Equal Access to Green cards for Legal Employment (EAGLE) Act of 2021

Last month U.S. Representatives Zoe Lofgren (D-CA-19) and John Curtis (R-UT-03) introduced H.R. 3648, the Equal Access to Green cards for Legal Employment (EAGLE) Act of 2021. The proposed legislation would phase out the 7% per-country limit on employment-based immigrant visas and raise the current 7% per-country limit on family-sponsored visas to 15%. A section-by-section summary is available here. 

Andrew Moriarty, Deputy Director of Federal Policy at FWD.us, has an excellent post on the EAGLE Act and why it is crucial for making the immigration system more efficient and fair. As Moriarty writes: “The bipartisan EAGLE Act is a commonsense solution to ensure that individuals and families aren’t forced to wait longer simply because of their country of origin, and would be a critical first step in reducing backlogs.”

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