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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Serious question: who sets the number of green cards allowed each year?  Is it the Congress or the Executive Branch?[/quote]

Green cards is not the thing that is limited. You are either eligible for a green card or not. The executive branch limits the amount of visas issued for all the different ways you can enter (other than tourism which isn't really limited). So executive branch limits # of refugees, # of H-1bs, # of H-2bs etc. Some statuses don't have limits, usually because they aren't used all the time like a K visa or a O visa.

I[b]f you are eligible to adjust to become a legal permanent resident you can apply for a green card but there isn't a cap on green cards in a specific year like there is a cap on other types of status.[/b] [/quote]

I don't think you're right about this.  I've seen a list of the number of green cards that can be issued - by country.  Not sure which agency establishes that list. [/quote]

Yes as I put in my follow up there are per country limits. But it not the same as the cap that certain statuses get. Per USCIS:

[quote]The maximum number of family-sponsored and employment-based preference visas that can be issued to citizens of any country in a fiscal year. The limits are calculated each fiscal year depending on the total number of family-sponsored and employment-based visas available. No more than 7 percent of the visas may be issued to natives of any one independent country in a fiscal year; no more than 2 percent may issued to any one dependency of any independent country. The per-country limit does not indicate, however, that a country is entitled to the maximum number of visas each year, just that it cannot receive more than that number. Because of the combined workings of the preference system and per-country limits, most countries do not reach this level of visa issuance.[/quote]

So I guess if you add up all the per country limits you have the max # of greencards but we never really get there although a specific country might max out its visas.[/quote]

o.k., thank-you. USCIS, is that some independent commission?[/quote]

JFC. You have opinions on immigration and don't know that USCIS is the Unites States Citizenship and Immigration Services agency? The sister agency to ICE and CBP that administers benefits? This is why it is so difficult to take people seriously in this debate.[/quote]

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