AAPI backs green card backlog bill |
The American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin announced recently that it supports a green card backlog bill specifically for Indian American physicians. In a letter distributed July 11 by AAPI legislative co-chair and AAPI governing body member Dr. Sampat Shivangi, AAPI said there is a green card backlog of physicians of Indian origin who are on H-1B visas serving underserved areas of the U.S. These physicians are going through second class citizen status, said Shivangi, in spite of being well qualified with top notch training from the best of the medical schools and hospitals. Many have been waiting for decades and have to compete with IT, other category and country based quotas. With the new immigration laws that are coming up many may lose their status and self deport, Shivangi wrote. In case they have to visit their motherland, there is uncertainty that when they return they may be denied entry. There is an estrangement feeling amongst this group. Shivangi added , AAPI is in the forefront to support the cause of these physicians for the last two years, having lobbied and campaigned for them with close to 40 U.S. congressmen and senators on Capitol Hill.
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