Freeze on green cards till October

Legal immigrants in the US are up in arms over the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) decision to freeze processing of green card applications till October.

The reversal of an earlier decision announced in June followed the realisation that the green card quota for the year was already used up.

“The sudden backlog reduction efforts by Citizenship and Immigration Services Offices in the past month have resulted in the use of almost 60,000 employment numbers,â€