3.4 Years waiting time for green card, employer-contaminated applications all time see high delays

The Green Card Apps see the highest delay in the second quarter of 2025 as the process time had reached 1,265 days or 3.4 years in 2016 as compared to 705 days (1.9 years). A new report by the think-tank Cato Institute revealed the figures. The analysis stated that it is an all -time high. According to the Cato Institute report, even applicants who pay $ 2,805 “premium processing fee”, waiting for about two years on average before exiting the government’s regulator Moras “. Newsweek reported that these waiting times are in addition to the time when applicants should wait to secure a cap slot – which is based on the numerical boundaries set by the government on the green card by the country and the category – as well as the pre -east months that can be done before the application can be done, the Newsweek said.The analysis broke how each stage of getting a green card has become more time -consuming between 2016 and 2025. For example, in 2016, wage assessment was used to take 2.5 months in 2016, but now it takes 6.1 months. “With a procedure, it is no surprise that more than 90 percent of employer-contaminated immigrants must be already in the United States to achieve sponsorship of employer certification process. These delays create a real requirement for employees to use H1B or other temporary task visas, which is before reaching a green card.” “America will lose global talent competition when other countries offer green cards in terms of a few weeks or months, not years. It’s time to fundamentally streamlines its legal immigration system for the US government and eliminate unnecessary, burden processes,” said this. The report states that some stages of the green card process are completely unnecessary. “Employees with a green card can interact impartially to wages as they can leave another employer to find. There is no reason for the need for recruitment of American worker as immigrants make a similar demand for American workers elsewhere in the economy. Employers can judge a worker’s merit that is better than a government unit. Health screening and background check of the workers who have been screening abroad and live in the United States over the years, just as absurd, is said to be.