Among the 29 lakh 31 thousand 260 green card recipients, there are many immigrants from countries including Nepal, Mexico, Cuba, India, Dominican Republic, China, Philippines, Vietnam, and Afghanistan.
The number of Nepalis who get green card (permanent resident card), which is considered very important for legal permanent residence in the US, is increasing every year. According to the data of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), a government agency that studies the legal process of immigration, from 2019 to 2023, 42,357 people received a green card, which is considered as an official permit for permanent residence in the United States after completing the legal process.
Most of the Nepalese got green card based on Diversity Visa (DV Lottery), Employment, Asylum, Extra Ordinary. Homeland Security has mentioned that Green Card will be provided by mentioning DV from DV Lottery, HWANB based on employment and EV based on Extra Ordinary visa. It is mentioned in the data that 10 thousand 201 in 2019, 7 thousand 847 in 2020, 7 thousand 309 in 2021, 8 thousand in 2022 and 9 thousand in 2023. The data from 2024 to date has not been officially released.
In the period of five years, 42 thousand 357 Nepalese people got a permanent residence permit in the US after completing the legal process, and 324 Nepalis were expelled from the US on the basis of illegal residence during the same period. According to the data of the US security agency, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), 162 were deported from the US in 2019, 97 in 2020, 23 in 2021, 28 in 2022, and 22 in 2023. According to Homeland Security, the United States has issued 29,31,260 green cards in the five-year period from 2019 to 2023.
In this period, immigrants from Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America are more likely to get green cards. According to the statistics, 295,310 in Asia in 2021, 414,950 in 2022, 418,930 in 2023, 66,210 in Africa in 2021, 89,670 in 2022, 15,550 in 2023 and 61,520 in 2021, 75,610 in 2022, 8,280 in 2023 were.
Similarly, in 2021, 240 thousand 440, 332 thousand 670 in 2022 and 450 thousand 311 immigrants from North American countries got green cards in 2023. Along with Nepal, many immigrants from Mexico, Cuba, India, Dominican Republic, China, Philippines, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Brazil, El Salvador, Colombia, Jamaica, Bangladesh, Venezuela, Nigeria, South Korea, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras and Peru are on the list to get green cards. In order to weaken the Green Card, which can be obtained by paying a very low fee after completing the legal process, the current President Donald Trump has already introduced the Gold Card policy.
President Trump is automatically pushing for the sale of $50 million worth of gold cards, aimed at making the world's wealthiest people permanent residents for business and high-level jobs. The gold card introduced by President Trump on February 25 with the claim that it will have a long-term effect on the American economy has been taken by 1,000 people on one day in the third week of March. US Commerce Minister Howard Lutnick claimed during a television interview that 1,000 people paid $500,000 per person in one day to purchase a gold card, and $5 billion was collected in the national treasury.
