Raj Karnatak, MD @raj_karnatak Twitter profile

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Raj Karnatak, MD

1 year

While I am still waiting in decades of inhumane green card backlog. I see physicians those came to the US a decade after me received their green card and many already citizens. I can’t change where I was born. US must stop country of birth discrimination in 2023. Happy New Year!!

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Raj Karnatak, MD

@raj_karnatak

3 years

My friend @pranav_singh_MD had to leave the US permanently with his family due to green card backlog. He severed on the frontline during pandemic and was languishing in backlog while @USCIS wasted 80 K green cards. What a reward of his service @USCISDirector @SecMayorkas @POTUS

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I live in a state of constant fear if will have to travel to India for a family emergency I won’t be able to return and will be separated from my family here in the US. Green card backlog is inhumane. People need to have dignity to travel. I have lived with this constant fear…

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4 months

Green card backlog is an absolute disgrace. Forcing people to tied to a job and no ability to travel even for family emergencies. As an ICU doc I took care of sickest of Americans during the pandemic. On many occasions I was scared if I will get sick or disabled what will happen…

Atal Agarwal 💜

@atalovesyou

4 months

When the high skilled Indians who follow the laws are disrespected in America, Americas character continues to go down in a gutter. Nothing left morally, economically or in terms of its ability to lead the world. America is just another country.

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@raj_karnatak

4 years

Inhumane face of GC backlog. My story is the same, wasted all my youth in this country, risking my life every day fighting this pandemic. Time to consider leaving this land.. @SenRickScott @senatemajldr @sendavidperdue @SenSchumer @SenMikeLee

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Frustrated of green card backlog I am already planning a start up in India. Dumping idea of buying a house in the US. @startupindia great initiative @PMOIndia

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@raj_karnatak

3 years

@POTUS I am a frontline healthcare worker living in the US legally from >10 years, abiding the law, paying taxes, contributing to society, risking my life on the frontline as an ICU doc and I am in decades of green card backlog. Why am I excluded? Why undocumented only?

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@raj_karnatak

4 months

I came to the US 15 years back as a physician. Served in hurricane Sandy to COVID-19 pandemic, risked my life for Americans during the pandemic now being rewarded with decades of inhumane green card backlog. Illegal aliens are crossing illegally and getting work permit and…

Maye Musk

@mayemusk

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In the early 1990’s, @elonmusk remember when I would drop you off at Toronto airport? Passport control wouldn’t let you into the USA because you were Canadian and had forgotten your pink slip, which verified you as a student at the University of Pennsylvania. I had to pick you…

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@raj_karnatak

3 years

Thought!! why I am begging politicians to end greencard backlog. Paid >1 million in taxes over 10 years, risked my life fighting pandemic on the frontline, stuck in 195 years of backlog that I will not survive. Why m I fighting? Because I can’t tolerate discrimination. @POTUS

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@raj_karnatak

10 months

am joining @anujchristian in Madison,WI to protest against country caps in EB green cards. #removecountrycaps #SaveAmerica

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@raj_karnatak

3 years

Between travel ban, green card backlog and work it feels I would never be able to see my family. It’s been > 2 years I haven’t seen my parents. I am happy for everyone who is able to unite with family. Pandemic is harsh but we shouldn’t have to suffer immigration torture. @POTUS

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Raj Karnatak, MD

@raj_karnatak

4 years

Only 36% immigrants coming to US has college degree. How fair it is to ask high skilled immigrants with doctorate degrees, high tech workers or physicians from India like me to wait for 195 years in GC line??everyone else gets in < 1year. Unblock #s386 @SenRickScott @SenMikeLee

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@raj_karnatak

1 year

@SecretaryPete There aren’t enough workers in the US to run the system effectively. We desperately need high skilled talent to run the country effectively. We must stop torturing high skilled immigrants in immigration deadlock.

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@raj_karnatak

1 year

#EagleAct is 1. Good for American workers 2. Good for high skilled immigrants from all countries 3. Bad for companies abusing H1B visa. 4. Excellent step towards fairness. 5. Will prove immigration reforms should be done in pieces. @LeaderHoyer @RepZoeLofgren . #YesHR3648

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Raj Karnatak, MD

@raj_karnatak

4 years

@ABC I am an infectious disease and ICU doc fighting this pandemic on the frontline, risking my life. Canceled vacation time to take care of critically ill.I am a legal immigrant,my wait time for green card is 195 years due to country of birth,stuck in GC deadlock/hell. @SenRickScott

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@raj_karnatak

1 year

Green card backlog pushing physicians out of the US when we are grappling with healthcare workforce shortage. @POTUS @WhiteHouse @USCISDirector @USCIS .

Upset by Green Card Backlog, This Indian Doctor Leaves USA and Moves Back to India

Dr. Pranav Singh, an Indian Pulmonologist from Iowa, took a flight back to India from USA before the interminable green card backlog would have decided his fate. Fed up of the waiting period for...

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Raj Karnatak, MD

@raj_karnatak

3 years

Finally able to visit parents after 2 years. Beautiful Uttarakhand!!

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@raj_karnatak

3 years

Tired of green card backlog, Indian doctor returns home for good

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@raj_karnatak

3 years

Just suggested my best friend let his father go as he is not going to survive COVID-19. He is stuck here in the US on H1B visa in green card backlog. He has to decide between his dying dad and mourning family or quitting his 20 years career. @POTUS @VP @CNN @FoxNews @CNBC

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@raj_karnatak

3 years

Thank you @elonmusk for recognising USA benefits greatly from Indian talent, unfortunately 1.2 M Indians are languishing in decades of inhumane green card backlog despite giving most productive years and risking our lives on the frontline @POTUS @VP @HouseDemocrats @SenateDems

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

3 years

@patrickc @ashleevance @paraga USA benefits greatly from Indian talent!

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@raj_karnatak

2 months

Why does @WhiteHouse @POTUS @VP behave they are not aware of decades of green card backlog for high skilled immigrants?

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@raj_karnatak

2 years

Although I wanted to be part of #ADayWithoutImmigrants but working in ICU all day, I cant abandon my patients. Important to understand the difference between humane behavior versus inhumane green card backlog @POTUS

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@raj_karnatak

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@elonmusk Despite giving my all youth years to US as a physician, serving in hurricane Sandy to COVID pandemic, risking my life for Americans during pandemic and paying millions in taxes I am stuck in decades of inhumane green card backlog. Legal immigration system is a disgrace. No…

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Raj Karnatak, MD

@raj_karnatak

3 years

@shahgm63 @frontline_in @Drahulkr @POTUS @SaveH4EADs @GCBCoalition @SenToddYoung @sendavidperdue @SenatorDurbin @SenWarren @SenateFloor @RepZoeLofgren @HouseFloor @USCIS @FLOTUS It’s a joke how high skilled immigrants are treated. I am an ICU doc and I didn’t have my drivers license for a week in July 2020, my H1B renewal was processing. I had to take a cab for work. Why would you take away drivers license of a frontline workers in the middle of pndemic.

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Raj Karnatak, MD

@raj_karnatak

11 months

Automatic Visa Revalidation should be extended to short visit to India with approved I-140 and a valid I797 and I94. This will take away lot of misery associated with decades of inhumane green card backlog. This will make it easier to go see family for an…

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Raj Karnatak, MD

@raj_karnatak

3 years

2020 the worst year. As an ICU doc I had been at bedside of so many dying patients to hold their hands. I am so worried about my old parents in India, learning few of their friends die of COVID. Being on visa makes incredibly difficult for me to go take care them if they need me.

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@raj_karnatak

8 months

H1B is not cheap labor. High skilled immigrants are contributing immensely to communities and economy. #endgreencardbacklog

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@raj_karnatak

5 months

7% country caps are like giving same amount of food to a mouse and an elephant and saying everyone gets equal amount. Country quotas in high skilled immigration are absurdly foolish and must go away.

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@raj_karnatak

1 year

#EagleAct is so bipartisan that even the extreme right and extreme left is divided in opposing of this bill. #EagleAct must pass. @POTUS @FLOTUS

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Raj Karnatak, MD

@raj_karnatak

2 years

Hospital in Iowa just told me they will likely close their ICU as they can’t find an intensivist. I have to say no to help them as I am in green card backlog& thousands of docs like me cant help due to being stuck in green card backlog. #fixgreencardbacklog it’s hurting Americans

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Raj Karnatak, MD

@raj_karnatak

3 years

Pleasant surprise got upgraded to first class for being frontline healthcare worker. Thank you @airindiain for recognizing frontline warriors. @airindiain have the best infection control measures so far all airlines I have flown, great service great people the maharaja of sky

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Raj Karnatak, MD

@raj_karnatak

10 months

Let me say this as clearly as I can: Lives in green card backlog matter. High skilled immigrants in green card backlog are also immigrants @POTUS

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@raj_karnatak

1 year

Who in the sane mind can oppose EAD for approved I-140 and waiting more than 5 years in green card backlog. It goes on to say people on this committee have no qualifications to be there. Many are confused and don’t understand the situation. Why the hell these folks there if they…

Rohit Sharma 🇺🇸🇮🇳

@DcWalaDesi

1 year

Nauheed Qureshi opposes it! 🙂 As she is not aware of the issue. Kevin Kim googled and is more confused! I feel for @ajainb

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@raj_karnatak

3 years

If high skilled immigrants are specifically excluded from budget immigration reconciliation it will have huge negative impact on India-US relations for generations to come. High skilled green card backlog affects only Indian community in the US. @SenatorDurbin @CongressmanRaja

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@raj_karnatak

2 months

Thanks ⁦⁦ @timesofindia ⁩ Over a million high-skilled Indians are waiting endlessly for employment-based green card - Times of India

Over a million high-skilled Indians are waiting endlessly for employment-based green card - Times...

US & Canada News News: Mumbai is witnessing a trend that is no longer surprising. It is a harsh reality that over one million Indians are still waiting in employment-based g

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

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@raj_karnatak

3 months

US takes 75% of high skilled immigrants from India and only allows 7% green cards to India due to country quotas. Is this equity??? Why no country quotas on H1B? Unfortunately no one really cares and people want to stay away from immigration. People don’t understand green card is…

Atal Agarwal 💜

@atalovesyou

3 months

Every Indian dreaming of America must read this: - 35% (1m+) students to US from India ~ 350k - 75% (85k) H1B to Indians ~ 63k (287k - have to pack their bags) - 7% (140k) green cards to Indians ~ 10k (1.8m+ Indians waiting for over 20+ years) challenges: - debt - $100k+…

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@raj_karnatak

3 months

High skilled immigrants from India in green card backlog feel cheated. They were brought in with the promise of American dream but American dream has turned into a nightmare of indentured servitude for 1.8 million Indians in the US. Learning lesson for every kid growing up in…

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Watch yet another testimony from a diligent, erudite, and proficient immigrant ensnared in the #greencardbacklog . While speaking, he choked up twice, recollecting his inability to visit his ailing parents, a story heard often too many times! Eager to make substantial…

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@raj_karnatak

3 years

#transition46 committed to help illegal immigrants, is there any plan to help frontline healthcare workers and their kids stuck in decades of green card backlog?How do you live in a society without voting rights,no job portability, cant travel even for family funeral for decades

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@raj_karnatak

2 months

As a high skilled immigrant in the US I am ashamed how high skilled immigrants are being tortured with decades of inhumane green card backlog with no desire to fix this issue. Even frontline workers those risked own lives during the pandemic are being rewarded with visa nightmare…

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@raj_karnatak

1 year

Indian Americans won’t get the respect they deserve until unless they stand up for their own community. If you can’t fight for your own community no one will respect you. How are people going to stand up for others? No one will trust you. It’s very simple. @IndianEmbassyUS needs…

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Well done @CongressmanRaja @RepLarryBucshon ! Such an important initiative that will transform the lives of so many immigrants looking for a fair chance at becoming Americans! #greencardbacklog reform is needed.

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@raj_karnatak

1 year

For more than a million high skilled immigrants American dream is turned into a nightmare!! #fixgreencardbacklog @POTUS @WhiteHouse

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@loveyoumykids

1 year

Story of many Indian born high-skilled immigrant stuck in 90+ years green card backlog due to discriminatory country caps in EB category. . @POTUS . @FLOTUS . @VP . @AliMayorkas . @WhiteHouse . @WHCOS . @DNC . @HouseDemocrats . @SenateDems . @GOP . @HouseGOP . @SenateGOP . @SenatorDurbin

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@raj_karnatak

1 year

As much as I support @immivoice efforts and appreciate all the hard work they have done over the years. @immivoice must change their style of advocacy and shouldn’t be burning all bridges they build over the years. Fierce criticism doesn’t have to be derogatory.

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@raj_karnatak

7 months

Green card backlog community can you please subscribe and follow @anujchristian he is bringing awareness to this issue. Remove Country Cap via @YouTube

Remove Country Cap

Spreading awareness about discriminatory country cap on skill based green cards for specialized jobs. On a mission to travel to all the 50 states of the United States, within a year beginning on 4th...

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@raj_karnatak

7 months

US has proved legal immigration is a failed concept. No one in their right mind should try this. I regret I did. I feel so sorry for this kid.

Senate Budget Committee

@SenateBudget

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Muhil has lived in the U.S. for nearly 20 years, but her future in this country is uncertain because of our broken immigration laws. “If I left the country, I don’t know when I’d be able to come back.” Her story is just one example and a reminder that #ImmigrationFuelsGrowth .

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@raj_karnatak

5 months

Unfortunately this remains true in 2024 while thousands jumped green card line front of me on the basis of diversity in high skilled immigration.

Raj Karnatak, MD

@raj_karnatak

1 year

While I am still waiting in decades of inhumane green card backlog. I see physicians those came to the US a decade after me received their green card and many already citizens. I can’t change where I was born. US must stop country of birth discrimination in 2023. Happy New Year!!

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@raj_karnatak

4 years

This is so wrong @SenRickScott wants to deport kids of hard working legal immigrants those who gave decades of most productive years of their life to America. No mercy to legal dreamers!! End green card backlog Unblock #S386 @SenMikeLee @immivoice @JoeBiden @realDonaldTrump

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Dear @SenRickScott Please #UnblockS386 and save #H4 kids because #S386IsGoodForAmerica #S386EliminatesDiscrimination

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@raj_karnatak

3 years

How do Americans communicate with gov in a democracy? Americans hate those cut line even at Starbucks and clearly want a fair and merit based immigration system. politicians opposing equality bill #HR1044 represent people or special interests? @SenMikeLee @RepZoeLofgren @JoeBiden

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@raj_karnatak

1 year

People who are opposing removal of country cap from high skilled immigration are not fighting for themselves. These folks already received their green cards with country quotas but they are fighting to keep quotas for future immigrants with the same race or skin color or same…

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@raj_karnatak

10 months

Reverse migration has truly started!!

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Life Update: My wife, @Rishita38770190 , and I have decided to move back to India, after a wonderful few years in the US. 🇮🇳 🚀 To build a cross-border platform that is attempting to bring the Eastern and Western worlds closer with talent & technology, there could be nothing…

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@raj_karnatak

4 years

@ABC @SenRickScott Just to clarify I am not an outlier there are around 15000 docs like me stuck in this deadlock. Where is the merit based immigration?? Everyone else gets green card in <1 year. @immivoice @SenMikeLee @SenRickScott

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@raj_karnatak

3 months

@atalovesyou Thanks for all your hard work. We will not accept to be discriminated. Right to freely travel to take care of a sick family member is taken away from 1.8 million high skilled Indians. There are visa hoops, work authorization delays, no embassy appointments, processing delays.…

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@raj_karnatak

11 months

If you can keep your job and move to Canada why not? What all moved to Canada with these 10K visa - 10K high skilled immigrants - 10K spouses (Most are more talented than primary applicant) - 10K jobs (most moving with their US jobs)+spouse jobs - At least 20K American jobs…

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America needs a shark tank visa. If an entrepreneur has a business that appeals to an investor, that investor should be able to sponsor them.

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@raj_karnatak

1 year

@maveinlux There is nothing to mock. I am no Modi supporter but I think he did a fantastic job that most Indian elites wouldn’t be able to do.

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@raj_karnatak

2 months

Green card backlog growing like a cancer. @POTUS @USCISDirector @SecMayorkas @WhiteHouse

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@raj_karnatak

1 year

I have started to learn anyone who says I am for comprehensive immigration reforms that means they are against any kind of immigration reform. We know immigration reforms can only be done in small pieces. @POTUS @SenSchumer

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@raj_karnatak

1 year

@POTUS While I am still waiting in decades of inhumane green card backlog. I see physicians who came to the US a decade after me already received their green card and many already US citizens. I can’t change where I was born. US must stop country of birth discrimination in 2023

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@raj_karnatak

10 months

I love this guy.

Rohit Sharma 🇺🇸🇮🇳

@DcWalaDesi

11 months

. @RepShriThanedar talks about how Canada is taking advantage of a broken US legal #Immigration system by offering open work permits to those in US with approved H1B’s waiting in #greencardbacklog at a Joint Subcommittee hearing on the Hill today. @ShriThanedar

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@raj_karnatak

1 year

We feel being stabbed in the back. Frontline healthcare workers dying in green card backlog. Please don’t kill #EagleAct #HR3648 Bring the bill for vote. @POTUS @SpeakerPelosi @LeaderHoyer @RepZoeLofgren @HouseDemocrats @WhiteHouse

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@raj_karnatak

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If US want to provide humanitarian assistance to illegal migrants Americans should pay for it not high skilled immigrants. This is fundamentally wrong. We have no rights in this country we shouldn’t be forced to pay for something we have noted voted for. Please someone take it to…

David J. Bier

@David_J_Bier

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The USCIS shakedown rule is finalized! Massive fee increases that USCIS characterizes as just keeping up with inflation. Note that the misleading fee table in the rule excludes $313 million in fees that legal workers will be paying for asylum seekers.

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@raj_karnatak

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No green card is one thing but no dignity to travel is disgrace. We must do better why can’t we understand high skilled immigrants are humans.

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@josephjsweeney

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Our Legal Immigration system must be fixed. These are the 7 policies I will spearhead if elected to Congress: 1. Expand H-1B visa program 2. Increase green cards for proven contributors 3. Remove green card country caps 4. Increase family-sponsored green card caps 5. Create a…

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@raj_karnatak

9 months

I don’t see a 7% country cap here

Griff Jenkins

@GriffJenkins

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**NEW VIDEO** FOX News sources capture a FerroMex train bursting with migrants out of Zacatecas heading to our southern border right now… cheering and clearly not heeding the message: “do not come” @FoxNews

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I agree 💯 with @VivekGRamaswamy The current system is un-American and inhumane to millions of high skilled immigrants in decades of immigration backlog. High skilled immigration is not based on your skill, the current system is based on your country of birth, quotas and lottery.

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@VivekGRamaswamy

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. @Politico tried to play “gotcha” by saying I want to gut the H1-B system even though my companies have used it to hire foreign graduates from top U.S: universities. Well, U.S. energy sector regulations are badly broken, but I still use water & electricity. Turns out I actually…

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If tech talent is so good for America why are we torturing H1B workers with decades of inhumane green card backlog? Illinois can’t fill >400,000 tech job openings and now looking to take advantage of big-tech layoffs to fill these spots. @POTUS @SenatorDurbin

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#Chicago Seeks to Lure Foreign Workers Laid Off by #Tech Giants

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2 years

Inhumane green card backlog must be resolved. When you working in the US for a decade and go see your family for a week suddenly you are an alien again. Either waive visa stamping for folks in decades of green card backlog or just stamp visa in the US.

Pranav Singh

@pranav_singh_MD

2 years

Forget Green card backlog, forget RACIST country caps in EB immigration. H1b professionals are fighting to be able to travel with dignity. Living >decade in US legally but risk getting stranded in India if you dare to go for a family emergency. 🧵

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High skilled immigrants with repeated H1 renewal paperwork.

Adi

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Intern with OSH records

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In this era of shortage of high skilled workforce this should be an easy fix but in reality fixing high skilled immigration seems the most difficult and the last priority. Not sure if system want me to work hard to deliver the best patient care and spend time to advocate to…

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New @CatoInstitute @David_J_Bier data shows that the wait time for Indian Nationals to get EB2/3 is 134 years. When taking into account mortality rate and abandonment it’s 54 years. This is a completely unfair and absurd system and needs change.

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@raj_karnatak

1 year

This needs immediate fix!!! @POTUS @USCISDirector

Frontline Healthcare Workers in Greencard Backlog

@frontline_in

2 years

@RepEspaillat @raj_karnatak Immigrant frontline healthcare workers risked their lives for Americans during the pandemic, torturing them with decades of inhumane green card backlog is a shame. This will go down as a dark chapter in American history.

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1 year

This is what keeps us going!!

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@raj_karnatak

2 years

One of the most honest voices you could hear regarding high-skilled immigrants in the US.

Congresswoman Deborah Ross

@RepDeborahRoss

2 years

The EAGLE Act will make our immigration system fairer and more equitable. This critical legislation takes vital steps to ensure more immigrant families in Wake County and across the country have the opportunity to pursue the American dream.

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@raj_karnatak

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@IndiainNewYork @Indra_Noooyi @DrSJaishankar @MEAIndia @EduMinOfIndia @binaysrikant76 @IndianEmbassyUS @CGI_Atlanta @cgihou I believe as Indians we have come to a stage where we should leverage our strengths as a nation. In the era of skilled workforce shortage we provide free stream of high skilled talent to the US from India without anything in return. This free tap needs to be tighten little bit or…

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"Reinstate visa stamping inside the U.S. to reduce uncertainty for immigrants seeking to travel abroad and to reduce the pressure on some U.S. consulates." @POTUS must do now on humantarian grounds while no immigration relief on site. @FLOTUS

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@raj_karnatak

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Happy Diwali!!

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@raj_karnatak

3 years

Remember green card backlog is a humanitarian issue, people need to travel freely and they have families. They can’t live in limbo forever. @USCIS @JoeBiden @SenMikeLee @RepZoeLofgren @drsanjaygupta @SpeakerPelosi @senatemajldr

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1 year

This is extremely discouraging. Sad state of Affairs. @USCISDirector @POTUS @WhiteHouse @WHCOVIDResponse

Rohit Sharma 🇺🇸🇮🇳

@DcWalaDesi

1 year

The Visa Bulletin further retrogresses employment based green cards for people of Indian Origin. EB2 is now, 1st Jan 2011 😖 Unless @POTUS & @WhiteHouse take action, life for Indian techies in US is destined to be a massive human rights disaster. @WHIAANHPI #greencardbacklog

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@raj_karnatak

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Why high skilled immigrants are treated as convicts on parole? Most of us lived here more than a decade and what paperwork verification we need to prove every few years we are not a threat. @USCIS @USCISDirector @POTUS @SecBlinken

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@NimeshPatel1983

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@VivekGRamaswamy @elonmusk @charliekirk11 @David_J_Bier @anujchristian @TuckerCarlson @USCIS @USCISDirector @atalovesyou For over 18 years, the US has been my home. I came here for higher education and have since built a rewarding career and family (spouse and US-born children).…

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@raj_karnatak

2 years

This is heart breaking and inhumane. Unfortunately still happening, more such stories are being created every day due to decades of brutal green card backlog. @POTUS @CNN @FoxNews @NBCNews

Improve The Dream

@ImproveTheDream

2 years

“I learned very young that every aspect of my life would be controlled by my status.” - Athulya Rajakumar (1/3)

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@raj_karnatak

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Any update on visa stamping inside the US? There was a talk about @TravelGov starting a pilot program this summer for visa stamping inside the US? The only good news on immigration I heard in more than a decade for people in decades of inhumane green card backlog. @USCIS …

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@raj_karnatak

7 months

@TravelGov can fix this by adding short trip to India on approved I140 automatic visa revalidation country list. This is already there for short trip to Canada, Mexico or neighboring islands.

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@raj_karnatak

2 years

A physician who has been vetted extensively during multiple H1B renewals, served the community >a decade including on the frontlines of pandemic, if priority date current why @USCIS is taking months to approve their green cards petition? What are they investigating?

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@raj_karnatak

3 years

This is so unfortunate. These kids have to suffer so much discrimination. Please listen to the struggle these bright kids going through. End green card backlog. Legal immigrants deserve dignity.

Sanjeev Ranjan

@loveyoumykids

3 years

Please listen my child struggle. I came to USA in 2007 for good life . If I knew that my child will aged out then I never came to USA. @POTUS Can you please change our future today through executive order @VP @SenatorDurbin @SenatorMenendez @FoxNews

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@raj_karnatak

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I will have to change my country of birth be there. That’s not humanely possible. Country of birth discrimination is a dark chapter in making in American history.

USCIS

@USCIS

6 months

“There’s no place like home” for these 105 #NewUSCitizens who took the Oath of Allegiance at Wichita State University last week. Congratulations to all!

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“US has no more room for legal immigrants” Gravitas: US green card backlog hits 1.8 million | Indians face waiting ... via @YouTube

Gravitas: US green card backlog hits 1.8 million | Indians face...

US green card backlog has git a record high of 1.8 million. 400,000 Indians will die before they ever get their green card. Is U.S' immigration system broken...

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@RIyengr 1. Why no country cap on H1B visa? 2. Next time someone diagnosed with cancer shouldn’t go see the oncologist with best outcomes but should seek most diverse oncologist. 3. High skilled green cards are small percent of more than a million green cards allotted every year on the…

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@raj_karnatak

5 months

I feel racism against Indians is socially acceptable norm that is why no one really cares if you discriminate against Indian born high skilled immigrants by using a law butchering equity in DEI. No DEI champions will ever speak against discriminatory country caps in high skilled…

Atal Agarwal 💜

@atalovesyou

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Exactly. A few people need to stand up against what America is doing by keeping a million legal immigrants in 100+ years of green card backlog and depriving them of their basic rights and it would be solved.

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@raj_karnatak

2 years

It’s a nightmare!! Every time I need visa stamping it turns into a nightmare. How are we supposed to see our family for family emergency? Why isn’t any accountability for this tragic so many high skilled immigrants going through. @POTUS @TravelGov

Deedy

@deedydas

2 years

1/9 Indians in the US on a work visa can't go home. There’s NO appointments. The now ~200k H-1B Telegram group is growing by 13,000 per month. Even with ~$40m in fees, the 5 VACs process ~10,000 a month. The next availability is ~2024! Here’s 6 stories from hurting families:

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This is hilarious but harsh reality of discriminatory immigration policies. We would allocate green card to someone who has never step a foot in America but a physician or a nurse already living in the US for decades and even after serving on the frontlines of pandemic being…

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@raj_karnatak

1 year

“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'” Martin Luther King Jr. In 2023 discriminating on where you were born is unacceptable and un-American.

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@raj_karnatak

1 year

Even AI can tell you green card backlog causing inhumane consequences to healthcare workers, their families and communities we serve. @frontline_in @POTUS @WhiteHouse @WHIAANHPI @ajainb Here is ChatGPT response

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@raj_karnatak

3 years

This has been always my worry if I become ill or die my family will get deported. Despite giving al working life years to the US. We remain in decades of immigration limbo. @POTUS plan for a humane immigration system but no hope for high skilled immigrants #endgreencardbacklog

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@S386Skilled

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H-1B Engineer Dies of Heart Attack, Leaving Family Vulnerable to Immediate Deportation to India via @IndiaWest

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@raj_karnatak

2 months

US has hugely benefited from tech revolution and contributions of 1.8 million high skilled immigrants in green card backlog can not be undermined by immigration limbo. It is unjust to torture hard working immigrants those have immensely contributed to the US economy in decades of…

Deedy

@deedydas

2 months

If it weren't for skilled immigration in the US: Google, Nvidia & Tesla wouldn't exist Microsoft, Adobe & Pepsi wouldn't have CEOs FB & Amazon wouldn't prosper I spoke to @aarthisrirampod about immigration in America — problems, solutions and more!

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@raj_karnatak

3 years

Heart breaking and unfortunate. High skilled immigrants are treated unfairly and kept in limbo forever. No one can justify inhumane green card backlog. COVID-19 is already harsh. I am a frontline critical care doc if my family needs me I have only one choice leave my job. @POTUS

Anirban Das

@anirb_das

3 years

Why are high skilled Indians living in the US for more than a decade penalized for going to India to care for their sick parents? The travel ban and a pandemic are 1-2 punches as Indians continue to live in temporary status. @AliMayorkas @POTUS @VP

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Raj Karnatak, MD

@raj_karnatak

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Where is stamping inside the US? Repeated vetting of people already lived in the US for decades and keep vetting them again and again and finding nothing. Who benefits from this? Can we allocate those resources to somewhere else more meaningful? Can just do background checks on…

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Raj Karnatak, MD

@raj_karnatak

2 months

Green card backlog and visa delays are two different things unfortunately both are nightmare for high skilled immigrants. @POTUS @TravelGov @StateDept @USCISDirector @ericgarcetti

Steven Brown

@AttyStevenBrown

2 months

Even more reason @StateDept needs to hurry up an expand state side renewals. If someone has to travel on an urgent basis they shouldn’t have to wait until SEPTEMBER to get a visa appointment. And god forbid it gets stuck with a frivolous Admin Processing or 221g. #DOSFail

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@raj_karnatak

1 year

These are high skilled immigrants legally brought in to the US with approved immigration petition. Saying US immigration system is broken is a joke. It’s a nightmare @PramilaJayapal @POTUS @WhiteHouse @USCIS @USCISDirector

Frontline Healthcare Workers in Greencard Backlog

@frontline_in

1 year

Millions May Die Awaiting Green Card Approval from U.S. System

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@raj_karnatak

3 years

Another example India is going through a COVID crisis, every day I think how can I volunteer but if I go don’t have visa to come back and embassy appointments not available. We are trapped. This can’t go like this, it’s not only affecting us but our ability to serve the humanity.

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2 years

Indians join ‘A Day Without Immigrants’ rallies across US

Many immigrants skipped work and spent no money on Valentines’ Day, one of America’s busiest commercial holidays

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Raj Karnatak, MD

@raj_karnatak

8 months

@elonmusk @mayemusk We are living example of this insane absurdity called green card backlog.

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People always ask me why do you care about green card backlog? You can buy a green card/ you have excelled in your field get a EB1 etc. listen to @atalovesyou this is like getting hit on pillar of your life and getting hit on pillar of life is not easy. This what I grew up…

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Raj Karnatak, MD

@raj_karnatak

3 months

@USCISDirector @CapitalFactory @sxsw Highly skilled individuals are stuck in decades of inhumane green card backlog. I am not sure how they were helped in last 4 years I don’t see any reduction in backlog:

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@raj_karnatak

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@DurbinHypocrite Because for me it’s not about green card it’s about our dignity. US should be thankful high skilled immigrants giving most productive years of their lives to this country but reality is we degrading and unnecessarily torturing high skilled immigrants in immigration deadlock.…

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