The present move, if it turns into law, will benefit thousands of highly-skilled Indian IT professionals who aspire to live and work permanently in the US.
Lifting the per-country cap on Green Card would mainly benefit high-tech professionals on H-1B work visas from countries like India, for whom the wait for Green Card is more than a decade.
Currently, most of the cards are issued based on family links and diversity visa, and a small section is given to people who are professionals, and highly skilled.
The H-1B visa, most sought-after among Indian IT professionals, is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers in speciality occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise.
The President's comments came amid tension over a caravan of an estimated 5,000 to 7,000 people, mostly from three Latin American countries, currently marching towards the southern US border of Mexico with the intention to enter the US.
