Under current law. we recognize that parents are integral to the family structure and that they remain so even after their children have grown up. That has been our bedrock principle. As such. we correctly characterize parents as part of an immediate family which exempts them from the green card caps when applying for legal permanent residency. Unfortunately. under the grand bargain. it removes these individuals from the immediate relative category and sets an arbitrary. insufficient annual cap for green cards for the parents of United States citizens at 40.000. This is less than approximately a third of what last year was the number of visas for parents. It is less than half of the average number of visas issued in the past 6 years. By saying that parents are no longer members of the immediate family. I dont know how much more nuclear this family can continue to get under. particularly.
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