According to David Bier, director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute, adjustment of status has been used by more than half of all legal immigrants over the past generation. There are currently around one million pending applications for adjustment of status already in the system. According to a Forbes report, in the year 2023, more than 1.3 million Indians were stuck in the green card backlog. USCIS data from the same year reveals that around 7 percent of green cards went to Indian passport holders that year. The change in policy, will naturally impact many Indians who are currently in the US.
