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Families Counted Together Stay Together: How to Eliminate Visa Backlogs

September 15, 2014 (1 min read)
"There is nothing in the Immigration and Nationality Act that requires each derivative family member to be counted on an individual basis against the worldwide and country caps.  That being so, President Obama tomorrow can issue an executive order providing that this long-established practice be stopped.  That single stroke of the pen would revolutionize United States immigration policy and, at long last, restore balance and fairness to a dysfunctional immigration system badly in need of both.  If all members of a family are counted together as one unit, rather than as separate and distinct individuals, systemic visa retrogression will quickly become a thing of the past.
We proposed this idea in our 2010 article The Tyranny of Priority Dates  long before it achieved the intellectual acceptance in many quarters that it now enjoys.  We are pleased to now find that President Obama is considering this proposal as part of the package of administrative reform measures he will unveil before the end of this year.  That this is so suggests the broad possibilities for change when the vigorous and disciplined exercise of executive initiative allows genuine progress to overcome the paralysis of political stalemate." - Gary Endelman and Cyrus D. Mehta, Sept. 15, 2014.
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