1.5 million apply for U.S. migrant sponsorship program with 30,000 monthly cap

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-migrant-sponsorship-program-cuba-haiti-nicaragua-venezuela-applications/

 

News indicated that as of the end of last month, the agency was receiving an average of nearly 12,000 applications per day from those seeking to sponsor Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans, calling the number "overwhelming." The documents noted that less than three days' worth of applications were processed per month due to the 30,000 monthly cap.

More than 100,000 migrants have arrived in the U.S. under the sponsorship initiative. But the government was overseeing more than 580,000 pending cases for Haitians, more than 380,000 for Cubans, nearly 120,000 for Venezuelans and more than 20,000 for Nicaraguans at the end of April. Other cases were being reviewed or had been approved. 

 

So what do these numbers mean, every 2 1/2 days they receive a months worth of applications. 15,000 are dealt with on the basis of when they were filed the other 15,000 of the monthly allocation are allocated on a random basis.

 

If they stopped it now it would take 4 years to clear current applicants..

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I'm surprised that the number of Venezuelans is so low.

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It may be related to the diaspora in the US and how organised they are?

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