{"id":101682,"date":"2017-08-03T09:28:59","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T03:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=101682"},"modified":"2017-08-03T09:28:59","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T03:58:59","slug":"merit-based-immigrationtrump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/merit-based-immigrationtrump\/","title":{"rendered":"Merit based immigration:Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Donald Trump announced his support for a legislation that would cut in half the number legal immigrants allowed into the US while moving to a \u201cmerit-based\u201d system favouring English-speaking skilled workers for residency cards.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If passed by the Congress and signed into law, the legislation titled the Reforming American Immigration for Strong Employment (RAISE) Act could benefit highly-educated and technology professionals from countries like India.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The RAISE Act would scrap the current lottery system to get into the US and instead institute a points-based system for earning a green card.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Factors that would be taken into account include English language skills, education, high- paying job offers and age.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Green Cards provide permanent residency, work authorisation, and fast track to citizenship,\u201d Trump said at a White House event to announce his support to the RAISE Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump announced his support for a legislation that would cut in half the number legal immigrants allowed into the US while moving to a \u201cmerit-based\u201d system favouring English-speaking skilled workers for residency cards. If passed by the Congress and signed into law, the legislation titled the Reforming American Immigration for Strong Employment (RAISE) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2],"tags":[50373,1843,51090,51089,51091,507,51092,1233],"class_list":["post-101682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nri","category-top-stories","tag-allowed","tag-donald-trump","tag-legal-immigrants","tag-merit-based-immigrationtrump","tag-merit-based","tag-president","tag-raise","tag-us"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/immigration-announcement-president-accompanied-washington-senator-roosevelt_e112d3e0-77f6-11e7-83e1-68866f5cbeee.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}