India, Dec. 23 -- Indian professionals, who have been stuck in long backlogs for US Green Cards, have been given a fortunate chance after years of stagnation amid Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration.

The pathway has been expanded for several employment-based applicants with two successive acts from the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). These include a key notification addressing filing flexibility and a substantially expedited January 2026 visa bulletin.

The January 2026 visa bulletin showed significant gains in a number of employment-based categories, with Indian applicants' EB-1 and EB-5 visas seeing the biggest improvements.

This update came after the December 2025 bulletin, which had already made incremental pro...