Keep the world’s best talent building here.

America wins when the most talented people in the world choose to build their futures, and their companies, on our soil. RHC fights for a legal, merit-based system that ends the backlog and rewards the rules.

In short

RHC champions merit-based, high-skilled legal immigration: clearing the million-plus green-card backlog, protecting “DALCA” children who arrived legally, and keeping H-1B and EAD talent in America, sharply distinct from illegal border crossing.

Where things stand

The challenge in front of us.

More than a million high-skilled immigrants, many of them Indian, are trapped in an employment green-card backlog that can run for decades. America educates and employs this talent, then risks handing it to competitors abroad.

Roughly 600,000 green-card-backlogged high-skilled immigrants are waiting in line, many for decades.
Their children, “DALCA,” legal childhood arrivals, age out at 21 and are forced to self-deport; tens of thousands have already left.
Per-country caps punish applicants purely for being born in a large country like India.

Where RHC stands

Legal, merit-based immigration is an engine of American prosperity. People who followed every rule should not wait decades, or watch their children deported. This is about rewarding the rule of law, not open borders, which RHC firmly opposes.

The RHC solution

What we’re fighting for.

Clear the employment green-card backlog and lift the per-country caps.
Grant permanent relief and a path for DALCA children who arrived legally.
Protect and modernize the H-1B and EAD programs for high-skilled workers.
Keep the talent America educates, don’t train the world’s best and send them home.

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Trump will push for merit-based immigration reforms, feels Shalli Kumar

A syndicated report said Shalli Kumar expects Trump to advance merit-based immigration reforms in a second term. He argued Republican leaders have long supported legal, merit-based immigration and said Trump wants to keep skilled people who belong in the US.

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Trump is totally pro-India, says close aide Shalli Kumar

In a cover interview with The Week, Shalli Kumar said Trump is totally pro-India and a close friend of Prime Minister Modi. He argued Republicans support legal, merit-based immigration and cast himself as the main architect of Trump's Indian American outreach.

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Shalli Kumar weighs JD Vance's India connection and the Hindu vote | CNN-News18

Shalli Kumar tells CNN-News18 that JD Vance's selection as running mate, and his wife Usha Vance's Indian Hindu heritage, resonates with Indian American voters. He connects the ticket to Hindu American concerns like the green card backlog and closer US-India ties under Trump.