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Twenty years of the OCI card: live, work, and invest in India — but never vote. Why India grants its diaspora nearly everything except political voice.
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$125 billion a year — more than FDI, from the Gulf to New Jersey. India's remittances flow invisibly through acts of obligation, love, and calculation.
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The 7% per-country cap gives India ~10,000 green cards yearly. Over a million Indians wait in decades-long limbo — and America is losing them.
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Indians get ~70% of H-1B visas while the green-card backlog stretches decades. As US restrictions tighten, the IT model built on visa arbitrage is ending.
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