March 5, 2019 - Issue: Vol. 165, No. 39 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 1st Session

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From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  FAIRNESS FOR HIGH-SKILLED IMMIGRANTS

  (Mr. LANGEVIN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LANGEVIN. Madam Speaker, we often hear about the immunotherapy 
revolution, medicine's next frontier, which is right now, for extending 
or even saving lives. Dr. Sadhak Sengupta and his wife, Sudarshana, two 
talented scientists from Rhode Island, are on the cutting edge of this 
research.
  Dr. Sengupta is the director of brain tumor immunotherapy research at 
Rhode Island Hospital and an assistant professor at Brown University. 
He has been working as a scientist in the United States since 2002, and 
he holds numerous patents.
  Despite these achievements, Dr. Sengupta has been unable to get a 
green card simply due to the country of his birth, India. For years, we 
have reached the per-country cap on employment-based green cards for 
India, and the current backlog is, right now, measured in decades.
  Sadhak and Sudarshana dream of launching a startup, but 17 years 
after moving to this country, they still live in uncertainty. Madam 
Speaker, that is why I support the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants 
Act, a bill to remove per-country green card caps and treat all 
immigrants equally.
  It is the right thing to do for the Senguptas and for all Americans 
and their families who will benefit from their research and their 
greatness of spirit.

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