Each year is capped at 65,000. for married children, it's just 23,400 a year. on top of that, there are caps imposed on countries of origin. there are waiting periods of up to 15 years to process an application for family members from india. 19 years for those coming from mexico. 23 years for families from the philippines. in fact the process takes so long that the number of family members still waiting their turn has jumped to a whopping 4 million applicants. at that rate it would take an awfully long time to build that chain the president keeps referring to. no matter how you slice it, we ar...