With its long-term facilities for migrant children nearly full, the U.S. authorized facilities to pay for some of their travel to sponsors’ homes.As many as 120,000 family-based preference visas were lost largely because of the pandemic-related freeze in the 2020 budget year, according to the American Immigrant Lawyers Assn. Immigrants could not bring over family members unless they were U.S. citizens applying for visas for their spouses or children under the age of 21.
It also barred entry to immigrants with employment-based visas unless they were considered beneficial to the national interest, such as healthcare professionals. And it slammed the door on thousands of visa lottery winners who were randomly chosen from a pool of about 14 million applicants to be given green cards that would let them live permanently in the United States.
The blocked visas add to a growing backlog that has reached 437,000 for family-based visas alone, said California immigration lawyer Curtis Morrison, who represented thousands of people blocked by the freeze.“I’m thrilled for my clients who are now in a position that they can now enter the U.S.,” he said. “But that backlog will take years if the administration does not take ambitious measures.”
A federal judge last year issued a ruling that all but lifted Proclamation 10052 by allowing temporary foreign workers to enter the United States if their employers are members of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce or several other large organizations that represent much of the U.S. economy.Immigration lawyers said they were surprised Biden did not immediately lift the freeze like he did with Trump’s travel ban imposed against people from mostly Muslim-majority countries.
So much to undo!
dont give to fascist people,,, check their ideology
That's only fair.
Biden replacing the base that put him in office with a base that’s just happy to be a base and won’t ask for nothing. A snake is a snake, with or without venom.
brahmresnik Somewhere, in the deep, dark recesses of a fascistic black hole, Stephen Miller and his wife are screaming in pain & agony, shedding uncontrollable tears of misery, to the tune of the perfect silence of incandescent humanism.
It’s not like we are in a pandemic.
Yeah！
Yea part of his great make America last plan.
This man is nuts
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