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The Fairness for High Skilled Immigrants Act or 'Equal Access to Green cards for Legal Employment Act or Immigration Visa Efficiency and Security Act is proposed United States federal legislation that would reform U.S. immigration policy, primarily by removing per-country limitations on employment-based visas, increasing the per-country numerical limitation for family-sponsored immigrants, and ...
The bill proposed amending the Immigration and Nationality Act's Section 245, which concerns adjustment of status—the process by which a noncitizen already in the United States can acquire lawful permanent residency, commonly known as "green card" status, without having to travel abroad and receive an immigrant visa from a US consular post ...
[72] [73] On January 23, 2021, Biden introduced the immigration bill to Congress, however it was not passed. [74] As introduced, the bill would have given a path to citizenship to 11 million undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States. The bill also would have made it easier for foreign workers to stay in the U.S. [2] [75] [76]
A bipartisan immigration bill hammered out in the U.S. Senate includes a provision that would eliminate a major hurdle faced by Cuban migrants coming through the U.S.-Mexico border, and that so ...
The House of Representatives passed the Laken Riley Act 264-159. Some critics say it could pose a threat to civil liberties while supporters say it will make the U.S. safer.
The bill was a product of bipartisan cooperation among Senate lawmakers, business groups, labor unions, agricultural interests, and immigration advocates, who negotiated many compromises resulting in an architecture for reform – including a path to citizenship for eleven million illegal immigrants, a temporary worker program, increased visa ...
Former President Donald Trump said in an interview posted Thursday he wants to give automatic green cards to foreign students who graduate from U.S. colleges, a sharp departure from the anti ...
[43] [44] The RAISE Act seeks to reduce levels of legal immigration to the United States by 50% by halving the number of green cards issued. The bill would also impose a cap of 50,000 refugee admissions a year and would end the visa diversity lottery. A study by Penn Wharton economists found that the legislation would by 2027 "reduce GDP by 0.7 ...