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Keeping true to the February executive order, "Restoring Faith in Our Legal Immigration Systems and Strengthening Integration and Inclusion Efforts for New Americans," the Biden-Harris.
The IFR, published in October 2020, called to bring about changes in the definitions of ‘third-party worksite, employer-employee relationship and specialty occupation, all of which would have restricted the ability of services companies to place H-1B visa holders at client or third-party worksite, impacting Indian companies.
Recently proposed immigration legislation and other Biden administration actions that suspended or reversed Trump-era orders affecting noncitizens are reforms that may provide stability for some employers of foreign nationals while creating new difficulties for others, says Eleanor Pelta at Morgan Lewis.
President Biden’s Proclamation Rescinds the “Muslim Ban”
On his first day in office, President Joe Biden signed Proclamations 9645 and 9983, which immediately ended earlier executive orders and presidential proclamations that prevented certain individuals from entering the United States, mostly from Muslim countries, commonly referred to as the “Muslim Ban.” The ban suspended U.S. embassies from issuing both immigrant (i.e., U.S. permanent residency applications, also known as “green cards”) and nonimmigrant visas for nationals of Buran, Eritrea, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Libya, Nigeria, North Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Venezuela, and Yemen. Those wishing to apply for visas may now do so at the appropriate U.S. consulate.