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Q: It is no secret that Trump and Biden have starkly different views on immigration laws and policies. Now that President Biden is in charge, how have things changed? What impact has there been on employers and their employees in the U.S. under employer-sponsored visas?
A: There are several key changes for employers to note:
Revocation of Trump’s “Buy American Hire American” (BAHA) Executive Order
Since former President Trump signed the BAHA executive order on April 18, 2017, it became the backbone of many of the immigration-related policies passed during his time in the Oval Office, including: (1) rescission of U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS)’s deference policy that made it less burdensome to obtain approvals on extension filings that were previously reviewed and approved; (2) issuance of an H-1B Third-Party Worksite Memorandum, which heightened the scrutiny on IT consultants and other similar c
With Nearly Half of U.S. Farmworkers Undocumented, Ending Illegal Immigration Could Devastate Economy
On 4/21/21 at 12:38 PM EDT
As heated conversations about U.S. immigration focus on migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border, a quiet scenario plays out on farms across the country thousands of undocumented workers tending and picking the crops put food on American tables and fill cargo ships that supply the world.
America s reliance on migrant agricultural workers is a secret hiding in plain sight.
In New York s Hudson Valley, a historic apple farm utilizes a legal process for hiring migrant workers the H-2A Temporary Agricultural Workers program. It enables Minard s Family Farm to legally hire migrants on a seasonal basis, and includes protections for both migrant and domestic workers that can result in fines if violations occur.
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden meets Pope Francis after both leaders spoke at a conference on adult stem cell research at the Vatican April 29. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
As Joseph R. Biden Jr., the second Catholic president in U.S. history, continues to fill out his administration, a number of important executive and ambassadorial nominees will go before the Senate. One position of particular interest for American Catholics is the U.S. ambassadorship to the Holy See.
Since 1984, the United States and the Holy See have maintained formal diplomatic relations, building on a fraught history of relations going back to the Washington administration. Mr. Biden, who keeps a photo of himself and Pope Francis on a table behind his desk in the Oval Office, is likely to consider several factors in his decision, including what priorities Mr. Biden would seek to emphasize with the Holy See, the expertise and familiarity with the church of the candidates and what message Mr. Biden wants to send to
MEMBERS of the Bangladesh Muslim Community are suffering too, Muhammad Rafiqul Hassan said.
Typhoons Soudelor and Yutu, which battered Saipan in 2015 and 2018, affected everyone, including workers on CW-1 permit, but many were not eligible to receive any assistance from the CNMI government or the Federal Emergency Management Authority, said Hassan, speaking on behalf of the BMC.
Amid the Covid-19 pandemic that has shut down the tourism industry since last year, Hassan said CWs are, again, not eligible for many federal relief programs.
âWe are asking the Office of the Governor, and the Office of the CNMI Delegate to the U.S. Congress to help all lawful residents of the CNMI, including CWs, who are losing jobs and income because of this pandemic.â
Tuesday, March 9, through Thursday, March 25 (noon Eastern time), is the H-1B “professional” registration period for employers hoping to obtain work authorization of up to three years.