Wednesday, May 5, 2021
USCIS expects to suspend biometrics requirements for H-4, L-2 and E-1, E-2, and E-3 Form I-539 applications beginning May 17, 2021, for at least 24 months. It will retain the discretion to require biometrics on a case-by-case basis.
The suspension is intended to eliminate the adjudication backlog that has prevented H-4 and L-2 spouses from receiving Employment Authorization Documents (EADs) in anything close to a timely fashion.
The suspension is expected to apply to these categories of Form I-539 applications if:
The application is pending as of May 17, 2021, and a biometrics appointment notice has not been received; or
The application is received by USCIS between May 17, 2021, and the expiration date of the suspension.
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On 02/18/2021, the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021 (Act) was introduced as companion bills in the Senate by Senator Robert Menendez and in the House by Representative Linda Sanchez. This article focuses only on provisions affecting the business community, both salutary and less favorable. It is unlikely to be passed in its entirety but, if broken down into palatable sections to make it through the House and Senate, there is bipartisan support for some of the Act’s proposed business immigration reform.
Proposed Provisions Favorable for Business
The Act would modestly increase the cap on employment-based green card visas available per year from 140,000 to 170,000. However, most of these would go to unskilled workers which are generally not Chinese or Indian beneficiaries where the worst backlogs occur.
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At the urging of President Biden, two members of Congress -
Senator Robert Menendez and Representative Linda Sanchez -
introduced companion 353-page bills last month in the Senate and the House entitled the U.S. Citizenship Act
of 2021.
Presented as a comprehensive modernization of our nation s
long outdated immigration laws, this proposed legislation -
uniformly lauded by Democrats and opposed by Republicans - features
many provisions that U.S. employers may welcome, including, as this
White House Fact Sheet details, a path to legal status,
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At the urging of President Biden, two members of Congress – Senator Robert Menendez and Representative Linda Sanchez – introduced companion 353-page bills last month in the
House entitled the “U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021.”
Presented as a comprehensive modernization of our nation’s long outdated immigration laws, this proposed legislation – uniformly lauded by Democrats and opposed by Republicans – features many provisions that U.S. employers may welcome, including, as this White House
Fact Sheet details, a path to legal status, employment authorization, and eventually, American citizenship, for some 11 million undocumented noncitizens; relief for Dreamers, persons in Temporary Protected Status, and immigrant farmworkers; and improvements to the legal, employment-based immigration system.
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