President Biden’s Immigration Plans

President Biden has stated that he intends to immediately send a bill to congress proposing many promising and bold immigration reforms.

President Biden’s plan includes:

• Temporary residence for DREAMERS (DACA holders) for five years followed by naturalization in three years.
• Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders to receive permanent residence.
• Doing away with the three and 10 year bars of inadmissibility for people who have accrued unlawful presence in the U.S.  This would open a path for undocumented and visa overstays to obtain permanent residence without the need to file hardship waivers.
• Reducing backlogs for family immigration categories typically backlogged for many years.
• Removing the one year filing deadline to apply for political asylum.
• Increasing asylum availability for victims of domestic violence.
• Removing travel bans based on religion or race.
• Reforms for business visas to speed the process and increase availability.

It is important to note that the immigration plan is just that a plan and nothing has been passed into law.   The process to make the plan a reality could take many months of compromise and could look very different at the end of the day.

Please call us at Gladstein & Messinger, Queensimmigrationlaw.com, at 718-793-7800 if you have any questions about the new immigration laws.

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