What is the latest immigration policy in the United States in 2022?

On June 17 and June 18, the director of the US Immigration Bureau and federal customs officials attended the annual meeting of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, and some new policies and developments were worthy of attention.

Reduce the difficulty of examining applications in unconventional fields in EB-1A.

The first good news is that it will relax the difficulty of examining applications in unconventional fields in EB- 1A, especially for entrepreneurs, and appropriately relax the difficulty in six aspects: awards, membership, original value, leadership, media reports, and publishing papers.

Relax the difficulty of EB- 1A audit.

Efforts made by the US Immigration Service to ease the backlog

In the past two years, the US Immigration Bureau has been under great financial pressure and the federal financial support is limited. The epidemic caused many immigration officials to leave their posts, and immigration applicants continued to file lawsuits against the immigration bureau. Just paying the lawyer's fee for the lawsuit makes the immigration department overwhelmed. Therefore, the Immigration Bureau has made some changes, such as speeding up the processing of backlog cases: the US Immigration Bureau will plan to introduce a time control indicator called cycle time to draw up trial progress indicators for different applications. It is planned to achieve these targets before the end of fiscal year 2023, in which the departure permit plan will control the trial time within three months, and the trial time for I-485 and I-526 approval will be controlled within six months.

Expand the scope of application for expedited processing: EB- 1C corporate executives and NIW national interest exemption in EB-2 can apply for expedited processing, with a cost of 2,500 US dollars and a processing time of 45 days. At the same time, I-765 form expedited service for some work cards has been added. The application fee is $65,438+0,500, and the processing time is 30 days.

Expand the scope of work permits in some industries: In recent months, the US Immigration Service began to simplify many EAD work card processes, including extending the validity period of some EAD work cards and providing accelerated work authorization updates for health care and child care workers.

In addition to a series of policies to ease the backlog, the US Immigration Service also plans to recruit 25%-30% more people to handle immigration cases. At present, the staff in Washington, D.C. have already worked for other departments of the Immigration Bureau, and it is expected that 95% of the recruitment will be completed by the end of this year.