Number of foreigners who immigrated to the United States

The immigration policy of the United States began to relax, and it is planned to hire10.5 million foreigners again. Let's take a look at the overseas migration network.

American officials announced a decision on Monday 17 local time, saying that the United States needs more foreign workers to keep some American companies running.

According to the US media 17, the US Department of Homeland Security said that they would grant an additional15,000 H-2B visas so that the company could hire more non-agricultural temporary foreign workers before the fiscal year of September 30th. Secretary of Homeland Security John? Kelly said in a written statement that this "increase is one-off".

According to the report, the Trump administration has promoted the policy of "hiring Americans", and President Trump has repeatedly called for more restrictions on immigration. A reporter asked that the government decided to allow more foreign workers to enter the United States. How does this support American employment? A spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security said that without additional foreign workers, American enterprises may suffer "irreparable harm".

These visas are non-immigrant visas. In order to hire foreign workers, enterprises must prove that they can't find enough "capable, willing, qualified and employable" American workers to do certain jobs.

The annual quota of the American H-2B program is 66,000 new visas, of which 33,000 are reserved for workers employed in the first half of this fiscal year (March 10 to 3 1), and the rest are used in the second half of this fiscal year (April 1 to September 30). However, according to the data of the State Council, some employees who have returned to work can participate in the H2B project beyond the quota, which increased the number of H2B visas issued last year to nearly 85,000.

However, Congress did not extend the tax exemption plan for returnees after it expired last autumn. The US media said that this actually severely restricted the existing visa quota. Companies that rely heavily on seasonal employees, such as tourism, say they have had difficulty filling job vacancies since then.

According to the budget bill passed in May, the US Congress gave the Department of Homeland Security, the superior unit of the US Citizenship and Immigration Service, discretion to exceed 66,000 visas to solve the shortage of personnel.