20 18 in-depth interpretation of American immigration policy

US President Donald Trump announced a skill-based immigration reform proposal at the White House: an immigration system reform bill aimed at strengthening the US economy. 20 18 what is the immigration trend in the United States? Let's talk about the in-depth interpretation of the 20 18 American immigration policy. Let's take a look together.

1, a major reform in the past half century

Trump called this immigration bill a major immigration reform in the United States for half a century.

Let's review the main contents of the bill first:

Trump claims that the new immigration bill will completely abandon the previous immigration policy and replace the current "low-end immigration system" with the "merit-based points system", which will be tilted towards applicants with higher education level and skill level. Once passed, the current annual green card issuance of about1100,000 will be halved.

In addition, for relative immigrants, although priority will still be given to immediate family members of American residents, including spouses and children, the issuance of green cards to other family members, including adult children of American residents, will be suspended. The new bill also limits the number of refugees to 50,000 per year and cancels the DV-20 19 visa.

2. Impact on EB-5 investment immigrants

The new bill changes the whole employment-based immigrant visa category into a scoring system, sharing an annual visa quota of 654.38+0.4 million, which remains unchanged from the current quota and has no specific category (EB-65,438+0/2/3/4/5).

In the scoring system, highly educated talents can get the highest score of 13; Outstanding talents, such as Nobel Prize winners, can get 25 points, and Olympic champions can get 15 points.

If the investment immigrant amount is $6.5438+0.35 million for three years, score 6 points; if the investment immigrant amount is $6.5438+0.8 million for three years, score 654.38+0.2 points. It is equivalent to winning half a Nobel Prize or an Olympic silver medal!

3, unexpected, reasonable

Once Trump's latest bill was announced, it immediately caused an uproar. I want to say that the bill is actually "unexpected and reasonable".

The "merit-based points system" has stricter screening requirements for immigrants, which will benefit those applicants who can speak English, have independent economic ability and have the skills of "improving the American economy", and these people will get higher scores. This shows that the new bill aims to protect the welfare of legal immigrants and improve the quality of new immigrants. At the same time, the number of foreign workers entering the United States should be controlled to avoid competing with Americans for job opportunities, thus ensuring the employment opportunities, salary levels and safety of Americans.

Trump made many remarks about reducing immigration during the US presidential election earlier. The new bill announced this time is another embodiment of the core of his "America first" policy.

I have to remind you again that the core of EB-5 project is to create jobs for Americans and boost the American economy.

As a developer from new york, Trump can't be unaware of the positive promotion of EB-5 investment to the American economy. First of all, he is not against immigration, but against illegal immigration. Secondly, he focused on reducing the low-skilled immigrants who have little impetus to American economic growth and low value content, but account for a relatively heavy proportion of millions of new immigrants every year. As long as you understand these two points, it is not difficult to understand Trump's drastic reforms.

It is imperative to raise the investment price.

It is worth noting that in this proposal, Trump adjusted the investment quota of investment immigrants to $654.38+$0.35 million and $6.5438+$0.8 million mentioned in the latest EB-5 reform bill of the Immigration Bureau this year.

After all, since the establishment of 1990, the minimum investment of EB-5 in the United States has never been adjusted after years of ups and downs by two factions on Capitol Hill and endless reforms by the former Obama administration.

This means that the surge in investment may become a reality. The details of the new bill suggest the Trump administration's determination and support for the Immigration Bureau to reform investment immigration. Everything is not on paper!

But for EB-5 investors, there is still a golden window for investment. In the United States, it takes a lot of complicated procedures and time for a bill to become law.

First, the bill came out->; After repeated revisions, the bill was generated-> Approved by the Legislative Council->; The Senate voted-> The House of Representatives voted to pass-> The president finally signed it into law, and the bill is still in the first stage.

In addition, given that there are a series of proposals in Congress at present, it means that the new bill promulgated by the President of the United States will not land in the short term.