The Trump Administration announced this Thursday that it will extend until March 31, 2021, the prohibitions related to residence permits or
green cards
that are requested from abroad and the freezing of certain types of work visas, a measure that the White House imposed. under the justification of the coronavirus pandemic.
These bans significantly toughened legal immigration to the United States.
The extent of its effect is consistent with the outgoing president's hard-line stance on immigration issues.
It is not clear if
or when
President-elect Joe Biden would lift the measures
after he takes office on January 20.
Your transition team's immigration platform doesn't specifically address the issue.
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In April, Trump imposed a ban on foreign-issued green cards, which mainly benefited family members of people already in the United States.
Later in June, the White House also restricted H-1B visas (widely used by American and Indian tech company workers and their families), H-2B visas (for seasonal non-agricultural workers), J visas -1 (for cultural exchange), and L-1 visas (for managers and other key employees of multinational corporations).
With information from The Associated Press
