US Immigration News

President-elect Joe Biden’s nomination to lead the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) already faces disqualification amid a US green card scandal. Senator Tom Cotton, Republican representative for the state of Arkansas, has accused Alejandro Mayorkas of ‘selling US citizenship to the Chinese.’

 

The Trump administration is set to impose temporary US visa bonds on visitors from more than 20 countries, including Iran, Myanmar and a number of African nations. The hardline US immigration measure could see visitors forced to pay up $15,000 in addition to other visa costs.

 

The rule is scheduled to take effect on Christmas Eve and run for six months. However, it remains to be seen whether President-elect Joe Biden will maintain the rule once he takes office in January 2021.

Following defeat in a US federal court in September to have undocumented migrants removed from the 2020 US Census count, Donald Trump has taken his case to the Supreme Court. Trump lawyers are preparing to defend his plans to exclude millions of undocumented migrants from the congressional apportionment process. 

 

United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced that it has reached its H2B visa cap for temporary non-agricultural workers for the first half of FY 2021. According to a press release issued by USCIS, November 16 was the final receipt date of new H2B visa applications requesting an employment start date before April 1, 2021.

 

The USCIS press release said: “Cap-subject H2B applications received after November 16 will be rejected.”

US President-elect, Joe Biden, has nominated Cuban-American lawyer, Alejandro Mayorkas, to run the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in a landmark mark move by the Democratic election winner. Mayorkas, who previously served as the DHS secretary under former US President Barack Obama, is among Biden’s first selection of Cabinet nominees.

 

Outgoing US President, Donald Trump, is planning to end US citizenship by birthright before he leaves office. Trump, who lost the US election to his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden – though he continues to refute the result - reportedly wants to strip US immigration rights from babies born to migrants in America.