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Aug 21, 2019 · The Pew Research Center estimates there are 7.5 million unauthorized workers in the United States concentrated in agriculture, construction and the hospitality industry. In 2014, about 1.1 million ...
- Introduction
- What Are The Largest Foreign Worker Visa Programs?
- How Did The Temporary Worker Programs Start?
- How Have They Changed in Recent Administrations?
- What Is The Process For Getting A Temporary Work Visa?
- What Is The Debate Over These Programs?
- What Changes Did The Trump Administration Make?
- What Other Reforms Have Been proposed?
- How Did The Covid-19 Pandemic Affect These Programs?
- What Has Biden done?
Foreign workers have been an essential but contentious feature of the U.S. economic landscape for generations. Since the United States launched its first migrant labor program during World War I, Washington has struggled to balance the shifting needs of industry with the concerns of the domestic labor force. Meanwhile, the temporary worker debate h...
The number of visas issued as part of U.S. temporary foreign worker programs, classified as nonimmigrant visas, has risen sharply after the first years of the pandemic slowed the movement of international migrants: more than 984,000 such visas were granted in 2022[PDF], up from some 846,000 in 2019. The H1B, H2A, H2B, and H4 visas, the largest of t...
The earliest U.S. temporary worker programs, such as the Bracero Program, were established amid severe labor shortages during World War I and World War II to draw in hundreds of thousands of agricultural laborers, primarily from Mexico. It wasn’t until 1952, however, that lawmakers attempted to regulate these programs, consolidating them in the com...
Changes to major aspects of the programs, such as numerical caps and wage requirements, require congressional approval, but presidents have the authority to unilaterally change some regulations and can determine how federal officials implement them. “A lot of the latitude an administration has is in how carefully the requirements are enforced,” say...
Several executive branch agencies are involved in reviewing and approving petitionsfor temporary work visas, including the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Department of Labor (DOL), and the Department of State. Employers must obtain certification from the DOL and are required to show that there are no qualified or available U.S. workers ...
H1B. Criticisms of the program are many and varied. To some critics, the H1B program is too large, too small, too inflexible, poorly monitored, or overly regulated. Proponents say the program is necessary to make up for a shortage of qualified domestic applicants, particularly those with advanced technical degrees. They, along with some immigration...
President Trump pledged to reduce both legal and illegal immigration and implement a “merit-based” immigration system, though he failed to gain the support in Congress necessary to make such policy changes. In 2017, he issued an executive order directing federal agencies to evaluate immigration policies in order to protect U.S. workers and crack do...
Recent H1B bills have included proposals to permanently raise the numerical cap, impose additional requirements on companies planning to pay H1B workers less than $100,000, and reduce fraud and abuse. The latest bipartisan bill, reintroduced in 2023, aims to prioritize U.S.-educated H1B applicantsand close loopholes that have allowed the replacemen...
The onset of the pandemic and resulting shutdowns disrupted most temporary foreign worker programs. In March 2020, the State Department halted routine visa services at U.S. embassies and consulates, including for H1B visa holders, though efforts to resume services are ongoing in certain locations. However, officials continued to process H2 visas, e...
President Biden promised to restore the visa programs that Trump halted. In February 2021, Biden revoked an order implemented under Trump that froze the issuance of new green cards and halted certain types of visas, including those for H1B and H2B holders. He also unveiled a comprehensive immigration reform bill, which proposes making temporary wor...
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