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<ul><li><keyword id="9349622" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="the-us-department-of-homeland-security">The US Department of Homeland Security</keyword> is planning to introduce temporary modifications to F-1 &amp; <keyword id="9535479" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="m-1-nonimmigrant-visas">M-1 nonimmigrant visas</keyword>. </li><li>The development will allow universities and institutions to provide a blended learning experience — both in-person and online — so as to meet the requirements for <keyword id="9535478" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="nonimmigrant-student-status">nonimmigrant student status</keyword>. </li><li>This will let the foreign students continue their education in the United States, ANI reported. </li><li>The international students can apply for two types of student visas to study in the US — M-1 nonimmigrant visa and <keyword id="9535480" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="f-1-nonimmigrant-visa">F-1 nonimmigrant visa</keyword>.</li></ul>In a bid to provide flexibility to non-immigrant students, the US Department of Homeland Security is planning to introduce temporary modifications to F-1 &amp; M-1 nonimmigrant visas — which are granted to foreign students pursuing academic or vocational studies in the US — for this <keyword id="1601040" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Fall-semester">fall semester</keyword>. The development will allow universities and institutions to provide a blended learning experience — both in-person and online — so as to meet the requirements for nonimmigrant student status. This will let the foreign students continue their education in the United States, ANI <a href="https://twitter.com/ANI/status/1280677472158150656?s=20">reported</a>. However, students will still be required to have a visa and may face travel or other visa restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic. In a recent tweet, US President <keyword id="6354484" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Donald-Trump">Donald Trump</keyword> said that schools must open in the fall. The government added that social distancing measures should be strictly enforced across the operating campuses in the country. This comes on the backdrop of the latest amendments introduced by the US government for students as campuses shift to a remote learning model. On July 7, The Trump administration announced that the international college students who are taking classes online will not be permitted to stay in the US on a student visa. "Nonimmigrant students within the United States are not permitted to take a full course of study through online classes. If students find themselves in this situation, they must leave the country or take alternative steps to maintain their nonimmigrant status such as a reduced course load or appropriate medical leave,” the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement earlier <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/international/news/ice-says-international-students-taking-online-courses-have-to-transfer-or-leave-the-us-as-dozens-of-schools-shift-to-remote-learning-in-response-to-covid-19/articleshow/76824683.cms">said</a>. The international students can apply for two types of student visas to study in the US — <a href="https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/642-f-1-and-m-1-nonimmigrant-students">M-1 nonimmigrant visa and F-1 nonimmigrant visa</a>. The M-1 nonimmigrant visa is extended to those applying vocational or non-academic studies. While the M-1 nonimmigrant visa is granted to students pursuing language courses or other academic training in the country. In the meantime, the Trump administration is also cracking down on the work visas granted to the international employees working in the US — calling them a ‘threat’ to American jobs. This was after the unemployment rate in the US surged to a new high. See also: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/apps/news/elyments-dips-to-3-5-stars-on-google-play-store-heres-what-analysts-believe-indias-new-social-network-needs-in-order-to-be-successful/articleshow/76845819.cms">Elyments dips to 3.5 stars on Google Play Store — Here's what analysts believe India's new social network needs in order to be successful</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/covid-19-airborne-transmission-cant-be-ruled-out-says-who/articleshow/76845663.cms">Covid-19: Airborne transmission can't be ruled out, says WHO</a>

US student visa restrictions may be eased slightly to help foreign non-immigrant students

<ul><li>A new policy announcement by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) says foreign students in the US will be forced to leave the country or transfer to another college if their universities offer only online classes this Fall.</li><li>ICE is now turning the screws on universities to re-open despite the coronavirus roaring back across 40 of 50 states.</li><li>The Trump administration says it had allowed only a "temporary exemption" for online courses limited to the spring and summer semesters.</li></ul>International students in the US are panicking and universities are scrambling to make sense of a new policy announcement by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that says foreign students in the US will be forced to leave the country or transfer to another college if their universities offer only online classes this Fall. "Nonimmigrant F-1 and M-1 students attending schools operating entirely online may not take a full online course load and remain in the United States", the first line of the July 6 statement says. Officials in the International Students Office at the University of Southern California told IANS they are still "analysing the new information" and swamped by a flood of enquiries from worried students. According to immigration attorney Cyrus Mehta, the latest one pager policy announcement means three things: Students enrolled in US universities that are moving to an online-only education model will be barred from getting F-1 visas, they will be stopped from entering the US on F-1 visas and not allowed to maintain F-1 status in the Fall semester. ICE is now turning the screws on universities to re-open despite the coronavirus roaring back across 40 of 50 states. "So Trump is forcing foreign students to study in unsafe conditions during Covid-19", Mehta tweeted. Fall 2020 semester begins early September in the US, immediately after Labor Day weekend. By that time, America's death toll is projected to have crossed the grim milestone of 170,000, according to at least a couple of predictive models. The new policy incentivises in-person classes during the ongoing pandemic which has already killed 130,000 Americans. The ICE announcement comes amidst heated debate across the country on what the coming Fall school session is going to look like. A vaccine against the coronavirus will not be available until at least year end or later. The announcement leaves the door open for "hybrid" models of online plus in-person classes as a way for students to remain in the US. It says, "Nonimmigrant F-1 students attending schools adopting a hybrid model, that is, a mixture of online and in person classes, will be allowed to take more than one class or three credit hours online." Andrew Ng, co-founder of Coursera and a Stanford computer science faculty member described this latest development as a "lose-lose" situation for both students and universities. In a tweet, Ng termed the policy as a "horrible" one which will hurt the US, students and universities. "Pushes universities to offer in-person classes even if unsafe or no pedagogical benefit, or students to leave US amidst pandemic and risk inability to return," Ng tweeted. "Most of my current PhD students are international. This is an unnecessary crisis" tweeted Paula Kagan, Professor at DePaul College of Science and Health. The language of the ICE statement terms the new rules as "modifications to temporary exemptions for nonimmigrant students taking online classes due to the pandemic for the fall 2020 semester." "The US Department of State will not issue visas to students enrolled in schools and/or programs that are fully online for the fall semester nor will US Customs and Border Protection permit these students to enter the United States. Active students currently in the United States enrolled in such programs must depart the country or take other measures, such as transferring to a school with in-person instruction to remain in lawful status. If not, they may face immigration consequences including, but not limited to, the initiation of removal proceedings." The Trump administration says it had allowed only a "temporary exemption" for online courses limited to the spring and summer semesters. The ICE announcement comes at a time when the US leads the world in coronavirus caseload. Covid-19 has sickened more than 2.9 million Americans and killed more than 130,000 till date. According to US Department of Commerce 2018 data, the student population contributed $45 billion to the US economy. Nearly 390,000 foreigners received student visas in Fiscal Year 2019, according to publicly available US government data. F-1 students pursue academic coursework and M-1 nonimmigrant students attend vocational courses in the United States.

Trump's new visa policy leaves foreign students enrolled online in a lurch —  take transfer or leave US

<ul class="summary-list"><li>International <keyword id="6360288" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="College">college</keyword> students taking online classes due to the <keyword id="1754604" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="coronavirus">coronavirus</keyword> pandemic will no longer be allowed to stay in the US on a student visa, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (<keyword id="51841" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="ice">ICE</keyword>) <a href="https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/sevp-modifies-temporary-exemptions-nonimmigrant-students-taking-online-courses-during#wcm-survey-target-id">announced</a> on Monday.</li><li>According to ICE, foreigners on student visas were temporarily allowed to take online courses during the spring and summer semesters as US schools adapted to changes brought on by the novel coronavirus.</li><li>That policy, however, will no longer be in place come the fall 2020 semester, leaving <keyword id="113647" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="International-students">international students</keyword> to figure out how to continue their studies in person or risk losing their visas. </li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/major-colleges-and-universities-going-remote-over-coronavirus-fears">Several major US institutions</a>, including Columbia, Harvard, and NYU, have embraced remote learning to tackle to spread of the virus.</li></ul>International college students taking online classes due to the coronavirus pandemic will no longer be allowed to stay in the US on a student visa, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) <a href="https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/sevp-modifies-temporary-exemptions-nonimmigrant-students-taking-online-courses-during#wcm-survey-target-id">announced</a> on Monday. In a statement, ICE said that nonimmigrant students attending schools that have switched to online courses cannot sign up for an entirely online course load and remain in the US. "Nonimmigrant students within the United States are not permitted to take a full course of study through online classes," the statement says. "If students find themselves in this situation, they must leave the country or take alternative steps to maintain their nonimmigrant status such as a reduced course load or appropriate medical leave."The US offers two types of student visas for foreign students — F-1, for most high school, college, and other academic programs, and M-1 for vocational or non-academic studies. In order to obtain a visa, international students must be accepted into a school approved by <a href="https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/study/student-visa.html#ExternalPopup">The Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP)</a>, a database used by the US Department of Homeland Security. According to the ICE statement, SEVP issued a temporary exemption for foreign students to allow them to take online courses during the spring and summer semesters as schools adapted to changes brought on by the novel coronavirus. "This policy permitted nonimmigrant students to take more online courses than normally permitted by federal regulation to maintain their nonimmigrant status during the <keyword id="8763838" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="covid-19">COVID-19</keyword> emergency," the statement says. That policy, however, will no longer be in place come the fall 2020 semester, leaving international students to figure out how to continue their studies in person or risk losing their visas. "The US Department of State will not issue visas to students enrolled in schools and/or programs that are fully online for the fall semester nor will US Customs and Border Protection permit these students to enter the United States," the statement says. "Active students currently in the United States enrolled in such programs must depart the country or take other measures, such as transferring to a school with in-person instruction to remain in lawful status."<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/major-colleges-and-universities-going-remote-over-coronavirus-fears">Several major US institutions</a>, including Columbia, Harvard, and NYU, have embraced remote learning to tackle to spread of the coronavirus. Some universities are operating entirely online, while others are offering a hybrid model. Some of these universities have also moved students out of their on-campus accommodation.The president of the American Council on <keyword id="6355445" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="education">Education</keyword>, Ted Mitchell, <a href="https://www.acenet.edu/News-Room/Pages/Statement-by-ACE-President-Ted-Mitchell-on-ICE-Guidance-on-International-Students.aspx">said in a statement</a> on Monday that the new ICE guidance is "horrifying." "While we would welcome more clarity about international students studying in the United States, this guidance raises more questions than it answers and unfortunately does more harm than good," Mitchell said. "ICE should allow any international student with a valid visa to continue their education regardless of whether a student is receiving his or her education online, in person, or through a combination of both, whether in the United States or in their home country, during this unprecedented global health crisis," he added. According to Mitchell, about one million international students attend US colleges and universities annually, and "also yield an estimated economic impact of $41 billion."President Donald Trump has taken aim at temporary visa workers as unemployment rates in the US <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/quarter-of-young-american-workers-lost-job-due-to-coronavirus-2020-6">have skyrocketed</a> over the past few months. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jobs-industries-careers-hit-hardest-by-coronavirus-unemployment-data-2020-5">Several industries</a>, including travel, sport, and hospitality, have seen a significant downturn brought on by coronavirus restrictions. In June, Trump signed an executive order <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-executive-order-work-visas-immigration-2020-6">to suspend H-1B work visas</a>, claiming that nonimmigrant visa programs posed an "unusual threat" to American jobs during the pandemic. "American workers compete against foreign nationals for jobs in every sector of our economy, including against millions of aliens who enter the United States to perform temporary work," Trump said in his order.

ICE says international students taking online courses have to transfer or leave the US, as dozens of schools shift to remote learning in response to COVID-19

<ul class="summary-list"><li>ICE announced on Friday that <keyword id="6356001" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="international">international</keyword> students who newly enrolled after March 9 "will not be able to enter the U.S. to enroll" if the school they take a fully online course load this fall term.</li><li>This announcement comes ten days after<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ice-may-reverse-directive-that-could-deport-international-students-2020-7"> ICE announced on July 14 that they would rescind their initial guidelines</a>.</li><li>Earlier in July, ICE initially <a href="https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/sevp-modifies-temporary-exemptions-nonimmigrant-students-taking-online-courses-during#wcm-survey-target-id">announced </a>a policy that forbade international students from remaining in the US if their schools were "operating entirely online." The change in rules has <a href="https://www.insider.com/lack-of-clarity-in-ice-guidelines-looms-over-university-hybrid-courses">stirred confusion and backlash among students and universities across the country</a>. </li></ul>The U.S. <keyword id="398691" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Immigration-and-Customs-Enforcement">Immigration and Customs Enforcement</keyword> announced on Friday that international students who newly enrolled in classes after March 9 "will not be able to enter the U.S." if all of their courses are online in the fall."Nonimmigrant students in new or initial status after March 9 will not be able to enter the U.S. to enroll in a U.S. school as a nonimmigrant student for the fall term to pursue a full course of study that is 100 percent online," <a href="https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-continues-march-guidance-fall-school-term">the announcement stated. </a>Manar Waheed, Senior Legislative and Advocacy Counsel at ACLU, told Insider that the new announcement is "another way for the administration to target students in particular and [prevent] people from coming to the US," including those who come for "educational opportunities."This rule comes after the Trump administration <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ice-may-reverse-directive-that-could-deport-international-students-2020-7">rescinded an initial order,</a> which <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ice-may-reverse-directive-that-could-deport-international-students-2020-7">banned international students from remaining in the US if their schools are "operating entirely online."</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ice-may-reverse-directive-that-could-deport-international-students-2020-7"></a>The policy had appeared to allow students to stay if they took a combination of online and in-person classes. But <a href="https://www.insider.com/lack-of-clarity-in-ice-guidelines-looms-over-university-hybrid-courses">limited information sowed confusion among universities, </a> as they scurried to find ways to protect international students from potential deportation. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/harvard-and-mit-contest-order-depor-international-students-studying-online-2020-7">Harvard and MIT quickly filed a lawsuit against ICE over the new policy</a>, garnering support from 200 universities. <a href="https://www.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/content/sevp_filing.pdf">Harvard and MIT's lawsuit</a> addressed concerns for international students with time zone variations or with "unreliable or state-managed Internet connections." The lawsuit cited examples of students in Syria, where there is an ongoing humanitarian crisis, or Ethiopia, where the government is known to suspend internet access on recurring occasions. Seventeen states and DC had also filed a<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6987852-Massachusetts-DHS-Complaint.html"> separate lawsuit </a>against the policy, representing more than 370,000 international students at over 1,100 <keyword id="37181" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="colleges">colleges</keyword> in the combined regions, some who told Insider that <a href="https://www.insider.com/international-students-unsettled-by-new-ice-guidelines-2020-7">the policy was unsettling and jeopardizing their futures</a>. ICE did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment. <ul class="read-more-links"><li>Read more:</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ice-may-reverse-directive-that-could-deport-international-students-2020-7">The ICE policy that would expel international students taking online classes is being rolled back</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/international-students-unsettled-by-new-ice-guidelines-2020-7">International students are losing their 'idealized vision' of the US and weighing options to leave the country if Trump wins in November</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/lack-of-clarity-in-ice-guidelines-looms-over-university-hybrid-courses">Colleges are scrambling to figure out how to keep international students in the US as ICE threatens to deport them</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/international-students-visas-cant-take-only-online-classes-ice-2020-7">ICE says international students taking online courses have to transfer or leave the US, as dozens of schools shift to remote learning in response to COVID-19</a></li></ul>

ICE bars newly enrolled international students from entering the US if their classes will be online only

America is refusing to do the one simple thing that would solve the Great People Shortage

<ul class="summary-list"><li>An <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/more-than-184000-indians-applied-for-h1b-visa-for-fy20-21/articleshow/74938489.cms">H-1B visa</a> is a non-immigrant visa that allows U.S. companies to employ highly skilled workers from other countries.</li><li>Congress allows <a href="https://www.uscis.gov/">U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)</a> to issue up to 65,000 <a href="https://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/temporary-workers/h-1b-specialty-occupations-dod-cooperative-research-and-development-project-workers-and-fashion-models">H-1B work visas</a> to highly skilled foreign workers each year. It can issue an additional 20,000 H-1B visas to workers who obtained a graduate degree in the U.S.</li><li>Because more people apply than can be accepted, the visas are run through a <a href="https://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/temporary-workers/h-1b-specialty-occupations-and-fashion-models/h-1b-fiscal-year-fy-2021-cap-season">lottery system</a>.</li><li>If you get laid off on an H-1B visa, you have several options: Find a new employer to sponsor your <keyword id="395013" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="H1-B">H1-B</keyword> visa; get a spousal support visa; apply to change your status to a student or tourist visa; or leave the U.S.</li><li>Your visa status will expire 60 days after termination.</li></ul>In April, the unemployment rate in the U.S. jumped to 14.7% — the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/april-jobs-report-unemployment-rate-payrolls-record-us-economy-coronavirus-2020-5">highest</a> it's been since the Great Depression. The April <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/chart-showing-employment-declines-over-past-recessions-2020-5">jobs report</a> shows that more than 20 million jobs were lost in a single month.While a sudden loss of employment is cause for concern for anyone, it comes with an additional concern for foreign workers who are in the U.S. on an H-1B visa.That's because foreign workers facing unemployment have 60 days from termination to come up with a formal reason for staying in the U.S. That reason must be accepted by the U.S. government, or the foreign worker will have to leave the country. <a href="https://www.niskanencenter.org/how-the-coronavirus-will-kick-legal-immigrants-out-of-line-and-out-of-the-country/">Jeremy Neufeld, an immigration policy analyst with the Washington, DC, think tank Niskanen Center estimated in a recent article that</a> more than 200,000 foreign workers on H-1B visas could lose their legal status by the end of June. This could include employed foreign workers who have to renew their visas in June.If you've recently lost your job in the U.S. and are on an H-1B visa, here are your options. <h2>1. Talk to an <keyword id="50403" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Immigration">immigration</keyword> attorney </h2>The first thing a foreign worker with an H-1B visa should do after getting laid off is consult with an immigration lawyer.Business Insider spoke to three experts — Karla M. McKanders, a clinical law professor at Vanderbilt University; <a href="https://law.stanford.edu/directory/lucas-guttentag/">Lucas Guttentag</a>, a law professor at Stanford and Yale; and <a href="https://www.roseimmigration.com/">Linda Rose, a practicing immigration lawyer</a> — and all three agreed on that step. Rose stressed the importance of consulting with the right type of attorney."We strongly recommend the individual consult with a knowledgeable attorney," Rose said. "Not all immigration attorneys practice business immigration."Suggested resource: <a href="https://www.aila.org/">The American Immigrant Lawyers Association (AILA)</a> is an organization of attorneys and law professors who represent foreign students, workers, asylum seekers, usually on a volunteer basis.<h2>2. Try to find a new employer</h2>Another option for those who have been recently laid off is to find a new employer.To continue working in the U.S., those on an <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/-coronavirus-pressure-laid-off-foreign-workers-2020-5">H-1B visa</a> must find another employer who is willing to sponsor their H-1B visa.Suggested resource: The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (<keyword id="137642" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="USCIS">USCIS</keyword>) has an <a href="https://www.uscis.gov/h-1b-data-hub">H-1B Employer Data Hub</a>. Those looking for an H1-B sponsor can use this tool to find out which employers have sponsored foreign workers on an H-1B between 2009 and 2020. <h2>3. Change your visa status in the allotted 60-day time period</h2><a href="https://www.uscis.gov/visit-united-states/change-my-nonimmigrant-status">To change your visa status</a> is to formally change your reason for being in the U.S. This formal change has to be approved by the U.S. government and it has to happen within the 60-day period that starts directly after termination. Even outside a pandemic, it's a difficult process in America, McKanders, the Vanderbilt professor, told Business Insider."Someone who is in the United States seeking to change their visa status during the pandemic ... will have a hard time navigating through this process," McKanders told Business Insider. "The law during the pandemic is complex and constantly in flux."Start your visa application process by filing an application with <a href="https://www.uscis.gov/forms/file-online">USCIS</a>.From there, applicants typically go through several more steps, including fingerprinting, interviews, background checks, and sometimes <a href="https://www.uscis.gov/ilink/docView/AFM/HTML/AFM/0-0-0-1/0-0-0-1067/0-0-0-1318.html">requests for more information</a>.Guttentag, who founded and ran the American Civil Liberties Union Immigrants' Rights Project for almost three decades, told Business Insider than under normal circumstances, reported cycle times for changing one's visa status range from three to 12 months.The <a href="https://www.uscis.gov/about-us/uscis-response-covid-19">USCIS suspended all in-person interviews and fingerprinting on March 18</a>. The offices are scheduled to reopen on June 4, and online filing is always recommended for submitting forms.<h2 style="font-weight: 400;">3a. Alternate visa options to consider include a visitor visa and a student visa</h2>While there are multiple <a href="https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/visa-information-resources/all-visa-categories.html">visa categories</a>, most foreign workers are likely to be eligible for the following types of visas. The first option is a B-1/B-2 visa, which is a visitor visa, Rose told Business Insider.B-1 visas are meant for those visiting the U.S. for business purposes. B-2 visas are meant for tourists. The other option for foreign workers is to try applying for a student (F-1) visa, Rose told Business Insider. However, timing is critical. The <a href="https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/study/student-visa.html">U.S. Department of State</a> recommends applying for your F-1 visa early because interview wait times vary depending on your location, and amid the pandemic, all interviews are suspended until June 4 at the earliest.<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/08/business/china-us-coronavirus-workers-intl-hnk/index.html">Tang Chen, a foreign worker from China who was recently laid off, told CNN</a> that she has been applying to colleges to get an F-1 visa so she can legally stay in the U.S.<h2>4. Apply for a spousal support visa</h2>A spousal support visa allows one to continue to work in the U.S. as long as their spouse remains employed.A recently laid-off startup employee previously told <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/-coronavirus-pressure-laid-off-foreign-workers-2020-5">Business Insider</a> that his wife was only authorized to work in the United States under a spousal support visa linked to his continued employment, forcing her to leave her job if he fails to find one.Suggested Resource: <a href="https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/family-immigration/nonimmigrant-visa-for-a-spouse-k-3.html">The U.S. Department of State</a> has an overview of spousal support visas, including information about who is eligible for one and how to apply.Read the original article on <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-to-do-if-lose-h1b-visa-immigrant-layoffs-resources-2020-5">Business Insider</a>

What to do if you get laid off on an H-1B visa during the coronavirus pandemic

President Barack <keyword id="16284" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Obama">Obama</keyword> laid out his new blueprint for <keyword id="124780" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="immigration-reform">immigration reform</keyword> Tuesday, making a major push on the top legislative priority of his second term. 
The proposal is structured around four major points: 
<ol>
<li>Strengthening border security</li>
<li>Cracking down on employers hiring undocumented workers</li>
<li>Providing a path to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented workers currently living in the U.S. </li>
<li>Streamlining the legal immigration system</li>
</ol>
Here's the full fact sheet from the <keyword id="6356037" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="white-house">White House</keyword>: 
FACT SHEET: Fixing our Broken Immigration System so Everyone Plays by the Rules America’s immigration system is broken. Too many employers game the system by hiring undocumented workers and there are 11 million people living in the shadows. Neither is good for the economy or the country. It is time to act to fix the broken immigration system in a way that requires responsibility from everyone —both from the workers here illegally and those who hire them—and guarantees that everyone is playing by the same rules. President Obama’s commonsense immigration reform proposal has four parts. First, continue to strengthen our borders. Second, crack down on companies that hire undocumented workers. Third, hold undocumented immigrants accountable before they can earn their citizenship; this means requiring undocumented workers to pay their taxes and a penalty, move to the back of the line, learn English, and pass background checks. Fourth, streamline the legal immigration system for families, workers, and employers. Together we can build a fair, effective and commonsense immigration system that lives up to our heritage as a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants. The key principles the President believes should be included in commonsense immigration reform are: · Continuing to Strengthen Border Security: President Obama has doubled the number of Border Patrol agents since 2004 and today border security is stronger than it has ever been. But there is more work to do. The President’s proposal gives law enforcement the tools they need to make our communities safer from crime. And by enhancing our infrastructure and technology, the President’s proposal continues to strengthen our ability to remove criminals and apprehend and prosecute national security threats. · Cracking Down on Employers Hiring Undocumented Workers: Our businesses should only employ people legally authorized to work in the United States. Businesses that knowingly employ undocumented workers are exploiting the system to gain an advantage over businesses that play by the rules. The President’s proposal is designed to stop these unfair hiring practices and hold these companies accountable. At the same time, this proposal gives employers who want to play by the rules a reliable way to verify that their employees are here legally. · Earned Citizenship: It is just not practical to deport 11 million undocumented immigrants living within our borders. The President’s proposal provides undocumented immigrants a legal way to earn citizenship that will encourage them to come out of the shadows so they can pay their taxes and play by the same rules as everyone else. Immigrants living here illegally must be held responsible for their actions by passing national security and criminal background checks, paying taxes and a penalty, going to the back of the line, and learning English before they can earn their citizenship. There will be no uncertainty about their ability to become U.S. citizens if they meet these eligibility criteria. The proposal will also stop punishing innocent young people brought to the country through no fault of their own by their parents and give them a chance to earn their citizenship more quickly if they serve in the military or pursue higher education. · Streamlining Legal Immigration: Our immigration system should reward anyone who is willing to work hard and play by the rules. For the sake of our economy and our security, legal immigration should be simple and efficient. The President’s proposal attracts the best minds to America by providing visas to foreign entrepreneurs looking to start businesses here and helping the most promising foreign graduate students in science and math stay in this country after graduation, rather than take their skills to other countries. The President’s proposal will also reunify families in a timely and humane manner. Continuing to Strengthen Border Security · Strengthen border security and infrastructure. The President’s proposal strengthens and improves infrastructure at ports of entry, facilitates public-private partnerships aimed at increasing investment in foreign visitor processing, and continues supporting the use of technologies that help to secure the land and maritime borders of the United States. · Combat transnational crime. The President’s proposal creates new criminal penalties dedicated to combating transnational criminal organizations that traffic in drugs, weapons, and money, and that smuggle people across the borders. It also expands the scope of current law to allow for the forfeiture of these organizations’ criminal tools and proceeds. Through this approach, we will bolster our efforts to deprive criminal enterprises, including those operating along the Southwest border, of their infrastructure and profits. · Improve partnerships with border communities and law enforcement. The President’s proposal expands our ability to work with our cross-border law enforcement partners. Community trust and cooperation are keys to effective law enforcement. To this end, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will establish border community liaisons along the Southern and Northern borders to improve communication and collaboration with border communities, boost funding to tribal government partners to reduce illegal activity on tribal lands, and strengthen training on civil rights and civil liberties for DHS immigration officers. · Crack down on criminal networks engaging in passport and visa fraud and human smuggling. The President’s proposal creates tough criminal penalties for trafficking in passports and immigration documents and schemes to defraud, including those who prey on vulnerable immigrants through notario fraud. It also strengthens penalties to combat human smuggling rings. · Deporting Criminals. The President’s proposal expands smart enforcement efforts that target convicted criminals in federal or state correctional facilities, allowing us to remove them from the United States at the end of their sentences without re-entering our communities. At the same time, it protects those with a credible fear of returning to their home countries. · Streamline removal of nonimmigrant national security and public safety threats. The President’s proposal creates a streamlined administrative removal process for people who overstay their visas and have been determined to be threats to national security and public safety. · Improve our nation’s immigration courts. The President’s proposal invests in our immigration courts. By increasing the number of immigration judges and their staff, investing in training for court personnel, and improving access to legal information for immigrants, these reforms will improve court efficiency. It allows DHS to better focus its detention resources on public safety and national security threats by expanding alternatives to detention and reducing overall detention costs. It also provides greater protections for those least able to represent themselves. Cracking Down on Employers Who Hire Undocumented Workers · Mandatory, phased-in electronic employment verification. The President’s proposal provides tools for employers to ensure a legal workforce by using federal government databases to verify that the people they hire are eligible to work in the United States. Penalties for hiring undocumented workers are significantly increased, and new penalties are established for committing fraud and identity theft. The new mandatory program ensures the privacy and confidentiality of all workers’ personal information and includes important procedural protections. Mandatory electronic employment verification would be phased in over five years with exemptions for certain small businesses. · Combat fraud and identity theft. The proposal also mandates a fraud-resistant, tamper-resistant Social Security card and requires workers to use fraud-and tamper-resistant documents to prove authorization to work in the United States. The proposal also seeks to establish a voluntary pilot program to evaluate new methods to authenticate identity and combat identity theft. · Protections for all workers. The President’s proposal protects workers against retaliation for exercising their labor rights. It increases the penalties for employers who hire undocumented workers to skirt the workplace standards that protect all workers. And it creates a “labor law enforcement fund” to help ensure that industries that employ significant numbers of immigrant workers comply with labor laws. Pathway to Earned Citizenship · Create a provisional legal status. Undocumented immigrants must come forward and register, submit biometric data, pass criminal background and national security checks, and pay fees and penalties before they will be eligible for a provisional legal status. Agricultural workers and those who entered the United States as children would be eligible for the same program. Individuals must wait until the existing legal immigration backlogs are cleared before getting in line to apply for lawful permanent residency (i.e. a “green card”), and ultimately United States citizenship. Consistent with current law, people with provisional legal status will not be eligible for welfare or other federal benefits, including subsidies or tax credits under the new health care law. · Create strict requirements to qualify for lawful permanent resident status. Those applying for green cards must pay their taxes, pass additional criminal background and national security checks, register for Selective Service (where applicable), pay additional fees and penalties, and learn English and U.S. civics. As under current law, five years after receiving a green card, individuals will be eligible to apply for U.S. citizenship like every other legal permanent resident.? · Earned citizenship for DREAMers. Children brought here illegally through no fault of their own by their parents will be eligible for earned citizenship. By going to college or serving honorably in the Armed Forces for at least two years, these children should be given an expedited opportunity to earn their citizenship. The President’s proposal brings these undocumented immigrants out of the shadows. · Create administrative and judicial review. An individual whose provisional lawful status has been revoked or denied, or whose application for adjustment has been denied, will have the opportunity to seek administrative and judicial review of those decisions. · Provide new resources to combat fraud. The President’s proposal authorizes funding to enable DHS, the Department of State, and other relevant federal agencies to establish fraud prevention programs that will provide training for adjudicators, allow regular audits of applications to identify patterns of fraud and abuse, and incorporate other proven fraud prevention measures. Streamlining Legal Immigration · Keep Families Together. The proposal seeks to eliminate existing backlogs in the family-sponsored immigration system by recapturing unused visas and temporarily increasing annual visa numbers. The proposal also raises existing annual country caps from 7 percent to 15 percent for the family-sponsored immigration system. It also treats same-sex families as families by giving U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents the ability to seek a visa on the basis of a permanent relationship with a same-sex partner. The proposal also revises current unlawful presence bars and provides broader discretion to waive bars in cases of hardship.? · Cut Red Tape for Employers. The proposal also eliminates the backlog for employment-sponsored immigration by eliminating annual country caps and adding additional visas to the system. Outdated legal immigration programs are reformed to meet current and future demands by exempting certain categories from annual visa limitations. · Enhance travel and tourism. The Administration is committed to increasing U.S. travel and tourism by facilitating legitimate travel while maintaining our nation’s security. Consistent with the President’s Executive Order on travel and tourism, the President’s proposal securely streamlines visa and foreign visitor processing. It also strengthens law enforcement cooperation while maintaining the program’s robust counterterrorism and criminal information sharing initiatives. It facilitates more efficient travel by allowing greater flexibility to designate countries for participation in the Visa Waiver Program, which allows citizens of designated countries to visit the United States without obtaining a visa. And finally it permits the State Department to waive interview requirements for certain very low-risk visa applicants, permitting resources to be focused on higher risk applicants and creates a pilot for premium visa processing. · “Staple” green cards to advanced STEM diplomas. The proposal encourages foreign graduate students educated in the United States to stay here and contribute to our economy by “stapling” a green card to the diplomas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) PhD and Master’s Degree graduates from qualified U.S. universities who have found employment in the United States. It also requires employers to pay a fee that will support education and training to grow the next generation of American workers in STEM careers. · Create a “startup visa” for job-creating entrepreneurs. The proposal allows foreign entrepreneurs who attract financing from U.S. investors or revenue from U.S. customers to start and grow their businesses in the United States, and to remain permanently if their companies grow further, create jobs for American workers, and strengthen our economy. · Expand opportunities for investor visas and U.S. economic development. The proposal permanently authorizes immigrant visa opportunities for regional center (pooled investment) programs; provides incentives for visa requestors to invest in programs that support national priorities, including economic development in rural and economically depressed regions ; adds new measures to combat fraud and national security threats; includes data collection on economic impact; and creates a pilot program for state and local government officials to promote economic development. · Create a new visa category for employees of federal national security science and technology laboratories. The proposal creates a new visa category for a limited number of highly-skilled and specialized immigrants to work in federal science and technology laboratories on critical national security needs after being in the United States. for two years and passing rigorous national security and criminal background checks. · Better addresses humanitarian concerns. The proposal streamlines immigration law to better protect vulnerable immigrants, including those who are victims of crime and domestic violence. It also better protects those fleeing persecution by eliminating the existing limitations that prevent qualified individuals from applying for asylum. · Encourage integration. The proposal promotes earned citizenship and efforts to integrate immigrants into their new American communities linguistically, civically, and economically.

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