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20 Jan, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Some people deported under Trump may be able to get back and apply for the legalization benefit. 17
This one makes me smile. The word "alien" is being deleted from the law. If the bill passes, the term "noncitizen" will be used. 18
The horrible 3 and 10 year reentry bars from the 1996 Immigration Act will finally be scrapped. So many lives ruined over that provision. 19
New protections are provided to widows and children of Filipino WWII veterans (reminder - their home country was a US territory in WWII). 20
This one is big. "Immigrants with approved family-sponsorship petitions to join family in the United States on a temporary basis while they wait for green cards to become available." No more decades of families being split up. 21

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19 Jan
Aker/Gomez hearing on DV-2020 plaintiffs about to start. I'll tweet anything interesting I hear. 1
Judge Mehta has started the hearing. @ckuck is speaking and explaining to the judge that people who were issued the DV visas are seeing them expire and the government won't renew. 2
We're asking the judge to order @travelgov to give a report on how many visas issued, reissued & expiration dates. We also want a plan on how visas will be reissued. Finally, we want to know how govt will issue to dependents. 3
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19 Jan
I’m learning some more about the Biden immigration legislation that will be introduced tomorrow. There will be sections on legalization, the border, refugees & legal immigration. There are about a half dozen bills passed in the House in the last Congress that will be in there. 1
There will be a broad legalization program for millions of immigrants who have been in the US for many years and it will resemble the 2013 comprehensive bill except that it will have a 6 year path to citizenship versus the longer one in that prior bill. 2
A lot of people with prior deportation orders and inadmissibility will have an opportunity to apply. 3
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8 Jan
I've gone through the 185 page new H-1B rule changing the H-1B lottery to one that's wage based (though still a lottery of sorts). 1
The rule is final but doesn’t go into effect for 60 days. That means it will not impact the next H-1B lottery since the entry period will start before that date. 2
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6 Jan
One small thing I would like to see done very soon. Take the immigration sections of the Heroes Act (Covid relief) passed in May and separately pass that bill since McConnell stripped out that part. Here's my summary - visalaw.com/siskind-summar…
And add the Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act. There is plenty more to do but those bills are specifically Covid-related and need immediate passage.
The HWRA is jointly sponsored by Senators Perdue and Durbin. It has 40ish co-sponsors almost equally divided between Ds and Rs. It provides green cards for 40K doctors and nurses and it won't be filibustered.
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16 Dec 20
As predicted, the China provision is the main sticking point preventing possible inclusion of 1044/386 per country caps language in the omnibus bill. Several dozen advocacy organizations, including a number of Asian American groups, have come out opposing that language. 1
They are not taking a position on country caps - just the offensive paragraph. I know some groups supporting 1044 are trying to say the anti-Chinese language is symbolic & won't change things. Unfortunately, that's not true. 2
Fixing the language isn't that hard. But I understand Senator Scott is being obstinate and refusing modifications. 3
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2 Dec 20
Happy that S. 386 has finally passed in the Senate and we're a step closer to ending nationality discrimination in the visa allocation system. 1
However, there are significant differences with the House version that need to be negotiated (including a China provision that is going to be viewed as controversial unless clarified). 2
President-elect Biden also needs to use executive actions to address the backlogs and has options available to him that will ensure there are NO backlogs for anyone with or without country caps. 3
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