Hey friends, if you're interested in the latest immigration news, watch this video. I'm so
excited to be back in front of you. We have a lot of important things to talk about in
this one, but if you're new to me, welcome, I'm Latoya McBean Pompey and immigration lawyer
in New York, helping clients all over the United States and in many different countries,
visit us@mcbeanlaw.com to book your consultation with us, where a virtual law office, and check
us out to see what we do and how we may be able to help you. Now let's get into it. We
have some very interesting and exciting news to cover in this one. Firstly, the visa backlog
issue. I have an update for you on where things are at with the visa backlog. Uh, secondly,
we're going to talk about a rule that ice, uh, just pulled back that will help students
specifically.
Thirdly, we're going to talk about, um, a huge push by the Biden administration to naturalize
more people, right? So that they can become us citizens. And then lastly, we're going
to talk about immigration reform. Yes. We're going to get into the latest with immigration
reform. Now firstly, the NVC backlog issue. Um, well I should just actually, what I should
say is that this report is created by the NVC that shows you where they are with respect
to those people or you, you could be one of them who are out there still waiting for a
visa interview to be scheduled. And specifically we're talking about the immigrant visa process.
The last time I reported out to you guys, um, we talked about the may report. The may
report showed that 481,000 people were still waiting after their application was processed
by the NVC. And they are considered documentary qualified, which means that now they're they're
ready for an interview to be scheduled.
And so back in may, it was 481,000 people. Um, today guys, this is trend in the backlog
is trending in the wrong direction today. The number of people who are waiting for their
visa appointment, uh, immigrant visa appointment has jumped to 506,000 people. So this is going
in the wrong direction. Now is definitely a time. Now is definitely the time I should
say to consider whether your case is the type that should be expedited right now, the standard
to get your case expedited is actually pretty high. I have a video out there about it. I'm
going to link to it here. Um, you can contact us also at the law office to consider whether
your case is the type that we can submit an expedited request to so that you can get your
interview now. Um, secondly ice, just this week, ice withdrew one of the Trump rules
or proposed rules that the Trump administration had, which, um, impacts students at the rule
was proposed in September of 2020.
And it's called establishing a fixed time period of admission and an extension of state
procedure for non-immigrant academic students, exchange visitors and representatives of foreign
information media. And so what that proposed rule and that's very wordy, but what the rule
proposed to do was eliminate the duration of stay, the duration of status requirement's
um, duration of stay, I'm sorry, the duration of status admission, uh, period for F J and
certain non-immigrants and replace it with a fixed time period. And this was, this was
a huge deal. It was a huge deal because what it would have done was require, um, these
students to who wanted to remain here in the United States, beyond the period of their
admission, they would be required to apply for an extension of stay directly with U S
CIS or leave the us and apply for admissions, um, with us customs and border protection
at a port of entry.
So the Biden administration just pulled this proposed rule. So it's not, it is no longer
on the table. And that's great news. Thirdly, guys, the Biden administration is doing a
huge, huge push around citizen around citizenship. Uh, just this week they, uh, published an
inner agency strategy for promoting naturalization and they're going to be doing a lot of things
around naturalization over the next couple of years, uh, specifically they're going to
target and this one got my attention. They're going to target people who are not yet citizens
and, um, RP and peop and including those who are not even yet green card holders, they're
going to target those people and to help them to determine whether they're eligible for
naturalization and for those who don't have a green card yet, they're going to target
them and help them to determine whether they're eligible for a green card and specifically
the report that they, um, that the strategy that they put out says that they're going
to, um, uh, reach out to LPRs are, uh, uh, LPRs lawful permanent resident, but they will
also reach out to people earlier in their immigration journeys to reach those who may
one day become eligible for naturalization.
They're going to develop educational materials and other stuff like that geared towards helping
people who are not yet green card holders. And those people don't know that perhaps they
could be eligible for a green card. And specifically they're going to, um, focus in on those who
could potentially benefit from a humanitarian pathway to a green card such as the TVs or
the U visa or under the violence against women act Varroa. So that's interesting. They're
also going to be, uh, doing a lot of public education and campaigns and community outreach
and, um, uh, social media outreach and some other things to get more people to apply for
citizenship. But I will say this I'm going to put on my lawyer hat for a moment here
and say that you should definitely get screened by an attorney before you apply for naturalization.
If you have anything in your background that you're concerned about, okay, such as a criminal
record or an immigration violation contact us so that we can screen you, uh, to determine
whether you're a good fit to seek naturalization.
But if you are a good fit for naturalization, by all means, you should go ahead and do it.
Okay. Fourthly friends, pathway to citizenship. What is going on with reconciliation? Well,
firstly, the Democrats are still I in reconciliation this summer. However, some are now coming
out, representatives on Capitol hill. They're now coming out and they're saying, well, we're
not going to back reconciliation the reconciliation bill, unless it also includes immigration
reform and specifically representative Garcia out of Illinois. He came out very strongly
earlier this week and he said that I could only support this reconciliation if it includes
immigration reform and just a reminder to pass the reconciliation bill, all Senate Democrats
must be on board with it. And, uh, the vast majority, um, a significant number of them
on the house side must also support it in order for reconciliation to, um, be part of
what they do this summer on Capitol hill. Now Bernie Sanders, Senator Sanders, he has
his immigration plan guys, uh, part of the huge $6 trillion reconciliation package that
he has put together. It includes 150 billion
For immigration programs, programs that provide
A pathway pathway
To citizenship for DACA recipients, farm workers, TPS holders, essential workers, right? That's
part of his plan. And, uh, it all the plan also includes 24 billion for border infrastructure
and modernizing land ports of entry as well. And Bernie Sanders has said, has said very
specifically, no reconciliation bill, no deal. And he's referring to the infrastructure bi-partisan
deal that was struck up just recently, um, on Capitol hill. So he is connected reconciliation.
He's not the only one others as well are connecting the need for a reconciliation bill. That includes
all of these other priorities that the Senate Democrats have around climate, um, reform,
uh, immigration, Medicare, and some other things. Um, they're connecting it now to the
infrastructure bell. So that's going to be really interesting to watch over the next
couple of months, how this plays out on Capitol hill. Um, and so guys, that's the immigration,
uh, news report.
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out. I was gone for just a little bit, right on my vacation, gone for just a little bit
on my vacation, but I am back and I'm very excited to see how things play out this summer,
specifically with immigration on Capitol hill. Guys, thanks so much for being with me in
this one and I will see you in the next one. Bye bye.