In this video, we're going to talk about the latest immigration reform news. Today is February
13th, 2021 U S. Citizenship act is expected to be introduced on both the house and Senate
side. At the end of next week, the bill will be introduced by representative Linda Sanchez.
She's a Democrat out of California, and it will be introduced by her on the house side,
on the Senate side. As you know, by now, Senator Menendez has taken the lead on the bill.
Sources are saying that the bill is expected to be passed by the house in early March. However,
it will take much longer than that on the Senate side, just to refresh your memory.
The U S citizenship act provides a pathway to citizenship for 11 million people. Now staff met
from the white house and in both Senator Menendez office and representative Sanchez his office to
discuss the details of the bill, as well as the timeline for getting everything through.
However, what I've been reading from, uh, various reporters, they're saying that the
timeline is actually pretty ambitious and they're really not sure if it's going to
happen. Um, according to the timeline that these sources on Capitol Hill have laid out,
however, we'll see democratic legislators have two strategies for immigration reform on Capitol Hill.
The first strategy is to see how far they could actually get with the us citizenship act. The
second track involves bringing in the smaller stand-alone bills that passed during the last
Congress, bring in those bills to the floor in this Congress, by April 1st, for example,
bills targeting dreamers and farm workers, uh, got very far during the last Congress. Those
bills are expected to be brought to the floor by April 1st, next week, Democrats will be pushing
immigration reform and what they call an all out effort. HR 10 44 and S3 86, which is the
fairness for high-skilled immigrants have not been re-introduced yet in the new Congress.
Although those bills passed in the last Congress, they failed because they weren't reconciled before
the year ended in 2020. And if by the end of December, thus, they have to start all over
again in this new Congress. These bills increases per country cap on family-based immigrant visas
from 7% to 15% and eliminates the 7% cap for employment-based visas. According to ALA the
American immigration lawyers association. At this time, there is no active legislation
in Congress seeking to eliminate per country limitations for employment-based immigrants. Next
Senator Marsha Blackburn's ban birth tourism is not S 17, and it has been referred to the Senate
judiciary committee. Now, lastly, with respect to, uh, Capitol Hill news this week,
the house judiciary committee, where I once worked, uh, held a hearing on the need for
bold reforms. The Heron laid some groundwork for the immigration reform bills that are to come.
What is president Biden doing or not doing around immigration? Well, firstly, the family ban
is still in effect. Sadly president Biden has not lifted presidential proclamations one zero
zero one four and one zero zero five two. These proclamations suspend entry to the U S through
March 31st, uh, for certain immigrant visa, applicants and temporary workers. Although
immigration advocates have been urgent, president Biden to revoke these proclamations. He hasn't
done so yet. Now in contrast, president Biden on Friday announced plans to allow 25,000 people into
the country who are seeking asylum at our Southern border. These asylum seekers are in the remain
in Mexico program that president Trump had put in place to keep asylum seekers in Mexico,
rather than having them come into the United States and go through the immigration
court system here. Now start in February 19th, they will be allowed into the U S while
their case is pending in immigration court. According to the AP, they will allow about 300
people to enter each day at two border crossings and fewer numbers at a third crossing. Now in
other news from news McBean law news earlier this week, we were pleased that one of our marriage
based green card adjustment of status cases, uh, that was filed under the new public charge rule
was approved in five months. Our clients were beyond ecstatic, uh, and they actually did post
a review on Google. We filed a case on September 14th, 2020, and the clients were approved on
Tuesday on February 9th, 2021, the day of their interview. I'm going to share more details about
this and share my winning tips from this case so that you guys can see exactly how we did it
now for help with your immigration case. Be sure to contact our law office for a virtual
consultation via zoom, Skype, or telephone. You may book your appointment on our
website@mcbeanlaw.com or give the law office a call at (718) 301-9732. It is much faster to book
your consultation online. Lastly, I do want to mention that I have some good resources out there
for you guys. My marriage petition program is up again very soon. So stay tuned for details about,
um, when you may enroll in my program, I'm going to be posting on McBean immigration law, IgE page.
So you want to follow me on Instagram for those updates. And then also if you have an immigrant
embassy interview coming up, be sure to prepare yourself for that interview. Yet my nine lessons
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the link below for details about that. Now, guys, I hope you found this video very helpful and yes,
indeed. I have resurrected my orchid. Um, some of you have been asking me questions about the
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