Do you want to know what's the most common question I've been asked for the past two weeks?
What's ahead for US immigration in 2021? I've been getting text messages,
on our YouTube channel. And although I don't have a crystal ball, I'll try to make
a little bit of sense of what's ahead. It just gives you an idea
as to what's possible for the new administration to do in the first 100 days.
I anticipate that our US immigration policy will experience tremendous growth
in the next few months after Trump completes his regulatory agenda. Litigation will slowly die
down, and Biden will take office on January 20. These changes are going to incentivize companies
to start hiring more foreign talent. It's going to encourage families
to start working on their immigration processes, those that were holding off for many years,
while Trump was in power. We are also going to see opportunities from startup founders,
creatives, investors, people that are looking to build their future and build some amazing
opportunities right here in the US because they're going to see that restrictions are being lifted,
and the sky is going to be the limit. The American Dream is going to become
something that people want to achieve once again. After January 20, Trump is no longer going to be
in power, and Biden is going to view immigrants as a positive force and is going to enact policies
that are going to reflect his views in that respect. But how is Biden actually going to
do that? That's actually a big source of confusion for a lot of our YouTube channel viewers and many
other people that asked me that question. Remember that Trump implemented a lot of his changes
by memos, executive orders, and proclamations. Addressing those is going to be much easier than
undoing any regulations that were passed during the Trump administration. And new regulation that
is final can only be undone through a new round of notice and comments to withdraw that rule.
Another set of regulations, as though that is made final, but set to take an effective date
after the inauguration. So, after January 20, when Joe Biden becomes president. But the new president
can make an executive order stating that any new regulations that are not final to take
effect only 60 days after the inauguration date. And this allows the new president
enough time to figure out which regulations to let go of or which regulations to withdraw. As you
all know, and I've done videos about it as well. Trump issued a proclamation in April, limiting the
entry of many categories of immigrants, and then subsequently issued another proclamation in June.
He issued further proclamation limiting the entry of certain non-immigrant visas like certain ages,
and L1s unless they meet certain exceptions. And then, subsequently, just a few days ago,
on New Year's Eve, those proclamations were extended all the way through March 31 of 2021.
Those proclamations were issued even though the unemployment rate was below 3%. And therefore,
questioning Trump's intention in doing the extension of these proclamations. So, in a way,
it doesn't really make sense why Trump extended those proclamations if it wasn't politically
motivated. When Biden takes over, he's not going to have to go through the regulatory process,
the complicated process of going through comments and things like that, to be able to recede those
proclamations. All he's going to have to show is that the entry of these immigrants is not going to
be detrimental to the US economy anymore. And it's going to be very easy to show that, Biden said,
that he's going to undo the Muslim ban, as well as the travel ban for these countries, the Schengen
countries, and many other countries that are not allowed to enter the US at the moment.
Those can also be done very quickly. Remember, all executive orders can be undone immediately without
the need for notice or comment period. Let's talk about H1B visas. Currently,
the situation with H1B visas is pretty bad. The rate of denials and our fees is increasing
badly. The Biden administration will have to look at H1B program and start working with employers
to make sure that they get the confidence back in the system, reduce the rest of the denials.
Go back into fair and streamlined processing of H1B visas for the future and maybe even remove the
caps. When we talk about students and OPT, allow more students to be able to work after graduation
and find a better way to make the OPT process a more streamlined and effective way for them
to transition from education to employment, and therefore, making them more eager to come to the
United States, gain education and then blend into the workforce right away. And finally,
the Biden administration is going to have to work hard to improve the EAD processing for H4 spouses.
Those are spouses that live in the US and unable to work. Because of this administration's failure
to issue those EAD cards on time, a recent lawsuit exposed that because of errors in biometrics,
many, many H4 EAD, these were not issued on time. And as a result, many spouses were not able to
work and lost their jobs. Biden is going to have to improve that system as well. If they want to
have foreign workers in the US, their spouses should be able to work as well. And finally,
when we talk about embassies and consulates, the new administration needs to realize,
they need to focus more on adjudication and less enforcement, find a better way to reopen embassies
and consulates right away. Add more staff, reopen the calendars for appointments. Families have been
separated for too long, and this cannot continue. So, this should be a priority for the Biden
administration, to order the US embassies and consulates to start taking appointments and NVC
to send cases to the embassies for scheduling and stop this chaos because right now,
the backlogs are completely unreasonable. Donald Trump will no longer be president very soon. But
his policies will continue unless Joe Biden will take it seriously and decide to change
this entire immigration system to a country that welcomes immigrants, and makes the American dream
a reality. Again, let me know what you think in the comments. There are so many things that are
happening, and I'll continue to update you as changes and new policies will continue
to surface. Thanks for watching. If you want to talk to me directly, please text me right here. I
will set up a consultation with you. Thanks for watching, and I'll see you in our next video.
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