BREAKING Immigration News: Competition Act 2022 to Carry Immigration Reform Changes | Biden Concurs
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Common sense immigration reform is a critical priority to securing nation’s economic future and has strong bipartisan support. The White House and congressional leadership have time and time again assured the immigrants that it is a top priority but have continued to drag their feet on a bipartisan solution that would be a win-win for everyone. At this point we can’t be certain but there are positive updates that Lawmakers are open to amend Competition Bill to carry the immigration changes.
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On Feb. 4, the House of Representatives passed a bill aimed at increasing U.S. economic competitiveness named as the America COMPETES Act of 2022. Biden has already expressed strong support for seeing the bill enacted into law.
The bill was passed a few days after the Biden administration announced a series of policy changes to grant more visas for students and professionals working in science and technology. The move will expand the number of academic majors and professional fields that qualify as “STEM” to include emerging fields like data science. International students who majored in a STEM field are permitted to work in the U.S. for three years after graduation, compared to one year for those in non-STEM fields.
On March 23, 2022 Following the advancement of legislation to shore up U.S. global competitiveness, senators expressed optimism the bill could serve as a bipartisan vehicle for long-awaited changes to the legal immigration system.
The Senate voted Wednesday (23 March) to move forward with resolving differences between its bill and the House-passed version. Both measures would provide funds to boost American manufacturing and scientific research to better compete with China and other global powers.
Chief among those differences are a slate of immigration provisions added by the House that would create a new visa category for entrepreneurs. They also would exempt foreign citizens with doctoral degrees in science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM fields, from annual green card limits.
These limits have pushed foreign-born graduates of American universities out of the country and kept professionals from populous nations like India and China waiting more than a decade for green cards to become available.
Sen. Ben Ray Luján, Democrats New Mexico, a vocal proponent of efforts last year to pass a path to citizenship for immigrants, said he would support including the House-passed immigration provisions in the final version of the competition bill, citing workforce shortages in key industries. He and other colleagues, including those in the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, “are pursuing every opportunity that we have to make progress on immigration reform,” he said Wednesday.
Sen. Tammy Baldwin, Democrats-Wisconsin, one of 13 co-sponsors on the Senate’s competition bill, also said Wednesday she would support the House’s immigration additions, highlighting the challenges universities face in retaining foreign-born graduates under the current immigration scheme.
The immigration provisions could even garner support from some Senate Republicans, who have historically refused to support other efforts at immigration changes without significant increases in border security funding.
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