Streamlining Legal Immigration
Our immigration system should reward anyone who is willing to work hard and play by the rules. For the sake of our economy and our security, legal immigration should be simple and efficient.
The President’s proposal attracts the best minds to America by providing visas to foreign entrepreneurs looking to start businesses here and helping the most promising foreign graduate students in science and math stay in this country after graduation, rather than take their skills to other countries.
The President’s proposal will also reunite families in a timely and humane manner. On January 29, 2013 President Barack Obama stated,
“[W]e’ve got to bring our legal immigration system into the 21st century… if you are a citizen, you shouldn’t have to wait years before your family is able to join you in America… If you’re a foreign student who wants to pursue a career in science or technology, or a foreign entrepreneur who wants to start a business with the backing of American investors, we should help you do that here. Because if you succeed, you’ll create American businesses and American jobs. You’ll help us grow our economy. You’ll help us strengthen our middle class.”
Keeping Families Together
The proposal seeks to eliminate existing backlogs in the family-sponsored immigration system by recapturing unused visas and temporarily increasing annual visa numbers. The proposal also raises existing annual country caps from 7 percent to 15 percent for the family-sponsored immigration system. It also treats same-sex families as families by giving U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents the ability to seek a visa on the basis of a permanent relationship with a same-sex partner. The proposal also revises current unlawful presence bars and provides broader discretion to waive bars in cases of hardship.
Reducing Barriers for Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovators.
We must continue to attract immigrant entrepreneurs who will start new businesses and create new jobs here in America. Taking action on this front, USCIS established an innovative Entrepreneurs in Residence initiative, harnessing industry expertise to ensure that existing immigration pathways are clear and consistent, and reflect the business realities of entrepreneurs interested in coming to the U.S. to create jobs.
Recently, the Administration launched Entrepreneur Pathways, an online resource center that provides entrepreneurs who seek to start a business in the United States an intuitive way to navigate the immigration process. The Administration has also taken action to keep more talented science and math graduates in the country longer and to attract highly skilled immigrants, all under existing authority.
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