Several Diverse Effects of Reorganization: Evidence from the USCIS

Lee, Sang Yup; Yun, Taesik; Whitford, Andrew B.; Lim, Jae Young

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2555974

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“…Oftentimes, this means that a visa petition will be 'held in abeyance' as USCIS explains, until there are visas available again. 4 Likewise, in 2015 the State Department released a Visa Bulletin in which it stated that after a consultation with the Department of Homeland Security, some of the dates for filing petitions had been adjusted or retrogressed to 'better reflect a timeframe justifying immediate action in the application process'. 5 These adjustments led to the retrogression of several employment-based categories especially the EB-2 category for petitions from India and China.…”

Section: Retrogression and The Stagnant Visa Queuementioning

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Wait-times, visa queues and uncertainty: the barriers to American legal migration

Obinna

2020

Migration and Development

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Legal permanent residency (LPR) removes the immediate threat of deportation and allows a permanent foothold in America. Yet despite its protections, LPR is an incredibly difficult status to achieve for legal immigrants who are not immediate relatives (spouses, parents or minor children) of American citizens. Within a climate of increased enforcement, immigrants are urged to migrate using legal channels. Yet these channels are often oversubscribed and may span decades depending on visa type or country of origin. Using data from the National visa Center (NVC) and the U.S. Department of State, this manuscript outlines the difficulties of American LPR within its two largest quota capped categories: family reunification and employment. Findings indicate that countries like India, China, Mexico and the Philippines have the longest wait-times in visa queues -averaging between 7 and 23 years. Data also indicate that for the 2017 and 2018 fiscal years, there were over 3.7 million petitions waitlisted in visa queues at U.S. consulates abroad. As such, this manuscript evaluates how the unpredictability of American LPR restricts immigrant pathways to legal integration. It also evaluates how time spent in long visa queues -in part engenders illegal immigration.

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Section: Retrogression and The Stagnant Visa Queuementioning

confidence: 99%

Wait-times, visa queues and uncertainty: the barriers to American legal migration

Obinna

2020

Migration and Development

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Several Diverse Effects of Reorganization: Evidence from the USCIS

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Wait-times, visa queues and uncertainty: the barriers to American legal migration

Wait-times, visa queues and uncertainty: the barriers to American legal migration

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