Biden's Plans for US Immigration (Big Changes)

[J&A1234 181]

Like many have mentioned, I don’t see a big change in immigration reform, especially if the senate remains republican. Immigration has been an issue that neither party has had a good track record on.

 

However I am very happy that Stephen Miller will be far far away from immigration, and hope that the additional nastiness immigration has seen in the last 4 years can be reduced.

[Genski92 93]

1 hour ago, Ohana2020 said:

It creates more questions than answers.

 

1.Will the temporary visas allow those family members to work? 

2.If not, who is going to pay them to rent a house, buy food/clothes?

3. If the sponsoring person is supposed to pay for it all, most likely he/she won't even agree to bring them all over to America, because unless you are a millionaire you can't afford it. Thus, this temporary visa is a useless thing?

4. If the "government" is going to pay them to stay here until the CG is available (which may still take years), then who exactly is paying for all of this, again and can you imagine what your streets will look like in a couple years? Etc. etc...

 

 

 

Absolutely!! 

[mymarriagejourney 113]

2 hours ago, Ohana2020 said:

It creates more questions than answers.

 

1.Will the temporary visas allow those family members to work? 

2.If not, who is going to pay them to rent a house, buy food/clothes?

3. If the sponsoring person is supposed to pay for it all, most likely he/she won't even agree to bring them all over to America, because unless you are a millionaire you can't afford it. Thus, this temporary visa is a useless thing?

4. If the "government" is going to pay them to stay here until the CG is available (which may still take years), then who exactly is paying for all of this, again and can you imagine what your streets will look like in a couple years? Etc. etc...

 

 

 

My brothers-in-law have pending F4 applications, and these are the questions I had also.  We very much want to have family around us, but how is that supposed to work if the temporary visas don't allow them to work?  If this comes to fruition, I'd love to know what this would entail.

[Ksenia_O 696]

18 hours ago, Mellamanlola said:

If you or a close family member of friend has not gone through an adjustment of status that is marriage based then your reasoning is invalid. Prior to 2016, an adjustment of status and a citizenship application would NEVER last more than 12 months at most, NEVER. A straightforward case? NEVER. Based on your nationality, wait times for your particular country of origin differs by A LOT, so those wait times may be a normal thing for you and yours but it is not for me or mines. 

"Never say never" -  my marriage-based AOS took more than 15 months. Same for my son. And it would've taken longer if  Congress person's didn't get involved after 12 months of wait

[Genski92 93]

This thread is  "Biden's Plan for US immigration" and not about each other personal opinion about the election vote result.

 

And if there's commenters who disagree because your side is blue or red or green or pink my goodness people just respect each other's choice

[Ohana2020 5]

2 hours ago, mymarriagejourney said:

My brothers-in-law have pending F4 applications, and these are the questions I had also.  We very much want to have family around us, but how is that supposed to work if the temporary visas don't allow them to work?  If this comes to fruition, I'd love to know what this would entail.

True. I hope they will have a well-thought mechanism for implementation of this plan, and not merely taking fro the 'rich' and feeding the 'poor'.

 

 

[Ohana2020 5]

I am not aware of the current timelines for spouse or fiance visas. Can someone please share with me why is it taking so long for some and why only a fraction of that time for others? 

Is there a difference if you file online or in papers?

Did the presidential suspension on certain types of visa speed the process of all other immigrant visa or not at all?

[MovingToFlorida 71]

5 minutes ago, Genski92 said:

This thread is  "Biden's Plan for US immigration" and not about each other personal opinion about the election vote result.

 

And if there's commenters who disagree because your side is blue or red or green or pink my goodness people just respect each other's choice

Yes! This! 👆👆👆

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[Cyberfx1024 7,980]

2 hours ago, Ohana2020 said:

I am not aware of the current timelines for spouse or fiance visas. Can someone please share with me why is it taking so long for some and why only a fraction of that time for others? 

Is there a difference if you file online or in papers?

Did the presidential suspension on certain types of visa speed the process of all other immigrant visa or not at all?

Covid, because they had to shut down the embassies for nonessential services. They just now started doing interviews again for spouses and K1s with a expedite. 

Edited November 9, 2020 by Cyberfx1024

[Ohana2020 5]

15 minutes ago, Cyberfx1024 said:

Covid, because they had to shut down the embassies for nonessential services. They just now started doing interviews again for spouses and K1s with a expedite. 

You mean COVID slowed down the process? 

Spouse visas were considered 'emergency visas' and were being processed even during the COVID. F, J and B and some work visas were not being processed. Which is why I am wondering if not issuing all those visas did push some cases forward for IR, CR, K visa applicants or not.

[Cyberfx1024 7,980]

20 minutes ago, Ohana2020 said:

You mean COVID slowed down the process? 

Spouse visas were considered 'emergency visas' and were being processed even during the COVID. F, J and B and some work visas were not being processed. Which is why I am wondering if not issuing all those visas did push some cases forward for IR, CR, K visa applicants or not.

It depends on the embassy on wither or not they were processed timely. The Philippines for example started doing spouses again a few months. Just because they were allowed to continue Covid doesn't mean that a particular embassy in a hard hit country was allowed to remain open. 

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[MovingToFlorida 71]

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