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Visa News for Immigrants and Refugees.
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The organization changed its visual identity to reflects the next decade strategy and more fit with vision and goals of our orginization.
Recently the U.S. Department of State released the new Visa bulletin for the new fiscal year of 2023, starting on October 1st. The only change to the updated bulletin were to categories India EB-2 and EB-5. The change caused a regression of an estimated 2 years and 10 months. The DHS (Department of Homeland Security) managed to issue employment-based green cards for all of fiscal year 2022 but the government estimates that they failed to use about 60,000 family-based green cards. The green cards are lost and will be added to employment-based category for the new fiscal year.
As of the beginning of July 2022, there were over 11 million job openings in the U.S. and less the 6 million individuals to fill those openings. The labor shortage has hit a wide variety of industries in the United States, such as agriculture, the trucking industry, and the hospice sector. These industries are pushing for less restricting immigration work/labor policies.
So far farmers and farming advocates are pushing the senate to pass the Farm Workforce Modernization Act. The act would help create a path to citizenship, grant legal status, and allow seasonal workers to legally stay in the United States for longer. If this act is not passed industries expect the labor shortage to double over the next decade.
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