The brand new head of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Companies said in an interview with The New York Occasions Thursday that the Trump administration would make adjustments to the visa system for expert staff and look to make the check for U.S. citizenship tougher.
“The check because it’s laid out proper now, it’s not very troublesome,” mentioned Joseph Edlow, who assumed the function in mid-July. “It’s very straightforward to form of memorize the solutions. I don’t suppose we’re actually comporting with the spirit of the regulation.”
The primary Trump administration instituted a model of the check with an expanded pool of questions that was later rolled again beneath former President Biden. Edlow advised the Occasions that the federal government deliberate to return to a model of the check from the primary time period.
Edlow additionally advised the Occasions that the administration would search to change the H1-B visa program for expert staff by prioritizing individuals who will earn increased wages.
“I actually do suppose that the best way H-1B must be used, and that is one in every of my favourite phrases, is to, together with loads of different components of immigration, complement, not supplant, U.S. economic system and U.S. companies and U.S. staff,” Edlow mentioned.
This system was a flashpoint amongst Trump’s allies in December, earlier than the president took workplace. Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy confronted backlash from the MAGA base after they defended using this system to rent extremely expert engineers.
Alongside an aggressive push to deport immigrants, Trump additionally took aim at a number of avenues for authorized immigration in the beginning of his time period. A telephone app run by Customs and Border used in the course of the Biden administration to register asylum claims now permits immigrants to register their departures from the US in the event that they select to self-deport.