The American Immigration Lawyers Association has released text with its recommendations for swift action that can be sent to members of Congress and the Biden administration. The actions include:
- Finalizing regulations, particularly the H-1B and H-2 modernization rules and a temporary final rule that extends work authorization for 540 days.
- Protecting vulnerable populations who may be subject to unnecessary detention and enforcement.
- Expediting adjudications for populations at risk of deportation, including renewals of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), Temporary Protected Status (TPS), and work permit applications.
- Prioritizing visa adjudications for those who were subject to travel bans.
- Extending TPS designations of countries that will expire in 2025.
- Making permanent the domestic visa renewal program so essential employees do not need to travel overseas to complete visa processing.
- Withdrawing or rescinding Trump-era regulations that were not finalized or implemented and that could be rapidly implemented by the incoming administration.
- Withdrawing regulations that undermine fairness and due process in immigration courts and that would harm DACA recipients.
- Rescinding regulations that unfairly restrict access to asylum and jeopardize the lives of those needing humanitarian protection.
