Delays processing millions of visas, work permits, green cards, naturalization petitions and cases languishing in immigration courts are so severe that experts say they can't be resolved without significant reforms.
If the government continues to delay his family’s petition, Awad said, “I will choose my family and I will return again to Egypt and live there forever, because my family is the most important part of my life.”Fleeing poverty and abusive family members in Guatemala, 41-year-old Angi — who asked to be identified by a nickname out of fear for her family’s safety — and her then-5-year-old daughter traveled to Tijuana and presented themselves to U.S. border agents in September 2017.
Immigrant advocates say some employers still don’t understand the extensions. Though Angi hasn’t lost her job, she did lose her driver’s license for several months when her permit card expired. Delays are also discouraging workers. For some people with work visas, problems arise if their employer doesn’t start green card sponsorship early enough to account for delays, said Dagmar Butte, an immigration lawyer in Portland, Ore.
“When you make it so difficult to comply, and the timelines are so long, and you have a worker shortage in the country, you hit a critical mass point real fast,” Butte said. “For many people there just aren’t very many alternatives, and then, yes, they do end up having to go home.”After pandemic restrictions eased, the Biden administration expanded humanitarian programs for immigrants displaced by war and political upheaval.
Venezuelans celebrate their new Temporary Protected Status designation by the Biden administration in March 2021 in Miami.
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