Family Immigration: Repairing our Broken Immigration System
Tagged: family, Immigration Policy Center, immigration reformToday, the Immigration Policy Center (IPC) releases the next in our series of “Solutions Papers,” Family Immigration: Repairing our Broken Immigration System. Family unification has always been a pillar of the U.S. legal immigration system. Since the first European settlers landed in the U.S., immigrants have come with their families to build better lives in the American; to work, become entrepreneurs, and contribute to our economy.
The numerical caps for family-based immigration have not been updated for decades, and demand for visas clearly exceeds supply. Because there are more people who qualify than visas available, many close family members of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents must wait for years, even decades, to reunite with their family members. Furthermore, per-country numerical limits and processing delays create additional backlogs. Reforming our broken immigration system will require us to transform our family-based immigration system, clear out the backlogs, recapture unclaimed family-based visas, reset numerical caps and allow law-abiding families to reunite with loved ones in a humane and reasonable timeline. This paper lays out the key principles for family immigration within the context of comprehensive immigration reform.
To read the paper in its entirety see:
Family Immigration: Repairing our Broken Immigration System
(IPC Focusing on the Solutions series, January 15, 2010
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January 17th, 2010
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