The American president wants to simplify the issuance of residence permits and work permits to immigrant spouses of American citizens and their children.
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This is a major issue in the presidential campaign. American head of state Joe Biden will put in place regularization measures which could benefit hundreds of thousands of people, the White House announced on Tuesday June 18.
The American president thus intends to facilitate the issuance of residence permits and work permits to immigrant spouses of American citizens and their children, according to a press release from the American executive. “This measure will protect approximately half a million spouses of American citizens, and approximately 50,000 immigrant children under the age of 21”according to the White House.
Joe Biden announced at the beginning of June a very clear tightening of his migration policy to deal with the arrivals of migrants at the border with Mexico. But the 81-year-old Democrat, keen not to alienate progressive voters or voters of foreign origin, at the same time praises the benefits of regulated immigration, through measures such as those announced Tuesday.
Joe Biden also wants to speed up the work visa procedure for certain immigrants who have obtained a higher education diploma in the United States and have received a job offer in the country. The measure will apply in particular to beneficiaries of a program protecting immigrant minors, put in place in 2012 when Barack Obama was president and whose twelfth anniversary Joe Biden will celebrate on Tuesday at the White House.
