Biden plans to expand legal immigration

US President Joe Biden plans to rebuild and expand legal immigration by cutting processing time, costs and security hoops; cut backlogs; and fix the H-1B visa programme that allows US companies to hire foreign employees, which have been overwhelmingly from India.

The New York Times has reported citing a blueprint that this effort will run parallel to the White House-backed ambitious immigration reform legislation before US Congress. The blueprint, titled “DHS Plan to Restore Trust in Our Legal Immigration System” (DHS is the department of homeland security, which oversees immigration), is only in draft stage and will go through several versions before finalisation.