AI Order Spurs Call for More Access to Easier Green Card Process

Industry groups and immigration advocates are urging the US Labor Department to exempt a wide swath of occupations from requirements for sponsoring foreign workers for permanent residency as the agency considers revisiting those rules in response to an executive order on artificial intelligence technology.

Microsoft Corp., for example, told the DOL that the agency should “pre-certify” a broad range of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics positions as having labor shortages in an acknowledgment of how job roles in the modern economy can be interdisciplinary and span several classifications.

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