Immigration Agency Response to AI Order Lags Despite Head Start

The Department of Homeland Security and other agencies overseeing immigration have been slow to meet the goals of President Joe Biden’s executive order on artificial intelligence even though they already had undertaken steps to boost foreign talent pipelines well before the order’s release.

US Citizenship and Immigration Services updated its guidance two years ago to improve the availability of a temporary visa for workers with extraordinary ability as well as green cards for those with skills in the national interest.

The State Department earlier this year launched a long-awaited pilot for H-1B specialty occupation workers—who are heavily represented in the ...