Green Card Salvage Pitched in Homeland Security Funding Bill (1)

U.S. officials could salvage unused green cards from the past two years under a Senate spending bill released Monday.

The proposal would allow U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to recapture family- and employment-based immigrant visa numbers from fiscal 2020 and 2021 that would otherwise go to waste after the agency was unable to grant applications fast enough because of the Covid-19 pandemic and bureaucratic delays.

“These changes would ensure that United States Citizens could reunify with their families and would help the economy by permitting employers access to necessary workers as the law proscribes,” a release from the Appropriations Homeland ...