المملكة: After the Washington attack.. America reduces the duration of work permits for refugees
The administration of the US President decided Thursday reduced the validity period of for refugees, asylum seekers and other migrants from five years to 18 months.
This step came, and is the latest within the framework of the comprehensive administration campaign on Resettlement Program It also comes after two National Guard members were shot by an Afghan man last week, who had entered the United States under a resettlement program following the US military withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. USCIS Director Joseph Edlow pointed to the November 26 shooting in Washington, D.C., as a reason to move on permits. Work. Edlow said in a statement "Reducing the maximum period of validity of a work permit will ensure that those seeking to work in the United States do not threaten public safety or promote anti-American ideologies." He added: "After the attack on two National Guard members in our nation’s capital by an alien who had been admitted into the country by the previous administration, it has become more clear that USCIS must conduct more frequent screenings of aliens." The agency said the work permit move will apply to immigrants accepted as refugees, immigrants who have been granted asylum, and those whose deportation has been suspended. The Trump administration on Tuesday suspended immigration applications for citizens of 19 countries already subject to travel restrictions. Permanent residency (green card) and citizenship have also been suspended for people coming from those countries, including Afghanistan and Yemen. Haiti, Venezuela, Sudan, and Somalia. Trump campaigned on the basis of a pledge to deport millions of irregular immigrants, and after the shooting of two National Guard members, he said that he intends to "Permanently stopping immigration from all third world countries".Work permit
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