Bloomberg Law
December 19, 2017, 4:27 PM UTC

Outlook 2018: More Scrutiny, Enforcement for Employment Visas

Bloomberg Law - Staff Reports

Increased scrutiny of visa applications, greater enforcement, and a rollback of Obama administration regulations, programs, and guidance are likely to dominate immigration policy in 2018.

“It’s really been the first administration where immigration has been a high priority” and “an area of personal interest to the president,” Austin Fragomen of Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy in New York said. “That’s highly unusual,” Fragomen said during the Practising Law Institute’s Immigration and Naturalization Institute.

Agencies involved in the immigration process will remain focused on protecting U.S. workers, in line with President Donald Trump’s priorities. That focus includes implementing the president’s ...

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