In issuing a new Presidential order, Biden has revoked Trump proclamation that blocked many green card applicants from entering the United States.
The order by former Trump, known as Presidential Proclamation 100014, cited a need to protect US jobs amid high unemployment rates caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
Trump had frozen "green cards" for new immigrants and halted temporary work visas for skilled workers, managers and au pairs in the H-1B, H-4, H-2B, L-1 and J categories, he said to protect jobs.
The White House statement overturned Trump's order measure saying Trump’s ban separated families and “does not advance the interests of the United States”.
“To the contrary, it harms the United States, including by preventing certain family members of United States citizens and lawful permanent residents from joining their families here,” the statement reads.
"It also harms industries in the United States that utilize talent from around the world. And it harms individuals who were selected to receive the opportunity to apply for, and those who have likewise received, immigrant visas through the Fiscal Year 2020 Diversity Visa Lottery. Proclamation 10014 has prevented these individuals from entering the United States, resulting, in some cases, in the delay and possible forfeiture of their opportunity to receive Fiscal Year 2020 diversity visas and to realize their dreams in the United States," the order continued.
Prior to the shutdown, about 65,000 of the visas were issued each year. The U.S. tech industry relied heavily on H-1B visa holders, most of them from South Asia, to fill jobs in the industry.
As many as 120,000 family-based preference visas will benefit from Biden's order allowing families to be reunited, according to the American Immigrant Lawyers Association. Immigrants could not bring over family members unless they were U.S. citizens applying for visas for their spouses or children under the age of 21.
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