Bloomberg Law: Democrats Urge Biden: Fix Migrant Work Permit Backlog This Year

Congressional Democrats Tuesday pressed the Department of Homeland Security to clear a backlog of 1.4 million work permit applications for migrants before the end of the year.

Despite several policy changes to address wait times at US Citizenship and Immigration Services, more than 900,000 immigrants seeking their first work permits and half a million more looking to renew the documents remain “at the mercy of USCIS’s bureaucratic processing delays,” according to a letter from 70 House and Senate Democrats led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).

Many temporary visa holders and people with humanitarian protections like asylum seekers must apply for Employment Authorization Documents before they can legally work in the US. Lawmakers urged the administration to act before Biden leaves office at the beginning of next year.

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