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Immigration,
Government

Nov. 7, 2023

US must improve its immigration system, or lose its competitive edge

Business leaders confronted with managing growing labor shortages and low domestic workforce participation numbers feel the brunt of how this State Department-driven practice works in direct conflict with the ability to use employment-based immigration pathways that would otherwise benefit American business.

Christopher Richardson

President and General Counsel
BDV Solutions

Immigration

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Visa retrogression has cast a burden on all actors within the U.S. immigration system.

For foreign nationals that turn to the United States for economic and civil mobility – they are met with processing gridlocks; for immigration lawyers, they face an unpredictable system; for employers, they are unable to supplement the workforce with willing and able foreign workers. Business leaders confronted with managing growing labor shortages and l...

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