ASIA AM 10 Lecture 13: Week 7 Monday lecture notes: 1990 amendments
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Week 7 monday: 1990 amendments: 1990 amendments to 1965 immigration law, distributed visas based on two preferences: family reunification and employment, numerical limitations: worldwide cap and a country/territorial limit. Immediate relatives remain outside restrictions: country and global limitations, 226,000 family reunification visas and 140,000 employment visas worldwide, country limitation: 7% of worldwide quotas (25,620 per country for both categories, problematic because some countries (eg china, india, brazil, In practice, it is more difficult for poc to enter than caucasians. Still favors europeans: america is still a gatekeeping nation, family reunification under 1990 amendments, family reunification preferences (hing, 85, only citizens can petition for married children and adult to enter the us, not permanent residents. ), art), outstanding professors or researchers, and executives or managers of multinational companies: professionals with advanced degrees or people with exceptional abilities, skilled workers, professionals, or other workers (no longer unskilled workers, special immigrants.
