6 Priorities For Employment-Based Immigration Reform

As the U.S. painfully plods toward a leadership transition on Jan. 20, the immigration world anxiously awaits changes from the new administration.

Most of the chatter has focused on anticipated policy shifts in the humanitarian aspects of immigration - asylum, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, family separation and unification, and priorities in removal of the undocumented.

But if you believe that foreign professionals and skilled workers are good - indeed, necessary - for our economic recovery, you would add a number of doable and impactful changes to the immigration wish list for the Biden administration. While there are many to choose from, here are just six ways in which the new team in D.C. can address some of the damage wrought by the outgoing administration and clear some of the barriers preventing foreign talent's contributions to our recovering economy.