Huge Trump-era and pandemic immigrant visa backlog poses challenge for Biden

[DonViejo]

By Bob Ortega, CNN Investigates

Updated 7:26 AM ET, Mon April 12, 2021

(CNN) - Even though President Joe Biden has moved to reverse many of his predecessor's anti-immigration policies, the consequences of those restrictive measures linger and have contributed to a massive backlog of nearly 2.6 million visa applications.

The backlog includes nearly half a million applicants who are "documentarily qualified" and ready for interviews, according to a recent legal filing by the State Department. Backlogs in some immigrant-visa categories are 50 or even 100 times higher than they were four years ago, at the start of the Trump administration.

Some of the backlogs are due to restrictions imposed in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. But some also spring from pre-pandemic Trump policies or actions that the Biden administration hasn't unwound.

The Biden administration is still reviewing or hasn't fully reversed some measures that slow or block processing, such as heightened background checks and questionable terrorism designations.

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https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/12/politics/biden-challenge-immigration-visa-backlog-invs/index.html

[FakeNoose]

1. This is further illustration that Chump's presidency was a big fat zero

For FOUR YEARS that man was paid to do nothing. How many of us would have kept our jobs if we did nothing for 4 years? That's a rhetorical question, since we already know the answer.

Chump was fired - let him stay fired.