U.S. Immigration Policy on Permanent Admissions

[摘要] This report discusses the four major principles underlie current U.S. policy on permanent immigration: the reunification of families, the admission of immigrants with needed skills, the protection of refugees, and the diversity of admissions by country of origin. Against competing priorities for increased immigration are those who offer options to scale back immigration levels, with options ranging from limiting family-based legal permanent residents to the immediate relatives of U.S. citizens to confining employment-based legal permanent residents exceptional, extraordinary, or outstanding individuals.

[发布日期] 2010-12-20 [发布机构] Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

[关键词] Immigration;Aliens;Immigration policy -- U.S.