"An incoming administration may have its own priorities, but world events end up dictating what you actually work on," Melmed said. In previewing the Biden administration's business immigration priorities for the year, the trio spoke about the significant number of pending cases and increased processing times inherited from the previous administration, as well as problems that President Joe Biden could not have foreseen. Melmed spoke on a panel with firm colleagues Tiffany Derentz, senior counsel, and Eileen Lohmann, senior associate, at the SHRM Employment Law & Compliance Conference 2022 on March 28 in Washington, D.C.
The Biden administration's efforts to speed up processing are positive but may not be sufficient to meet the challenges of the backlogs and the humanitarian crises in Afghanistan and Ukraine, which are siphoning away resources, said Lynden Melmed, a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of global immigration law firm Berry Appleman & Leiden. It also announced new internal backlog reduction goals and progress toward improving access to employment authorization documents (EADs), which are crucial to foreign workers and the organizations that employ them. The agency issued a final rule expanding premium processing to additional employment-based immigration applications and petitions. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced March 29 new actions to help reduce caseload backlogs and improve processing times, problems that were recently exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and tightening resource constraints.
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