While a labor shortage continues to affect critical industries in the United States, over one million noncitizens eagerly await the U.S. government to issue their work permits. Despite many already losing their jobs, U.S. immigration officials continue to struggle to address the significant backlog of immigration cases.
In the past two years, the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted nearly everything in our lives. Among those disruptions was a significant change to the labor market in which available positions exceeded the number of available workers, causing a labor shortage. Experts attribute the labor shortage to a number of potential causes, but some suggest a lack of immigrant labor is at least partially to blame.
A recent article by Bloomberg analyzed the status of immigrant labor in the United States, suggesting the cumulative effect of years of dysfunction in the American immigration system is contributing to a growing backlog of cases, effectively slowing the immigration system to a halt. As millions of jobs remain unfilled, millions of qualified noncitizens continue to await their work permits. Still, increasingly lengthy processing times prevent many noncitizens from being able to work.
The numbers clearly reflect the problem. According to USCIS data, the estimated waiting period for employment authorization (a work permit) has ballooned to as long as 12 months, up 3 months from 2020. Under federal law,...
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