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Grant Visas: Immigration System and State Department

grant visas: The State Department has ended an Obama-era program to grant visas to foreign entrepreneurs who want to start companies in the United States, according to CTV. It is more aggressively scrutinizing visas to skilled workers from other countries. In the meantime, his administration is busy making it harder, not easier, for skilled migrants to come work in the United States. And it is contemplating ending a provision that allows spouses of those skilled workers to be employed in the U.S. The administration and its backers contend it's trying to fix flaws in the existing, employer-centric skilled immigration system while advocating for a complete overhaul of America's immigration system. They're rolling back some of the extralegal measures that other administrations have taken. The stuff that they're actually doing is not so much restricting skilled immigration as enforcing the law, said Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies, which supports reducing immigration. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.