The new head of the American Citizenship and Immigration Services shared in a recent interview with the New York Times on Thursday how the Trump administration would be making changes to the visa system for skilled workers and looking to make the test for U.
S. citizenship more difficult.
Joseph Edlow mentioned more details about how the current test is just too simple and not very difficult. It’s very easy to kind of memorize the replies, and they are not comforting with the spirit of the law.
The initial Trump administration began a version of the test with an expanded pool of questions, which was later rolled back under former President Biden.
Speaking to the Times, the government planned to return to another version of the test from the first term.
Edlow spoke to the Times in more detail about how the administration would seek to modify the H1-B visa program for skilled individuals by prioritizing people who earn higher wages.
‘I really do think that how the H-1B needs to be used, and this is one of my favorite phrases, is to, along with a lot of other parts of immigration, supplement, not replace, the US economy and US workers’- they added.

