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What Will the US Election Mean for American Immigration?

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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing American Immigration matters. 

This is kind of a general video. I don't really like to do op-ed videos if you will, opinion pieces, but this is going to be an opinion piece because I have had a number of clients and folks that watch this channel and friends too ask me "Well what is going to happen with US immigration after the election?" Well the short answer, at least in the immediately foreseeable future is, "Not much." I actually don't see much changing no matter who wins the election”. I don't see much changing with respect to how Immigration matters proceed in the immediately foreseeable future after the election; by immediately foreseeable I would say at least 6 or 9 months. I think things are just going to remain as they are. For example, at the beginning of the Trump Administration notwithstanding the rather hard line this Administration takes with respect to Immigration, I found the overall process to be much the same as it was under the Obama Administration in the first days of the Trump Administration. There just wasn't a great deal of change. Somewhere between about the 9 month mark and now, there was a real change. I think I would say about 14 months in, it really started sinking in with cases that we were seeing processing. Just different ways of dealing with administrative matters. I mean there were a myriad ways in which in my opinion these cases got more difficult to deal with, just kind of again on an administrative level. That is really the only term to use because that is the powers they have been using to change the system I guess. 

That stated, longer term, "yes elections have consequences and if the party in power should change, if the challenger in this case former vice President Joe Biden should wins the election, I suspect we will see major changes to Immigration. Again probably sometime about the 12 - 14 month mark after the election, after he has taken office. It will take a little while to see any real change occur. Bureaucracies move slowly and even where you have a major change with respect to Administration, things move slowly. What happens in the event of a Trump win? Well that I would say probably not a lot is going to change.

Now things may get a little bit different on the back end or some time in 2021 I expect with respect to the fact that a lot of these COVID restrictions will presumably and hopefully be pulled off so that we can actually see, especially Department of State, US Embassy processing, proceed more quickly. 

But that being said, in the immediate future don't expect anything much to change a day, a week or even a month after the election. Yeah 4, 5, 6, 7 months perhaps. Get out to 9 - 12 months, yes I definitely think we will probably be seeing some things starting to seep into the system as far as changes. Then out past that, yes if there has been a change in administration I think it is very safe to presume that we will see a change at least maybe cosmetically but probably a substantive change in the way the Immigration system is working as of the time of the making of this video.