Cornell's Migration and Human Rights Program: Mobility Matters: Why Worker Portability Should Drive Reform of Employment-Based Visas

Cornell's Migration and Human Rights Program has released a new white paper, Mobility Matters: Why Worker Portability Should Drive Reform of Employment-Based Visas.  The paper argues that improving workers’ ability to change employers should be a central consideration in efforts to reform temporary employment-based immigration.

Developed by the Program’s Immigration Law and Policy Fellows, the paper reflects rare consensus among experts with backgrounds spanning federal administrations or congressional offices of both parties, business, labor, academia, and immigrant rights advocacy. Rather than proposing comprehensive immigration reform, the white paper advances a targeted set of recommendations designed to strengthen employers’ access to talent, improve worker protections, and make the employment-based immigration system more responsive to the modern labor market.