Trump Govt Plans Changes to Skilled Worker Visas, Citizenship Tests

The Trump administration is planning to change the visa system for skilled foreign workers, a programme at the centre of a dispute between immigration hardliners and tech industry leaders, said the new director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).

- Hamed Aleaziz

WASHINGTON -

In an interview with The New York Times, Mr Joseph Edlow also said the test to become a US citizen was too easy and should change.

"It's very easy to kind of memorise the answers. I don't think we're really comporting with the spirit of the law," he said on July 24.

He illuminated how the agency at the heart of the country's immigration system would run in President Donald Trump's second term, at a time when Mr Trump has ordered a crackdown on immigration and mass deportations.