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US to begin processing worker visas suspended under Trump

Biden administration allows pandemic-era restrictions decried by businesses to lapse

The Biden administration will resume issuing visas to overseas workers after allowing a Trump-era ban to expire, in a further easing of coronavirus pandemic immigration restrictions.

Former president Donald Trump banned new issuances of worker visas commonly used by multinational businesses last year in a bid to force companies to hire American workers amid the pandemic, with unemployment levels having soared. That ban expired on Wednesday.

The state department confirmed on Thursday that it would begin processing applications for the previously suspended visas, and asked people who had been rejected because of the presidential ban to reapply. 

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