Will 2013 finally be the year for immigration reform? Many who follow the issue seem to think so and they’re watching the Senate’s proposed “Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013” with interest.
Perhaps few people are as intimately familiar with the 840-plus-page immigration bill as Rebecca Peters. The director and counsel for legislative affairs for American Council on International Personnel, Peters has been following the act since its conception and, should it pass in its current form, she says it has lots of good news for employers. Reform would “clear the backlogs” on those currently employed in the U.S., she says, who, at the present, work here but can’t be promoted, change jobs or even shift job locations.
