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WASHINGTON - President Joe Bidens immigration policy changes took shape Friday in a budget request that would eliminate border-wall funding, boost spending on care for unaccompanied migrant children to $3.3 billion and overhaul the way asylum seekers are handled at the Mexico border by dramatically increasing staffing to process their claims.

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden will recommit himself to overhauling the immigration system Wednesday during his first address to Congress, while signaling openness to Congress passing smaller parts of his agenda that have bipartisan support, including guaranteeing a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children.

The government plans to revise key laws and regulations covering immigration, foreign business and other sectors next year in order to draw more foreign direct investment.

PUTRAJAYA: Employers in the construction, manufacturing, plantation and agriculture sectors will be allowed to legally employ undocumented foreign workers under the Labour Recalibration Plan for undocumented immigrants, the Home Minister announced.

Laos is set to begin a fast-track immigration service next week that will allow Chinese nationals to cross the border more easily with shorter quarantine time amid the travel restrictions in place to prevent the spread of Covid-19.

Two foreigners have been arrested in Bangkok for allegedly entering the Kingdom illegally in defiance of the travel ban imposed by the Thai government to combat the Covid-19 pandemic.

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he signed an executive order to suspend U.S. immigration for the next 60 days, but he offered no other details about the scope of the directive in remarks to reporters at the White House.

An immigration officer at Songkhla’s Sadao border checkpoint has been infected by the Covid-19 virus, Pol Maj-General Peerawat Boonloy, who oversees the Immigration Division 6, said on Wednesday (April 22).

Around 400-500 Cambodian workers are stranded at the Aranyaprathet immigration checkpoint in Sakaew province after the checkpoint was closed today (March 23). It is expected to reopen only on April 14.

Laos has closed its four immigration checkpoints near Thailand’s Nakhon Phanom province, since it does not have enough medical personnel to screen for Covid-19 at the four places.

Thai Immigration Police has been closely coordinating with the Cambodian government regarding the “Westerdam” cruise ship docking at Sihanoukville, Cambodia on Thursday (February 13), Pol Maj-General Archayon Kraithong, commander of Immigration Police Division 3, said.

Chinese tourists in Chiang Mai are asking for permission from the Immigration Office in the province to extend their stay in Thailand, out of concerns of the coronavirus outbreak in China.