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The NAM filed an amicus brief in the Western District of Washington supporting a challenge to the federal government’s failure to fulfill its duty to timely process employment authorization documents for two classes of noncitizens who temporarily live in the United States: H-4 and L-2 visa-holders, the spouses of H-1B specialty-occupation workers and L-1 intra-company transferees, respectively. As detailed in the NAM’s brief, the government’s unjustified processing delays are currently freezing thousands of workers out of their employment, creating significant hardships both for families that rely on continued employment through H-4 and L-2 visas and for their employers—including many NAM members—that depend on the irreplaceable talents and knowledge of their H-4 and L-2 employees. The lawsuit seeks judicial intervention under the Administrative Procedure Act to compel the Department of Homeland Security to process H-4 and L-2 work authorizations with haste.

Happily the parties resolved the case prior to a court decision.