According to a policy document issued by the campaign of Joe Biden, who has been declared as the winner of the US election, the President-elect will work towards providing American citizenships to nearly 11 million undocumented immigrants, including over 500,000 from India.

Biden administration will also establish a minimum admission number of 95,000 refugees annually. The document says that Biden will increase the number of refugees coming to the US by setting the “the annual global refugee admissions target to 125,000.”

Biden “will also work with Congress to establish a minimum admissions number of 95,000 refugees annually,” it adds. 

“He (Biden) will immediately begin working with Congress to pass legislative immigration reform that modernises our system, with a priority on keeping families together by providing a roadmap to citizenship for nearly 11 million undocumented immigrants — including more than 500,000 from India,” the policy document says. 

It says that that Indian-Americans, a largely immigrant community, know firsthand the strength and resilience that immigrants bring to the US. 

The Biden administration will support family-based immigration and preserve family unification as a core principle of the US’ immigration system, which includes reducing the family visa backlog, the policy document says. 

The 77-year-old will remove the uncertainty for Dreamers by reinstating the DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) programme, which was launched by former president Barack Obama, explore all legal options to protect their families from inhumane separation. 

The DACA is an immigration policy that allows some individuals with unlawful presence in the US after being brought to the country as children to receive a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation and become eligible for a work permit in the US.

To be eligible for the programme, DACA recipients, often referred to as Dreamer, cannot have felonies or serious misdemeanours on their records.

In 2017, the Trump administration moved to end DACA but it was blocked by the US Supreme Court this year. His administration has scaled back the programme with Trump pledging to end it, leaving thousands of the programme’s beneficiaries in limbo.