On July 30, 2021, the Senate approved Biden's appointment of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ur Mendoza Jaddou by a vote of 47-34.

Ur Mendoza Jaddou became the first female immigration director in the history of the United States, and also the first Arab and Mexican woman to be sworn in as the director of the United States Immigration Service. This is consistent with the diversity of official backgrounds advocated and practiced by Biden.

Since Trump kicked out the former Director of Immigration Lee Francis Cissna in 2019, the USCIS has not formally confirmed the new Director of Immigration. It has been presiding over the work on behalf of the Director of Immigration. This time it was finally confirmed after two years. Director of the Immigration Department, is it good or bad for friends applying for immigration? What is the immigration policy tendency of the new Director of Immigration Department?

Similar to her immediate boss, the Secretary of Homeland Security and former immigration director Alejandro Mayorkas, Jaddou’s parents are also immigrants, her father is Iraqi, and her mother is Mexican.

Jaddou used to be the General Counsel of the Obama Administration's Immigration Bureau, under her jurisdiction more than 300 immigration lawyers, and worked with Mayorkas. Similar experiences gave them a natural sympathy for immigrants and refugees, and also made Mayorkas very confident in Jaddou's appointment. He said: "Jaddou will will administer our nation's immigration system fairly and justly.

Ur Mendoza Jaddou has twenty years of experience in immigration law, policy and administration. Jaddou's appointment has received support from many sources. The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Illinois Democrat Richard Durbin, said: "Jaddou may be the most qualified person for this position among the nominated officials. The US Chamber of Commerce also submitted an open letter in support of Jaddou's appointment to the Senate on July 30, stating that Jaddou will ensure the interests of the American business community in the field of immigration.

In addition to the General Counsel of the Immigration Bureau, Jaddou also served as the General Counsel of the Immigration Branch of the House Judiciary Committee. After Trump took office, Jaddou left the government and founded the non-governmental organization DHS Watch (DHS is the abbreviation of the Department of Homeland Security), on which he continued to criticize Trump's immigration policy. For example, she criticized Trump's tightening of immigration, which caused the USCIS to have to give two-thirds of its employees unpaid leave (furlough) in 2020, because the USCISdoes not rely on financial allocations but on the application fees paid by the applicants. 

After taking office, Jaddou has two important and urgent tasks:

One is to shorten the immigration processing time (many EB-5 applicants have waited too long, but she has no right to resolve the issue of scheduling);

The second is to solve the financial problems of the USCIS' (may raise the application fee).

As a descendant of immigrants, as well as her previous participation in immigration policies and laws and legislation, and her attitude towards immigrants, she is expected to implement a relaxed immigration policy, formulate and implement policies that restrict immigration from those of the previous directors, which may change the treatment of the USCIS. The attitude of immigrants and non-immigrants has reversed the trend of strict restrictions on immigration during the Trump era, and returned the United States to its position as an "immigrant country", let us wait and see.