State lawmakers are eyeing the creation of a New York-only work visa for migrants to help ease the Big Apple’s asylum seeker crisis — but the move could conflict with strict federal immigration laws.

New York City and Albany are desperately searching for ways to qualify many of the roughly 110,000 new arrivals for work to help get them out of the overwhelmed local shelter system, shrink the estimated overall three-year $12 billion price tag for the crisis and dodge budget cuts of up to 15% at municipal agencies.

“In the absence of Federal action to issue work permits, the State must lead and issue the work permits on its own,” said state Assemblywoman Jennifer Rajkumar (D-Queens), a close ally of city Mayor Eric Adams, in a statement Tuesday.

“It is time for the State to take ownership over the migrant crisis,” she said.

At least three other lawmakers have floated the idea: fellow Queens Democratic lawmaker and Assemblywoman Catalina Cruz and at least two Democratic state senators, Brooklyn’s Zellnor Myrie and The Bronx’s Luis Sepúlveda.

“The federal government’s lack of action, it’s almost embarrassing,” Cruz told Politico New York.

A White House official, speaking on the condition of anonymity at a phone briefing with city reporters Tuesday, did not slam the door shut on the idea but noted that regulating immigration and work authorizations is a federal responsibility.

Federal law requires that migrants wait roughly 180 days before they can even apply for work papers, a process that can then take upwards of another two months to complete.

The lawmakers’ push comes as Republicans and some Democrats have called on Gov. Kathy Hochul as well as the leaders of the Assembly and state Senate — Speaker Carl Heastie (D-The Bronx) and Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D-Westchester) — for a special legislative session over the crisis.

Rajkumar also wants the lawmakers to come back to Albany to pass a bill that would block suburban and upstate counties from barring migrants from arriving in their areas.

Hochul, a Democrat, responded cooly to the idea of a special legislative session on the migrant crisis when asked about it last week but did not completely rule it out.

“With respect to a special session, certainly I’m entertaining all of our options right now,” Hochul said. “We’re working closely with the mayor to resolve this.”

Additional reporting by Craig McCarthy