Lawmakers in the US agitation the fate of millions of Illegal immigrants, while the plight of Legal Permanent Residents (LPRs, a.k.a. Green Card Holders) goes about unnoticed.
Washington, D.C. -- The Issue: Many acknowledged abiding association (green agenda holders) are currently active in the United States, afar from their spouses and baby children. They are cat-and-mouse for their I-130 petitions (immigration appliance for apron and accessory children) to be approved. Statutory after limitations on accessible visas, accompanying with clearing backlogs and authoritative delays, causes cat-and-mouse times of 5 years or more. Legal immigrants feel that it is arbitrary and atrocious to breach up nuclear families. During this continued wait, the adopted citizen apron and adolescent accouchement are not accustomed to access the United States, even for a abrupt visit. The abiding residents, on the added hand, have to abide predominantly in the United States and appropriately the web of US clearing laws atrociously separates affiliated couples from anniversary added and from adolescent children. More about the affair at the http://unitefamilies.org/faq/index.html [FAQ area of the Unitefamilies.org website]
The Legislative solution: Congress has alone to abolish the anniversary allocation on visas for actual ancestors of acknowledged abiding residents, thereby allowance up the balance and eliminating the continued wait. Legislation alien by Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska would accomplish that change. An addition solution, offered by Representative Robert Andrews of New Jersey and Representative Sheila Jackson-Lee of Texas (HR 1823), would acquiesce the apron and accessory accouchement of green-card holders to access the United States on a appropriate "V visa," and to abide actuality while cat-and-mouse for their clearing petitions to be approved.
In 2000, the Immigration Family Equity or LIFE Act created a specia* V" visa, acceptance spouses or accouchement of green-card holders into the United States afterwards three years if they were still cat-and-mouse for their paperwork to be processed. This bill asleep in 2001, and it was not renewed. Today, sponsors of House Bill 1823 and UniteFamilies are blame the legislation that would reinstate the V visa.
Amending accoutrement of V-visa charge not necessarily be the alone solution; Amending Immigration and Nationality Act to extend the analogue of ‘immediate family’ to cover spouses and accessory accouchement of acknowledged immigrants and US citizens will aswell serve as a complete solution. This will accredit spouses and accessory accouchement of acknowledged immigrants to accomplish use of absolute non-immigrant K-visa category”, states unitefamilies.org. Group associates accept already requested offices of Senators John McCain and Edward Kennedy to abode ancestors affinity affair of acknowledged immigrants in their accessible bipartisan clearing ameliorate bill.
Refer to the website for aldermanic alternatives http://www.unitefamilies.org/solution/alternatives.html
Unitefamilies.org associates feel that the moral ability of alliance in clearing ameliorate is accepting abandoned by lawmakers; Matthew 19:6 "What accordingly God has abutting let no man put asunder", care to be connected with U.S. law. That is one acumen the UniteFamilies.org has been advancement abutment for the accent in the Congress to amusement the spouses and accessory accouchement of acknowledged abiding association as 'immediate relatives', because that would break the LPR botheration at its root. In an interview, Maine citizen Ekaterina Atanasova, a affiliate of Unitefamilies.org says "We’re taxpaying, law-abiding (residents), and we shouldn’t accept to accept amid our ancestors and our country," Atanasova said. "No one cares about acknowledged immigration."
In a contempo Boston Globe column, Jeff Jacoby empathizes on the affair adage “It is no advantage to breach husbands from wives, or parents from adolescent children. What is accepting done to immigrants … is both biased and unwise. Above all, it is base of a nation complete by immigrants.”
Acting on this bill will accomplish the affiance President Bush fabricated during his 2000 campaign: “If we are a nation that believes in ancestors values, we charge to advice husbands and wives and accouchement of abiding association be accustomed to appointment while the INS is administration their paperwork.” A accumulation of acknowledged immigrants declared today “four years and a reelection later, we are still cat-and-mouse for President Bush to bear on his promise.”
Mohan B
UNITEFAMILIES.ORG
http://www.unitefamilies.org
The Author, is with the 700-member, nonprofit organization, UniteFamlies, founded in 2002 to re-institute legislation authoritative it easier for the families of acknowledged association to appear to the United States. He aswell blogs about the affair at http://unite.rediffblogs.com.
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