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    (ALIPAC) Federal rule to help speed visa process

    Federal rule to help speed visa process


    By Venita Jenkins

    Staff writer
    The Fayetteville Observer


    A new federal rule will reduce the amount of time illegal immigrants are separated from their American families.

    The Department of Homeland Security announced Jan. 2 that the rule would cut down the time for those who are in the process of obtaining visas to become U.S. citizens. The applicant must demonstrate that time apart from their U.S. spouse, child or parent would create an "extreme hardship."


    An individual can start the process of applying for the visa without leaving the U.S. If approved, the individual is required to go back to his or her home country to pick up the visa.

    The new rule goes into effect March 4.


    "The law is designed to avoid extreme hardship to U.S. citizens, which is precisely what this rule achieves," said Alejandro Mayorkas, director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, in a news release. "The change will have a significant impact on American families by greatly reducing the time family members are separated
    from those they rely upon."


    Families often have to spend several years apart from each other while the citizenship process progresses, a time period that can last several years, said Pilar Rocha-Goldberg, director of El Centro Hispano in Durham. The center is a grassroots community-based organization dedicated to strengthening the Hispanic/Latino community


    But William Gheen said the provision that allows individuals to return to their home country in an effort to get a green card has been defeated several times in Congress by lawmakers and political action groups. Gheen is president of the Americans for Legal Immigration Political Action Committee in Raleigh.


    "Current federal laws of the United States say that illegal immigrants on U.S. soil are prohibited from applying for legal status, so would anyone in D.C. or the media like to explain to all of us how these laws have been changed without corresponding legislation?" he said. "Who is calling the shots in America today? It certainly is not our Congress or citizens."



    Rocha-Goldberg said the new federal rule and the recent Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program are small steps toward immigration reform. The deferred action program delays deportation of young illegal immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children.


    "You can see it in different ways. The new rule is more of a long-term solution," she said. "The deferred action program is only temporary. Hopefully, it will help with comprehensive immigration reform and will help people stay here legally."

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