Bill to allow permanent residents' kin to visit US

A senior Democrat lawmaker has introduced a legislation in the US House of Representatives which will allow relatives of legal permanent residents to visit the country on a temporary visa during the pendency of their application for permanent citizenship.
"This legislation will fix a harsh provision in our current immigration system that keeps permanent resident aliens separated from their spouses and children, often for periods of several years," New Jersey Democrat Frank Pallone said.
The "Spousal Reunification Act" will permit non-immigrant visitors, who are married to or are children of US green card holders residing and working in this country, to visit the US.
Currently, the relatives of legal permanent residents are not allowed to visit the US while they wait for approval of their application.
At present the families of US permanent aliens remain separated owing to the long duration for processing of the application, which is several years in some cases. "This bill would simply make it easier for family members to come to the US on a temporary basis, for events such as holidays and weddings and for those children who wish to attend school," he added.
Pallone said his legislation is necessary, because current law prejudges non-immigrant visitors who have petitioned for permanent residency. The lawmaker noted that other types of legal immigrants are able to "sponsor" or bring along family members on their visa during their time in the US.

I think this is very-very important Bill for us. There are several groups working on to unite our voices so the legislators can hear the buzz. Let’s help them and ourselves.

Here is the link to one of the group.


http://www.unitefamilies.org/eng/action/index.html

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Express something, if you think it will benefit us overall.

Guys, at least go to the above site and sign the petition.

did it............thanks

just became a citizen last month.. don't want any immigrants any more into my country...

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HA HA HA HA HA ....................khabardar I also became a us citizen recently. it's a bad thing to say that you don't wantany immigrants anymore in this country, you and i started out as an immigrant, you got to remember that buddy. thaks rnmn

rnmn,

you better shut your mouth and keep working on your own issues. THere are millions of immigrant who are living here astray from their family. If you can not empathize those people, at least have sympathy for them. I wish all immigrants in this country be able to bring their children and spouse and their loved ones. I have helped forwarded this links for a while. We neeeeeeeeed it. Thank you KINA KINA for opening this thread.

Sorry Rnmm. THis message for KHABARDAR. I apologize for the print mistake

Thanks Kina_Kina for this info. I hope it becomes law and all GC Holders will be united with their families. I don't understand the present law which I think is very unfair.

Thanks to Pallone and Kina Kina. I have already signed the petition earlier. This legislation is very very important.

c'mmon guys......do it now.

tks.

Let's call the congressmen or write letters. We have to raise our voices!

Guys, join the unitfamilies.org's message group. They have more than 2500 members sharing their thoughts and keep everyone updated on where things are. For example, they have teleconference on next saturday, May the 5th, at around 3:00PM. Anybody can join and involve in the talks.

Gre8 job guys.......

All of us living in US should raise our voice for this issue.

tks.

Contacting congressmen through writing, email or traditional mail has significant impact than we think. Believe me, these politicians are not like ours. Unitefamilies has links to find out our pericular representative in th house, sample letters to teach us how to write to legislators and all. Again being in loop is the great way get yourself informed.

Here is the text of the Bill!

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:H.R.1628:

Let's keep this thread active to make everybody informed.

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People are going on the street for this, lets support them by doing at least something.

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Common Guys, express your feelings on how it should be and all. Don't anybody think it is important.