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... persists to this day but also the ways in which U.S. immigration policies have reinforced and sanctioned that ... of 2002, which transferred nearly all the functions of the Immigration and Naturalization Service to the newly-created ... of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS), and Immigration and Customs ...
September 13, 2021
President's Message
Soon after the U.S. government’s hasty and chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan last summer, the United States received over 80,000 Afghan evacuees, many of whom were at added risk due to their association with the U.S. government during the two-decade war. Ninety percent of these migrants entered the country on humanitarian parole (HP), which allows them to live and work in the U.S. for two years, but does not provide a path to permanent residency, leaving them in legal limbo. The Afghan Adjustment Act (AAA), would allow Afghans with humanitarian parole to apply for permanent legal status and would expand the categories of Afghans eligible for Special Immigrant Visas (SIVs).
October 6, 2022
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