HIAS Pennsylvania can only serve refugees if they are allowed into the country. We can only help support immigrants with legal services if vulnerable immigrants are given protections from the government. You can advocate for just policies for refugees and immigrants by calling your representative, protesting, and more.
What’s Happening in Immigration Right Now?
Do you want to advocate for your immigrant friends, family, and neighbors, but don’t know where to start? We can help!
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Despite the lack of action taken by USCIS, our team at HIAS Pennsylvania is working hard to ensure that Liberian refugees have this pathway to citizenship.
immigrationimpact.com/2020/07/02/liberian-refugee-immigration-fairness
USCIS Hasn’t Approved a Single Person for Liberian Legalization Program
immigrationimpact.com
A program created in late 2019 to allow certain Liberian noncitizens in the United States to become lawful permanent residents (LPRs) is falling far short of its potential, according to a new report. ...The proposed asylum ban will essentially abolish the asylum system as we know it.
Join us in submitting a public comment against the asylum ban today!
HIAS PA’s Public Comment Toolkit: drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1XypaN-HaFKsV5m8BRg1x2dZ5cvhKeSA-
americasvoice.org/press_releases/gutting-the-asylum-system-again-and-again/
Gutting the Asylum System Again and Again… | America's Voice
americasvoice.org
The Trump administration is proposing a new regulation that all but guts the American asylum system enacted by Congress decades ago, but without a single act by Congress. The American public will have...More information on the new ICE regulations regarding international students at US schools.
Sign the petition here: petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/allow-f-1-students-stay-us-through-fall-semester-if-instruction...🚨 ICE just told students in the US on student visas that if their school is going online-only this fall, the students must depart the United States and cannot remain through the fall semester. This is unacceptable.
www.ice.gov/news/releases/sevp-modifies-temporary-exemptions-nonimmigrant-students-taking-online-...
"As college students across the United States and around the world contemplate what their upcoming semester might look like, the federal guidance limits options for international students and leaves them with an uncomfortable choice: attend in-person classes during a pandemic or take them online from another country."
Sign the petition in support of international students here: petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/allow-f-1-students-stay-us-through-fall-semester-if-instruction...
www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/07/06/888026874/ice-foreign-students-must-leav...?
ICE: Foreign Students Must Leave The U.S. If Their Colleges Go Online-Only This Fall
www.npr.org
New federal rules will prohibit international students from completing fully online courses of study while in the U.S. Monday's announcement comes as more colleges release their plans for the fall.On Monday, July 6, 2020, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that International Students in the United States whose schools have ruled for online-only classes in the Fall 2020 semester must leave the United States, or may face immigration consequences.
This is counterproductive for the following reasons:
- International students contribute ~$41 billion dollars to the US economy every year
- US universities and research programs depend on revenue from international students to survive
- US universities may be compelled to prematurely open in-person instruction and risk virus transmission
- STEM companies thrive and depend on global talent
We request that ICE rescind their decision to force international students back to their home countries in the midst of a pandemic.
petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/allow-f-1-students-stay-us-through-fall-semester-if-instruction...
petitions.whitehouse.gov
On Monday, July 6, 2020, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that International Students in the United States whose schools have ruled for online-only classes in the Fall 2020 semes...