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Instead, he was forced to stay out of the country for almost four years. His absence created emotional and financial burdens for his entire family and \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/how-immigration-policy-forced-a-california-family-apart-and-disrupted-their-education/659357\" data-reader-unique-id=\"7\">derailed some of his children’s college plans\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His return, full of joy and tears, lifts a heavy burden on his children and allows them to continue their academic journeys toward college degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/-NKn8WmgGfo\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Finally, our struggle of almost four years has come to an end,” said his wife, Armanda Ruiz, in Spanish. “I have the moral support and the economic support I didn’t have, and my daughter who left college can continue her studies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bus carrying Ruiz Arévalos home pulled up in a grocery store parking lot in the small Central Valley city of Los Banos on a cold Friday evening. Waiting anxiously were his wife and their four children, bearing red, white and blue balloons and a handmade sign with the words, “Bienvenido a casa José” and “1,366” — the number of days Ruiz Arévalos was gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he got off the bus, his four children rushed forward to hug him, holding on as long as they could.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once I saw him on the bus, I was like, ‘Wow, this is real,’” said Elena Gutiérrez Ramírez, 22. “Everything I hoped that would happen, it happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944386\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Ruiz1.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11944386\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Ruiz1-800x453.jpg\" alt=\"A man hugs two girls who are holding balloons near a bus with two other people watching and holding a sign.\" width=\"800\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Ruiz1-800x453.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Ruiz1-1020x578.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Ruiz1-160x91.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Ruiz1.jpg 1461w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">José Luis Ruiz Arévalos hugs his kids after arriving in Los Banos. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Armanda Ruiz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Erin Quinn, senior staff attorney, Immigrant Legal Resource Center\"]'This really shows the harsh realities for families that are separated and the real tangible impact it has, from education to moving forward with life to economic stability.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruiz Arévalos missed four of the children’s graduations while he was gone. The youngest, Priscila Ruiz Ramírez, 13, graduated from elementary school. Nathan Gutiérrez Ramírez, 20, and Ignacio Gutiérrez Ramírez, 19, graduated from high school. Elena graduated from community college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Priscila, now in seventh grade, heard he was coming back, the first thing she said was, “Papi, I want you to come to my graduation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruiz Arévalos met his wife when her three oldest children were 8, 6 and 5 years old, and he has helped raise them ever since. They later had another daughter together, Priscila.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruiz, who is a U.S. citizen, applied for a green card for her husband. Ruiz Arévalos had been living in the U.S. as an undocumented immigrant since he was 17. He went to Mexico in May 2019 for the last step in his application, an interview at the U.S. Consulate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before he left, he had already cleared one hurdle. People who crossed the border without papers and then lived here for more than a year can’t get a green card easily, even if they are married to a U.S. citizen. They can be banned from the country for 10 years unless they can get a waiver by proving that being forced to stay outside the U.S. would cause “extreme hardship” for a U.S. citizen spouse or parent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services approved the waiver for Ruiz Arévalos. He and his wife had argued that it would be an extreme hardship for her to care alone for their four children, especially Priscila, who was born prematurely, has developmental delays and requires continuous medical care, including speech, occupational and physical therapy. In addition, Nathan suffered from severe depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But before Ruiz Arévalos’ appointment at the consulate, the Trump administration had changed the rules for something called the “public charge” policy. Under the Trump administration, consulate officers had begun asking whether an applicant’s family members, including U.S. citizens, had ever used public benefits, including food stamps and Medicaid. While Ruiz Arévalos had never used benefits, his youngest daughter, Priscila, has received Supplemental Security Income — provided to lower-income disabled people — since she was born. All the children have used food stamps and Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before President Donald Trump changed the “public charge” policy, benefits used by U.S. citizen children wouldn’t have counted against Ruiz Arévalos, and having a fiscal sponsor — a friend who agreed to support him if needed — would have been enough proof he wouldn’t become a burden on the government. But under the new policy, the consulate officers told Ruiz Arévalos he was ineligible for a green card because he was likely to become a “public charge,” dependent on the government. They said he would need another sponsor, preferably a relative, but instead of waiting for him to turn in the new paperwork, they canceled his application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between Oct. 1, 2018, and Sept. 30, 2019, \u003ca href=\"https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-statistics/annual-reports/report-of-the-visa-office-2019.html\">consulate officials refused almost 21,000 people\u003c/a> applying for immigrant visas based on the revised public charge policy. Under the prior policy, only about 3,000 people a year had been denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/cspq1/3/\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March 2021, under President Joe Biden, the State Department restored the public charge policy in place before 2018: Non-cash benefits like Medicaid and food stamps cannot be counted against a green card applicant, nor can any benefits used by children or other relatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that summer Ruiz Arévalos applied again. The process, which used to take a few months, now takes more than a year, due to backlogs that were aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Armanda Ruiz appealed to as many elected officials as she could, including meeting with Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s staff in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November 2022, Ruiz Arévalos finally received another waiver and then an appointment at the U.S. Consulate for a second green card interview in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he entered the U.S. Consulate in Ciudad Juárez for his second green card interview, Ruiz Arévalos wasn’t sure what to expect.[aside postID=\"forum_2010101892520,news_11942414,news_11937017\" label=\"Related Posts\"]“I was scared they would come up with something I wasn’t expecting again, and it would be delayed again,” Ruiz Arévalos said in Spanish. “My wife told me, ‘It’s set.’ But I told her, no, not until I’m at the border will I be able to say it’s over. I don’t know what’s going to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When his passport arrived in the mail a few weeks later, he stared in shock. There, pasted into the passport was the proof that he had permanent residency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first thing he did was go buy a bus ticket to Los Banos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His return brings relief especially to Elena, who dropped out of college after freshman year so she could work to help provide for her younger siblings. She joined the Army Reserve and worked part time as a cashier and at a tomato-packing plant while continuing to take classes part time at community college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Ruiz Arévalos had been able to come back in 2019, Elena would likely have graduated from UC Merced last year. Instead, she earned an associate degree at Merced College. She’s been putting off continuing her studies at a four-year college. Now that her dad is back, she’s finally considering studying for a bachelor’s degree in communications or Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To me it’s like, now I don’t have to stress out this year and be like, OK, let’s just jump into law enforcement, let’s just jump into construction,” said Elena. “Now I can slow down, think about what I like before I jump in. Because honestly, I was panicking. But right now I’m like, OK, I can slow down and not rush myself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nathan is now finishing up an associate degree and has applied to transfer to UC Merced in the fall, to major in psychology or sociology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t really have a specific goal with that in mind, but I do want to help other people,” Nathan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944385\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/f0ac3949-f89c-4018-afbc-cc22b7dc0c86-1024x768-1.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11944385\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/f0ac3949-f89c-4018-afbc-cc22b7dc0c86-1024x768-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a black t-shirt and sun glasses has his arm around a younger man wearing an orange t-shirt who is holding a cooking tool over a grill outside.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/f0ac3949-f89c-4018-afbc-cc22b7dc0c86-1024x768-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/f0ac3949-f89c-4018-afbc-cc22b7dc0c86-1024x768-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/f0ac3949-f89c-4018-afbc-cc22b7dc0c86-1024x768-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/f0ac3949-f89c-4018-afbc-cc22b7dc0c86-1024x768-1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ignacio Gutiérrez Ramírez grills with his dad, José Ruiz Arévalos. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Armanda Ruiz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ignacio was a top student in high school, courted by Harvard and Yale. But he chose to stay close to home and attend UC Merced, in part because Ruiz Arévalos was gone. He won multiple scholarships, including from the California Latino Legislative Caucus Foundation. He’s planning on majoring in psychology as well and hopes to become a therapist for teenagers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says what got them through this separation was staying united and pushing forward together despite the difficulties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just goes to show how persistence is kind of key for these kinds of things,” said Ignacio. “You always just got to keep striving for it, even if you fail. And that goes for a lot of things, even maybe persisting and going after changing immigration laws to improve others’ conditions. Because it’s not just us that’s going through this, it’s a lot of other people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erin Quinn, senior staff attorney at the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, a nonprofit based in San Francisco, said Ruiz Arévalos’ case highlights the impact of Trump’s changes to public charge policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This really shows the harsh realities for families that are separated and the real tangible impact it has, from education to moving forward with life to economic stability,” said Quinn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quinn said most immigrant families are not aware that the Biden administration rolled back the Trump administration’s changes to the public charge rule. In fact, one poll showed that only a quarter of immigrant families were aware, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’ve really seen is a long-term impact from the rhetoric and negative policies under the Trump administration,” Quinn said. “Combating the chilling effect that it has had on our communities here will take decades.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said many undocumented immigrants are now less comfortable leaving the United States to finalize their permanent residency applications, because they are uncertain what the outcome will be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, families are less willing to apply for services that their U.S. citizen children are eligible for, such as subsidized housing, food stamps and health insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On his first morning back, Ruiz Arévalos woke up in the family trailer in Los Banos for the first time in years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt like I had never left, like it had all been a nightmare,” said Ruiz Arévalos. “It wasn’t a problem to be in Mexico. The problem was I wasn’t with my family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During that first weekend back, they drove to visit a cousin in San José, Oscar Rodríguez, who submitted paperwork for Ruiz Arévalos’ immigration case, agreeing to be his fiscal sponsor. Ruiz Arévalos’ aunt made pozole to celebrate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944384\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/0eaf396a-bef6-43ce-a874-c2451e3e4efb-1024x768-1.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11944384\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/0eaf396a-bef6-43ce-a874-c2451e3e4efb-1024x768-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A man stands with three girls near a grill in a backyard.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/0eaf396a-bef6-43ce-a874-c2451e3e4efb-1024x768-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/0eaf396a-bef6-43ce-a874-c2451e3e4efb-1024x768-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/0eaf396a-bef6-43ce-a874-c2451e3e4efb-1024x768-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/0eaf396a-bef6-43ce-a874-c2451e3e4efb-1024x768-1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nathan, Priscila and Elena with their dad, José Luis Ruiz Arévalos. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Armanda Ruiz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re really happy he’s back,” said Rodríguez. “Knowing him, a responsible parent and hard worker who takes care of his children and his wife, I thought he wouldn’t have problems. But unfortunately he did. It felt like an injustice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruiz Arévalos is slowly getting back into the family routine. On his first morning back, he got up and made pancakes. He’s been spending time with his kids — putting together puzzles, taking a CPR class with Nathan, helping Elena remove extensions from her hair. Weekday mornings, he walks Priscila out to wait for her school bus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s these little things that Ruiz Arévalos missed most — the day-to-day of parenting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You get up and you see they’ve grown a little bit, or they did something new, or they learned something new,” he said. “They’re just little details, but they stay with you as a father.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he was in Mexico, Ruiz Arévalos said he felt he had “clipped his children’s wings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He can’t ever get those four years back, but now, he hopes to finally watch his children fly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Jennifer Molina produced the video in this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story originally appeared in EdSource.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A father separated from his family by a Trump administration immigration policy was finally able to return to the US last month, after almost four years.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1679681137,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":true,"iframeSrcs":["https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/cspq1/3/"],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":51,"wordCount":2198},"headData":{"title":"Family Reunited After Four Years Separated by Trump-Era Immigration Policy | KQED","description":"A father separated from his family by a Trump administration immigration policy was finally able to return to the US last month, after almost four years.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"source":"The California Report Magazine","sourceUrl":"https://edsource.org/","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/eec456a3-290a-43f2-ba7f-afcd0134b496/audio.mp3","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/author/zstavely\">Zaidee Stavely\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/\">EdSource\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11944375/family-reunited-after-four-years-separated-by-trump-era-immigration-policy","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When José Luis Ruiz Arévalos left the U.S. in May 2019, he thought he would be gone six days. Instead, he was forced to stay out of the country for almost four years. His absence created emotional and financial burdens for his entire family and \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/how-immigration-policy-forced-a-california-family-apart-and-disrupted-their-education/659357\" data-reader-unique-id=\"7\">derailed some of his children’s college plans\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His return, full of joy and tears, lifts a heavy burden on his children and allows them to continue their academic journeys toward college degrees.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/-NKn8WmgGfo'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/-NKn8WmgGfo'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“Finally, our struggle of almost four years has come to an end,” said his wife, Armanda Ruiz, in Spanish. “I have the moral support and the economic support I didn’t have, and my daughter who left college can continue her studies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bus carrying Ruiz Arévalos home pulled up in a grocery store parking lot in the small Central Valley city of Los Banos on a cold Friday evening. Waiting anxiously were his wife and their four children, bearing red, white and blue balloons and a handmade sign with the words, “Bienvenido a casa José” and “1,366” — the number of days Ruiz Arévalos was gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he got off the bus, his four children rushed forward to hug him, holding on as long as they could.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once I saw him on the bus, I was like, ‘Wow, this is real,’” said Elena Gutiérrez Ramírez, 22. “Everything I hoped that would happen, it happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944386\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Ruiz1.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11944386\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Ruiz1-800x453.jpg\" alt=\"A man hugs two girls who are holding balloons near a bus with two other people watching and holding a sign.\" width=\"800\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Ruiz1-800x453.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Ruiz1-1020x578.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Ruiz1-160x91.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Ruiz1.jpg 1461w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">José Luis Ruiz Arévalos hugs his kids after arriving in Los Banos. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Armanda Ruiz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'This really shows the harsh realities for families that are separated and the real tangible impact it has, from education to moving forward with life to economic stability.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Erin Quinn, senior staff attorney, Immigrant Legal Resource Center","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruiz Arévalos missed four of the children’s graduations while he was gone. The youngest, Priscila Ruiz Ramírez, 13, graduated from elementary school. Nathan Gutiérrez Ramírez, 20, and Ignacio Gutiérrez Ramírez, 19, graduated from high school. Elena graduated from community college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Priscila, now in seventh grade, heard he was coming back, the first thing she said was, “Papi, I want you to come to my graduation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruiz Arévalos met his wife when her three oldest children were 8, 6 and 5 years old, and he has helped raise them ever since. They later had another daughter together, Priscila.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruiz, who is a U.S. citizen, applied for a green card for her husband. Ruiz Arévalos had been living in the U.S. as an undocumented immigrant since he was 17. He went to Mexico in May 2019 for the last step in his application, an interview at the U.S. Consulate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before he left, he had already cleared one hurdle. People who crossed the border without papers and then lived here for more than a year can’t get a green card easily, even if they are married to a U.S. citizen. They can be banned from the country for 10 years unless they can get a waiver by proving that being forced to stay outside the U.S. would cause “extreme hardship” for a U.S. citizen spouse or parent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services approved the waiver for Ruiz Arévalos. He and his wife had argued that it would be an extreme hardship for her to care alone for their four children, especially Priscila, who was born prematurely, has developmental delays and requires continuous medical care, including speech, occupational and physical therapy. In addition, Nathan suffered from severe depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But before Ruiz Arévalos’ appointment at the consulate, the Trump administration had changed the rules for something called the “public charge” policy. Under the Trump administration, consulate officers had begun asking whether an applicant’s family members, including U.S. citizens, had ever used public benefits, including food stamps and Medicaid. While Ruiz Arévalos had never used benefits, his youngest daughter, Priscila, has received Supplemental Security Income — provided to lower-income disabled people — since she was born. All the children have used food stamps and Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before President Donald Trump changed the “public charge” policy, benefits used by U.S. citizen children wouldn’t have counted against Ruiz Arévalos, and having a fiscal sponsor — a friend who agreed to support him if needed — would have been enough proof he wouldn’t become a burden on the government. But under the new policy, the consulate officers told Ruiz Arévalos he was ineligible for a green card because he was likely to become a “public charge,” dependent on the government. They said he would need another sponsor, preferably a relative, but instead of waiting for him to turn in the new paperwork, they canceled his application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between Oct. 1, 2018, and Sept. 30, 2019, \u003ca href=\"https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-statistics/annual-reports/report-of-the-visa-office-2019.html\">consulate officials refused almost 21,000 people\u003c/a> applying for immigrant visas based on the revised public charge policy. Under the prior policy, only about 3,000 people a year had been denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/cspq1/3/\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March 2021, under President Joe Biden, the State Department restored the public charge policy in place before 2018: Non-cash benefits like Medicaid and food stamps cannot be counted against a green card applicant, nor can any benefits used by children or other relatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that summer Ruiz Arévalos applied again. The process, which used to take a few months, now takes more than a year, due to backlogs that were aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Armanda Ruiz appealed to as many elected officials as she could, including meeting with Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s staff in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November 2022, Ruiz Arévalos finally received another waiver and then an appointment at the U.S. Consulate for a second green card interview in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he entered the U.S. Consulate in Ciudad Juárez for his second green card interview, Ruiz Arévalos wasn’t sure what to expect.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"forum_2010101892520,news_11942414,news_11937017","label":"Related Posts "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I was scared they would come up with something I wasn’t expecting again, and it would be delayed again,” Ruiz Arévalos said in Spanish. “My wife told me, ‘It’s set.’ But I told her, no, not until I’m at the border will I be able to say it’s over. I don’t know what’s going to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When his passport arrived in the mail a few weeks later, he stared in shock. There, pasted into the passport was the proof that he had permanent residency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first thing he did was go buy a bus ticket to Los Banos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His return brings relief especially to Elena, who dropped out of college after freshman year so she could work to help provide for her younger siblings. She joined the Army Reserve and worked part time as a cashier and at a tomato-packing plant while continuing to take classes part time at community college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Ruiz Arévalos had been able to come back in 2019, Elena would likely have graduated from UC Merced last year. Instead, she earned an associate degree at Merced College. She’s been putting off continuing her studies at a four-year college. Now that her dad is back, she’s finally considering studying for a bachelor’s degree in communications or Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To me it’s like, now I don’t have to stress out this year and be like, OK, let’s just jump into law enforcement, let’s just jump into construction,” said Elena. “Now I can slow down, think about what I like before I jump in. Because honestly, I was panicking. But right now I’m like, OK, I can slow down and not rush myself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nathan is now finishing up an associate degree and has applied to transfer to UC Merced in the fall, to major in psychology or sociology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t really have a specific goal with that in mind, but I do want to help other people,” Nathan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944385\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/f0ac3949-f89c-4018-afbc-cc22b7dc0c86-1024x768-1.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11944385\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/f0ac3949-f89c-4018-afbc-cc22b7dc0c86-1024x768-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a black t-shirt and sun glasses has his arm around a younger man wearing an orange t-shirt who is holding a cooking tool over a grill outside.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/f0ac3949-f89c-4018-afbc-cc22b7dc0c86-1024x768-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/f0ac3949-f89c-4018-afbc-cc22b7dc0c86-1024x768-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/f0ac3949-f89c-4018-afbc-cc22b7dc0c86-1024x768-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/f0ac3949-f89c-4018-afbc-cc22b7dc0c86-1024x768-1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ignacio Gutiérrez Ramírez grills with his dad, José Ruiz Arévalos. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Armanda Ruiz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ignacio was a top student in high school, courted by Harvard and Yale. But he chose to stay close to home and attend UC Merced, in part because Ruiz Arévalos was gone. He won multiple scholarships, including from the California Latino Legislative Caucus Foundation. He’s planning on majoring in psychology as well and hopes to become a therapist for teenagers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says what got them through this separation was staying united and pushing forward together despite the difficulties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just goes to show how persistence is kind of key for these kinds of things,” said Ignacio. “You always just got to keep striving for it, even if you fail. And that goes for a lot of things, even maybe persisting and going after changing immigration laws to improve others’ conditions. Because it’s not just us that’s going through this, it’s a lot of other people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erin Quinn, senior staff attorney at the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, a nonprofit based in San Francisco, said Ruiz Arévalos’ case highlights the impact of Trump’s changes to public charge policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This really shows the harsh realities for families that are separated and the real tangible impact it has, from education to moving forward with life to economic stability,” said Quinn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quinn said most immigrant families are not aware that the Biden administration rolled back the Trump administration’s changes to the public charge rule. In fact, one poll showed that only a quarter of immigrant families were aware, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’ve really seen is a long-term impact from the rhetoric and negative policies under the Trump administration,” Quinn said. “Combating the chilling effect that it has had on our communities here will take decades.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said many undocumented immigrants are now less comfortable leaving the United States to finalize their permanent residency applications, because they are uncertain what the outcome will be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, families are less willing to apply for services that their U.S. citizen children are eligible for, such as subsidized housing, food stamps and health insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On his first morning back, Ruiz Arévalos woke up in the family trailer in Los Banos for the first time in years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt like I had never left, like it had all been a nightmare,” said Ruiz Arévalos. “It wasn’t a problem to be in Mexico. The problem was I wasn’t with my family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During that first weekend back, they drove to visit a cousin in San José, Oscar Rodríguez, who submitted paperwork for Ruiz Arévalos’ immigration case, agreeing to be his fiscal sponsor. Ruiz Arévalos’ aunt made pozole to celebrate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944384\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/0eaf396a-bef6-43ce-a874-c2451e3e4efb-1024x768-1.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11944384\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/0eaf396a-bef6-43ce-a874-c2451e3e4efb-1024x768-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A man stands with three girls near a grill in a backyard.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/0eaf396a-bef6-43ce-a874-c2451e3e4efb-1024x768-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/0eaf396a-bef6-43ce-a874-c2451e3e4efb-1024x768-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/0eaf396a-bef6-43ce-a874-c2451e3e4efb-1024x768-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/0eaf396a-bef6-43ce-a874-c2451e3e4efb-1024x768-1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nathan, Priscila and Elena with their dad, José Luis Ruiz Arévalos. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Armanda Ruiz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re really happy he’s back,” said Rodríguez. “Knowing him, a responsible parent and hard worker who takes care of his children and his wife, I thought he wouldn’t have problems. But unfortunately he did. It felt like an injustice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruiz Arévalos is slowly getting back into the family routine. On his first morning back, he got up and made pancakes. He’s been spending time with his kids — putting together puzzles, taking a CPR class with Nathan, helping Elena remove extensions from her hair. Weekday mornings, he walks Priscila out to wait for her school bus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s these little things that Ruiz Arévalos missed most — the day-to-day of parenting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You get up and you see they’ve grown a little bit, or they did something new, or they learned something new,” he said. “They’re just little details, but they stay with you as a father.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he was in Mexico, Ruiz Arévalos said he felt he had “clipped his children’s wings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He can’t ever get those four years back, but now, he hopes to finally watch his children fly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Jennifer Molina produced the video in this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story originally appeared in EdSource.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11944375/family-reunited-after-four-years-separated-by-trump-era-immigration-policy","authors":["byline_news_11944375"],"programs":["news_72","news_26731"],"categories":["news_1169","news_8"],"tags":["news_27626","news_20829","news_32568","news_24303","news_29913","news_32567","news_20452","news_22530"],"featImg":"news_11944412","label":"source_news_11944375"},"news_11913665":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11913665","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11913665","score":null,"sort":[1652450447000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"200000-documented-dreamers-are-literally-waiting-a-lifetime-for-a-green-card","title":"200,000 'Documented Dreamers' Are Literally Waiting a Lifetime for a Green Card","publishDate":1652450447,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report Magazine | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Here in the U.S., turning 21 is usually a reason to celebrate. But for 200,000 young people, adulthood catapults them into a bizarre legal limbo thanks to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/101st-congress/senate-bill/358\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Immigration Act of 1990\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what happened to Eti Sinha and her twin sister, Eva. When they turned 21, they “aged out” of their parents’ family green card application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's just the system that's just so messed up,\" said Eva.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's extremely difficult to process that, and keep having more and more obstacles in your way just to continue a life — in the only place I call home.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A family makes a bid for the American dream\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Sinha sisters were 7 years old when they moved with their mom from New Delhi, India, to San Francisco. They joined their dad, who was studying to transition out of his first career in the oil industry. Now he runs his own Silicon Valley consulting firm, and their mom is the director of admissions at a local university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We kind of had a pretty typical American upbringing. We learned how to ride our bikes in Golden Gate Park. We loved eating all the Asian food in San Francisco and [the] Bay Area,\" recalled Eva.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In time for middle school, the family moved to the suburbs: Fremont, in the East Bay, where they did all the things you do growing up in Fremont.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We went to Centerville Middle School and Irvington High School,\" said Eti. \"We hiked Mission Peak. During lunch breaks, because it was an open campus, we would rush over to 7-Eleven, grab some taquitos and rush back to campus before class started. Eva was president of the French club. I was secretary of the French club.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912028\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 676px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11912028\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/EtiEva_InSF_2010.jpeg\" alt=\"Two girls pose in front of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco\" width=\"676\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/EtiEva_InSF_2010.jpeg 676w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/EtiEva_InSF_2010-160x116.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eti and Eva Sinha pose in front of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco in 2010. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Monica Sinha)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We never really felt out of place,\" said Eva. \"We had a lot of other friends who were immigrants, you know? Second- and third-generation immigrants — and I've had quite a few friends who were immigrants themselves, who came [to the U.S.] in elementary school along with their parents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there was a critical difference between them and most of their friends, a gulf that widened as they grew older: Eva and Eti’s presence in this country was conditional, set to expire when they turned 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As children, they had been dependents, riding on their father’s temporary visa status and, later, his family application for a green card, for the right to live and work in the U.S. more or less indefinitely. When they became adults, the federal government considered Eva and Eti foreign nationals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Eva Sinha, 'Documented Dreamer']'It's just the system that's just so messed up. It's extremely difficult to process that, and keep having more and more obstacles in your way just to continue a life — in the only place I call home.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The green card backlog\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Just after the family arrived in the U.S., a backlog started to develop in Washington, D.C., because of a bizarre quota system set in place back in 1991.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green card applicants from every country get roughly the same percentage of green cards given out in any one year, whether they're from Albania or Zimbabwe, India or China. There are far more people from India and China applying, however. These two countries in particular have huge populations, and many highly educated individuals are attracted to the job market in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting in the early 2000s, year after year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/immigration-wait-times-quotas-have-doubled-green-card-backlogs-are-long#current-wait-times-by-category\">their wait for green cards got longer and longer\u003c/a>, stretching for decades for some applicants. It only dawned on the Sinha sisters in high school that their green cards might not arrive in time for college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most of my friends had gotten their green card by the time they were in high school,\" said Eva.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what their parents presumed would happen for them. That was a big part of the reason why their family moved here from New Delhi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our parents applied in 2011, when we were in middle school,\" said Eva. \"You know, they still don't have their green card today. So in high school, we realized, OK, as much as our experiences are similar to our peers, we don’t actually have the same amount of opportunity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's because the lack of a green card meant that when they turned 21 while in college, during their senior year, they would suddenly switch from dependent to adult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913668\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1784px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913668\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/EvaEti_IrvingtonGrad_2014-2.jpg\" alt=\"Two teenage girls dressed in graduation gowns and holding flowers smile at the camera.\" width=\"1784\" height=\"1078\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/EvaEti_IrvingtonGrad_2014-2.jpg 1784w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/EvaEti_IrvingtonGrad_2014-2-800x483.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/EvaEti_IrvingtonGrad_2014-2-1020x616.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/EvaEti_IrvingtonGrad_2014-2-160x97.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/EvaEti_IrvingtonGrad_2014-2-1536x928.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1784px) 100vw, 1784px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eti and Eva Sinha graduated from Irvington High School in Fremont in 2014. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Monica Sinha)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Suddenly, they would become ineligible for everything from in-state tuition at a public school, to all kinds of grants and loans. Some people suggested Eva and Eti apply as undocumented, to take advantage of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, programs. But they\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> didn’t want to risk getting cut off from any pathway to citizenship.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if the Sinha sisters blame their parents, Eva said no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They paid all their taxes,\" she said. \"They've maintained their [legal visa] statuses, made sure that, you know, that they're following all the rules. And, you know, once their turn in line comes up, they would get their green card. It’s just, there's a backlog.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sinha sisters found a way forward. They both convinced their respective financial aid departments — at UC Santa Barbara and UC San Diego — to let them pay the lower, in-state tuition all the way through, even though they were both going to become “international” students in a few years. They got no financial aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11912027,news_11885260,news_11707255\" label=\"Related Coverage\"]After they graduated — cum laude, both of them — Eti and Eva became experts in the U.S. visa system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eva currently works as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/evasinha/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">financial analyst\u003c/a> in San Francisco, and her employer sponsored her for an H-1B, the most common visa in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That H-1B is temporary, of course. It expires in 2026, unless her employer applies for a renewal, or a green card, or she returns to her “home country,” a country she’s visited but doesn’t consider home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are, like, as American as people who are American citizens,\" said Eva. \"We grew up here. We want to continue our lives here. We want to contribute to the American economy here. Everybody else perceives us as American as well, from our peers to my, like, managers, etcetera. I think we're American in every way but on paper.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913669\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 749px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913669\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/EvaEti_MissionPeak_2014-2.jpg\" alt=\"Two teenage girls stand at the top of a mountain as the sun sets behind them.\" width=\"749\" height=\"677\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/EvaEti_MissionPeak_2014-2.jpg 749w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/EvaEti_MissionPeak_2014-2-160x145.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 749px) 100vw, 749px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eti and Eva Sinha strike a pose at the summit of Mission Peak in Fremont. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Monica Sinha)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"It's so obvious to everyone but, for some reason, not the U.S. government,\" Eti added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eti searched for full-time work after college, but couldn't find a company willing to sponsor her. So she's now on an F-1, an academic visa. \"I am a Ph.D. student at Cornell University in New York, studying biomedical engineering,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Eti graduates, she’ll have to do the same thing as Eva: find an employer to sponsor her for an H-1B and then, hopefully, a green card. Essentially, they’re both hopscotching from one temporary visa to another, to stay in this country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a name for this dilemma, for what Eti and Eva became: “Documented Dreamers.” Most of them are Asian, with roughly 70% being Indian, according to the advocacy group \u003ca href=\"https://www.improvethedream.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Improve the Dream\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent committee hearing in Sacramento, \u003ca href=\"https://www.senate.ca.gov/media/senate-education-committee-20220427/video\">Eva testified\u003c/a> on behalf of a bill put forward by State Sen. Maria Elena Durazo of Los Angeles. \"\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1160\">Senate Bill 1160\u003c/a> will allow dependent visa students that meet existing eligibility requirements to pay in-state tuition at California’s public colleges and universities,\" even after they turn 21, Durazo said at the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This bill isn’t for the Sinha sisters. It’s for the students, the \"Documented Dreamers\" coming after them. Even though SB 1160 can’t address federal immigration law, it can make the cost of a college education in California a little more feasible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s good enough for Eva, today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Doing it piece by piece, at least we can get some movement going. Having one big legislation, which will definitely solve everything? In the way that our government is designed? It’s just going to take forever,\" Eva said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are bills moving at the federal level that could help the more than 200,000 \"Documented Dreamers\" in the U.S. ahead of more comprehensive reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla co-sponsored the \u003ca href=\"https://www.padilla.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/padilla-paul-introduce-bipartisan-bill-to-protect-thousands-of-documented-dreamers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">America's Children Act\u003c/a>. Backed by Improve the Dream, this legislation would allow dependent visa holders to maintain their status, even after they turn 21: no more fear of a wait time for a green card that lasts for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent hearing of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/removing-barriers-to-legal-migration-to-strengthen-our-communities-and-economy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship and Border Safety\u003c/a>, Padilla said, \"The term 'wait time,' for many, is actually a cruel misnomer. For applicants from some countries, the wait time is literally longer than any human's life expectancy. These aren’t wait times. These are de facto bans.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even though the America's Children Act is targeted to help a small group of people, and enjoys bipartisan support, the bill’s future is murky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These are people who grew up feeling like Americans, and they’re in the same position their parents are in, trying to go through a lottery to win an H-1B visa, to be able to get in a backlog for a green card that has no end,\" said David Bier, a research fellow with the Cato Institute who specializes in federal immigration policy. \"It’s not a good immigration system for anyone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bier says lawmakers on the right and the left have doubts about signing off on even the most agreed-upon, partial solution. It’s just too iffy in an election year. Even the Biden administration is curiously silent about \"Documented Dreamers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It just seems like they’re afraid of even bringing up the word 'immigration,' \" Bier said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so the Sinha sisters keep advocating for legal change, mentoring young people in the same situation, and trying to move forward with their lives, while holding on to their dream of a future here, in the only place they call home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"U.S. immigration law that went into effect in 1991 didn't anticipate a scenario where 200,000 children might 'age out' of their families' green card applications.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1652469824,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":45,"wordCount":1799},"headData":{"title":"200,000 'Documented Dreamers' Are Literally Waiting a Lifetime for a Green Card | KQED","description":"U.S. immigration law that went into effect in 1991 didn't anticipate a scenario where 200,000 children might 'age out' of their families' green card applications.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11913665 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11913665","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/05/13/200000-documented-dreamers-are-literally-waiting-a-lifetime-for-a-green-card/","disqusTitle":"200,000 'Documented Dreamers' Are Literally Waiting a Lifetime for a Green Card","source":"The California Report Magazine","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/californiareportmagazine","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-4[…]f-aaef00f5a073/be2d280a-fe8b-4d3d-9281-ae930182cf93/audio.mp3","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11913665/200000-documented-dreamers-are-literally-waiting-a-lifetime-for-a-green-card","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Here in the U.S., turning 21 is usually a reason to celebrate. But for 200,000 young people, adulthood catapults them into a bizarre legal limbo thanks to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/101st-congress/senate-bill/358\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Immigration Act of 1990\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what happened to Eti Sinha and her twin sister, Eva. When they turned 21, they “aged out” of their parents’ family green card application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's just the system that's just so messed up,\" said Eva.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's extremely difficult to process that, and keep having more and more obstacles in your way just to continue a life — in the only place I call home.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A family makes a bid for the American dream\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Sinha sisters were 7 years old when they moved with their mom from New Delhi, India, to San Francisco. They joined their dad, who was studying to transition out of his first career in the oil industry. Now he runs his own Silicon Valley consulting firm, and their mom is the director of admissions at a local university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We kind of had a pretty typical American upbringing. We learned how to ride our bikes in Golden Gate Park. We loved eating all the Asian food in San Francisco and [the] Bay Area,\" recalled Eva.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In time for middle school, the family moved to the suburbs: Fremont, in the East Bay, where they did all the things you do growing up in Fremont.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We went to Centerville Middle School and Irvington High School,\" said Eti. \"We hiked Mission Peak. During lunch breaks, because it was an open campus, we would rush over to 7-Eleven, grab some taquitos and rush back to campus before class started. Eva was president of the French club. I was secretary of the French club.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11912028\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 676px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11912028\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/EtiEva_InSF_2010.jpeg\" alt=\"Two girls pose in front of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco\" width=\"676\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/EtiEva_InSF_2010.jpeg 676w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/EtiEva_InSF_2010-160x116.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eti and Eva Sinha pose in front of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco in 2010. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Monica Sinha)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We never really felt out of place,\" said Eva. \"We had a lot of other friends who were immigrants, you know? Second- and third-generation immigrants — and I've had quite a few friends who were immigrants themselves, who came [to the U.S.] in elementary school along with their parents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there was a critical difference between them and most of their friends, a gulf that widened as they grew older: Eva and Eti’s presence in this country was conditional, set to expire when they turned 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As children, they had been dependents, riding on their father’s temporary visa status and, later, his family application for a green card, for the right to live and work in the U.S. more or less indefinitely. When they became adults, the federal government considered Eva and Eti foreign nationals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'It's just the system that's just so messed up. It's extremely difficult to process that, and keep having more and more obstacles in your way just to continue a life — in the only place I call home.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","label":"citation=\"Eva Sinha, 'Documented Dreamer'"},"numeric":["citation=\"Eva","Sinha,","'Documented","Dreamer'"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The green card backlog\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Just after the family arrived in the U.S., a backlog started to develop in Washington, D.C., because of a bizarre quota system set in place back in 1991.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green card applicants from every country get roughly the same percentage of green cards given out in any one year, whether they're from Albania or Zimbabwe, India or China. There are far more people from India and China applying, however. These two countries in particular have huge populations, and many highly educated individuals are attracted to the job market in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting in the early 2000s, year after year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/immigration-wait-times-quotas-have-doubled-green-card-backlogs-are-long#current-wait-times-by-category\">their wait for green cards got longer and longer\u003c/a>, stretching for decades for some applicants. It only dawned on the Sinha sisters in high school that their green cards might not arrive in time for college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most of my friends had gotten their green card by the time they were in high school,\" said Eva.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what their parents presumed would happen for them. That was a big part of the reason why their family moved here from New Delhi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our parents applied in 2011, when we were in middle school,\" said Eva. \"You know, they still don't have their green card today. So in high school, we realized, OK, as much as our experiences are similar to our peers, we don’t actually have the same amount of opportunity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's because the lack of a green card meant that when they turned 21 while in college, during their senior year, they would suddenly switch from dependent to adult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913668\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1784px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913668\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/EvaEti_IrvingtonGrad_2014-2.jpg\" alt=\"Two teenage girls dressed in graduation gowns and holding flowers smile at the camera.\" width=\"1784\" height=\"1078\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/EvaEti_IrvingtonGrad_2014-2.jpg 1784w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/EvaEti_IrvingtonGrad_2014-2-800x483.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/EvaEti_IrvingtonGrad_2014-2-1020x616.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/EvaEti_IrvingtonGrad_2014-2-160x97.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/EvaEti_IrvingtonGrad_2014-2-1536x928.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1784px) 100vw, 1784px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eti and Eva Sinha graduated from Irvington High School in Fremont in 2014. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Monica Sinha)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Suddenly, they would become ineligible for everything from in-state tuition at a public school, to all kinds of grants and loans. Some people suggested Eva and Eti apply as undocumented, to take advantage of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, programs. But they\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> didn’t want to risk getting cut off from any pathway to citizenship.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if the Sinha sisters blame their parents, Eva said no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They paid all their taxes,\" she said. \"They've maintained their [legal visa] statuses, made sure that, you know, that they're following all the rules. And, you know, once their turn in line comes up, they would get their green card. It’s just, there's a backlog.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sinha sisters found a way forward. They both convinced their respective financial aid departments — at UC Santa Barbara and UC San Diego — to let them pay the lower, in-state tuition all the way through, even though they were both going to become “international” students in a few years. They got no financial aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11912027,news_11885260,news_11707255","label":"Related Coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>After they graduated — cum laude, both of them — Eti and Eva became experts in the U.S. visa system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eva currently works as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/evasinha/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">financial analyst\u003c/a> in San Francisco, and her employer sponsored her for an H-1B, the most common visa in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That H-1B is temporary, of course. It expires in 2026, unless her employer applies for a renewal, or a green card, or she returns to her “home country,” a country she’s visited but doesn’t consider home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are, like, as American as people who are American citizens,\" said Eva. \"We grew up here. We want to continue our lives here. We want to contribute to the American economy here. Everybody else perceives us as American as well, from our peers to my, like, managers, etcetera. I think we're American in every way but on paper.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913669\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 749px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913669\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/EvaEti_MissionPeak_2014-2.jpg\" alt=\"Two teenage girls stand at the top of a mountain as the sun sets behind them.\" width=\"749\" height=\"677\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/EvaEti_MissionPeak_2014-2.jpg 749w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/EvaEti_MissionPeak_2014-2-160x145.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 749px) 100vw, 749px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eti and Eva Sinha strike a pose at the summit of Mission Peak in Fremont. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Monica Sinha)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"It's so obvious to everyone but, for some reason, not the U.S. government,\" Eti added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eti searched for full-time work after college, but couldn't find a company willing to sponsor her. So she's now on an F-1, an academic visa. \"I am a Ph.D. student at Cornell University in New York, studying biomedical engineering,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Eti graduates, she’ll have to do the same thing as Eva: find an employer to sponsor her for an H-1B and then, hopefully, a green card. Essentially, they’re both hopscotching from one temporary visa to another, to stay in this country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a name for this dilemma, for what Eti and Eva became: “Documented Dreamers.” Most of them are Asian, with roughly 70% being Indian, according to the advocacy group \u003ca href=\"https://www.improvethedream.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Improve the Dream\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent committee hearing in Sacramento, \u003ca href=\"https://www.senate.ca.gov/media/senate-education-committee-20220427/video\">Eva testified\u003c/a> on behalf of a bill put forward by State Sen. Maria Elena Durazo of Los Angeles. \"\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1160\">Senate Bill 1160\u003c/a> will allow dependent visa students that meet existing eligibility requirements to pay in-state tuition at California’s public colleges and universities,\" even after they turn 21, Durazo said at the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This bill isn’t for the Sinha sisters. It’s for the students, the \"Documented Dreamers\" coming after them. Even though SB 1160 can’t address federal immigration law, it can make the cost of a college education in California a little more feasible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s good enough for Eva, today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Doing it piece by piece, at least we can get some movement going. Having one big legislation, which will definitely solve everything? In the way that our government is designed? It’s just going to take forever,\" Eva said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are bills moving at the federal level that could help the more than 200,000 \"Documented Dreamers\" in the U.S. ahead of more comprehensive reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla co-sponsored the \u003ca href=\"https://www.padilla.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/padilla-paul-introduce-bipartisan-bill-to-protect-thousands-of-documented-dreamers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">America's Children Act\u003c/a>. Backed by Improve the Dream, this legislation would allow dependent visa holders to maintain their status, even after they turn 21: no more fear of a wait time for a green card that lasts for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent hearing of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/removing-barriers-to-legal-migration-to-strengthen-our-communities-and-economy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship and Border Safety\u003c/a>, Padilla said, \"The term 'wait time,' for many, is actually a cruel misnomer. For applicants from some countries, the wait time is literally longer than any human's life expectancy. These aren’t wait times. These are de facto bans.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even though the America's Children Act is targeted to help a small group of people, and enjoys bipartisan support, the bill’s future is murky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These are people who grew up feeling like Americans, and they’re in the same position their parents are in, trying to go through a lottery to win an H-1B visa, to be able to get in a backlog for a green card that has no end,\" said David Bier, a research fellow with the Cato Institute who specializes in federal immigration policy. \"It’s not a good immigration system for anyone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bier says lawmakers on the right and the left have doubts about signing off on even the most agreed-upon, partial solution. It’s just too iffy in an election year. Even the Biden administration is curiously silent about \"Documented Dreamers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It just seems like they’re afraid of even bringing up the word 'immigration,' \" Bier said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so the Sinha sisters keep advocating for legal change, mentoring young people in the same situation, and trying to move forward with their lives, while holding on to their dream of a future here, in the only place they call home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11913665/200000-documented-dreamers-are-literally-waiting-a-lifetime-for-a-green-card","authors":["251"],"programs":["news_26731"],"categories":["news_1169","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_19112","news_18538","news_31085","news_20415","news_27626","news_20829","news_28145","news_20202","news_18436","news_29340","news_17968","news_2011","news_353"],"featImg":"news_11913671","label":"source_news_11913665"},"news_11885260":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11885260","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11885260","score":null,"sort":[1629314374000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"silicon-valley-lawmaker-seeks-to-shorten-path-to-citizenship-for-immigrant-tech-workers","title":"Silicon Valley Lawmaker Seeks to Shorten Path to Citizenship for Immigrant Tech Workers","publishDate":1629314374,"format":"audio","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Many skilled foreign workers — especially from India — wait years, or even decades, for a green card, which would allow them to stay and work in the United States permanently. Federal legislation\u003ca href=\"https://lofgren.house.gov/media/press-releases/lofgren-curtis-introduce-bipartisan-legislation-eliminate-arbitrary-country\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> co-sponsored\u003c/a> by Democratic Silicon Valley Rep. Zoe Lofgren would phase out some of the rules that have created that backlog. But the bill’s survival is far from certain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you spend much time in the tech world, you invariably hear about the epic queue for \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/green-card/green-card-eligibility/green-card-for-employment-based-immigrants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">employment-based green cards\u003c/a>, especially from Indian nationals. Shibin Nambiar of Fremont did when he first moved to the U.S. in 2013 on a temporary H-1B work visa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t realize it today, but down the line, when you’ll have your kid and your wife, and you’re settled and you have a house — that time you’ll realize — you just will never get your green card,\" said Nambiar, a data architect at Rubrik, a cloud data management company based in Palo Alto. \"It’s going to be a life of uncertainty forever.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nambiar applied for a green card in 2015, after he got married, had a kid and bought a house. But he faces a wait so long, he jokes he may have to wait for his 4-year-old son, born here in the U.S., to turn 21 and sponsor him for residency based on their family relationship. \"He can file for us ultimately, and that’s the way we might get a green card!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Rep. Zoe Lofgren\"]'If you were born in India, applications filed on Aug. 1, 2010, are being approved today. It doesn’t make any sense to organize it in this way.'[/pullquote]According to 2020 data from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, more than 1 million people are waiting for an employment-based green card. And more people join the queue each year. But immigration law caps the total number of new cards at just 140,000 per year, and spouses and children of green card applicants count toward the annual cap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know, the system that we have now has basically not been changed in many decades, and I think it’s operating in a way that people likely didn’t envision,\" said Lofgren, who co-sponsored the \u003ca href=\"https://lofgren.house.gov/sites/lofgren.house.gov/files/EAGLE%20Act%20Final%20Bill%20Text.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Equal Access to Green cards for Legal Employment\u003c/a>, or EAGLE, Act of 2021. She serves on the Judiciary Committee and chairs the House Immigration and Citizenship Subcommittee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bottleneck is compounded for immigrants from high-demand countries, because U.S. law stipulates that no more than 7% of green cards can go to workers from any single country in a given year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you were born in India, applications filed on Aug. 1, 2010, are being approved today, and it doesn’t make any sense to organize it in this way,\" she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of those waiting for employment-based green cards are from two countries: India and China. Albania and Zimbabwe are allocated the same number as India and China, even though Albania and Zimbabwe don't have nearly as many applicants keen to work in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s worth remembering the only people who actually benefit from this bill are people who’ve gone through all the hoops to become legal permanent residents of the United States,\" said Lofgren. \"And, in a way that’s really un-American, instead of looking at their merits, we’re looking at their place of birth.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, H.R. 3648, phases out the 7% per-country limit on employment-based immigrant visas. It would also raise the 7% per-country limit on family-sponsored immigrant visas to 15%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reducing the bottlenecks and allowing more skilled foreign workers to make a permanent home in the U.S. will benefit the broader economy, said Sean Randolph, senior director of the Bay Area Council Economic Institute, a public-private partnership of business, labor, government and higher education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you look at where a lot of the hiring is from in tech companies, the big story is India,\" Randolph said. \"There is a pretty broad consensus, on a bipartisan level, that we need to support more skilled immigration into the United States.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_10859344,news_11707255,news_11701936\" label=\"Related Coverage\"]But even though the EAGLE Act is widely supported by business interests, its future is not assured. A similar bill failed to make it to President Trump’s desk in 2019. And due to the way partisanship has frozen Washington, D.C., it’s become difficult for Republican lawmakers to publicly support a hot-button issue like immigration reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the EAGLE Act may not move forward as a stand-alone bill, according to a Democratic staffer who asked not to be identified, there's a plan to fold in elements of the bill when the Senate sends its budget to the House for reconciliation, sometime in September. Lofgren was one of roughly a dozen lawmakers lobbying President Biden over the summer for various immigration reforms. It's too soon to say which parts of the bill might survive these negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EAGLE Act also includes reforms to the contentious H-1B visa program, which allows foreign citizens in specialty occupations, like computer engineering, to work in the U.S. temporarily. Silicon Valley employers have long taken advantage of people on these visas — and often hire them instead of American citizens who expect better pay and working conditions. The changes the EAGLE Act would make are not enough to mollify critics like protectionist John Miano, a computer programmer turned lawyer who’s sued multiple administrations over immigration policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among other things, he dislikes the fact that a 1990 law allowed employers of H-1B and L-1 visa holders to apply for green cards for those workers. That extended the U.S. stay of those employees while the applications are processed, and it gave hundreds of thousands of foreign workers like Nambiar hope of a permanent life here. But it also swamped the waiting line for employment-based green cards. The EAGLE Act, Miano argues, would not change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The fundamental problem is that we have a guest worker system, and we have a permanent immigration system. The guest worker system is larger than the permanent immigration system,\" said Miano. \"They used to be separate. You take a large system and you pour it into a small system, and you can see what happens.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comedian John Oliver, who came to the U.S. on a work-based visa himself, explained this dynamic in a 2019 episode of his show \"Last Week Tonight.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I can tell you from experience here, living on a visa can be very stressful, and involves having to jump through endless, costly hoops,\" Oliver said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When his employer finally presented Oliver with a green card, he said he nearly burst into tears from relief: \"That is when I realized I'd been worried about my immigration status every single day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXqnRMU1fTs\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what do those in the epic queue for a green card think of the modest ambitions of the EAGLE Act?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel [if a] Band-Aid is the approach, then [so be] it,\" said Leena Bhai of Sunnyvale. Her family has been waiting on her husband’s green card application for five years. \"Is comprehensive reform even possible? If not, let’s just work with what we can.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Bhai's children was born in the U.S., the other in India. If they don't get their green cards before the child born in India — now 6 — turns 21, he will lose his dependent status, and will have to return to the country of his birth to file his own green card application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the very least, Bhai says, she’s hoping federal lawmakers make clear whether they want families like hers to stay permanently. Because if not, she and her husband are likely to move their family to another country — one where they can feel secure that their young children will be welcome to go to college when that day comes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A bill by Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren could reduce immigration bottlenecks that have kept 1 million skilled workers – most from India and China – waiting years for green cards.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1629332377,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":1401},"headData":{"title":"Silicon Valley Lawmaker Seeks to Shorten Path to Citizenship for Immigrant Tech Workers | KQED","description":"A bill by Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren could reduce immigration bottlenecks that have kept 1 million skilled workers – most from India and China – waiting years for green cards.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11885260 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11885260","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/08/18/silicon-valley-lawmaker-seeks-to-shorten-path-to-citizenship-for-immigrant-tech-workers/","disqusTitle":"Silicon Valley Lawmaker Seeks to Shorten Path to Citizenship for Immigrant Tech Workers","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/42dd94fc-c723-4f18-aaff-ad880123b6ee/audio.mp3","path":"/news/11885260/silicon-valley-lawmaker-seeks-to-shorten-path-to-citizenship-for-immigrant-tech-workers","audioDuration":315000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Many skilled foreign workers — especially from India — wait years, or even decades, for a green card, which would allow them to stay and work in the United States permanently. Federal legislation\u003ca href=\"https://lofgren.house.gov/media/press-releases/lofgren-curtis-introduce-bipartisan-legislation-eliminate-arbitrary-country\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> co-sponsored\u003c/a> by Democratic Silicon Valley Rep. Zoe Lofgren would phase out some of the rules that have created that backlog. But the bill’s survival is far from certain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you spend much time in the tech world, you invariably hear about the epic queue for \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/green-card/green-card-eligibility/green-card-for-employment-based-immigrants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">employment-based green cards\u003c/a>, especially from Indian nationals. Shibin Nambiar of Fremont did when he first moved to the U.S. in 2013 on a temporary H-1B work visa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t realize it today, but down the line, when you’ll have your kid and your wife, and you’re settled and you have a house — that time you’ll realize — you just will never get your green card,\" said Nambiar, a data architect at Rubrik, a cloud data management company based in Palo Alto. \"It’s going to be a life of uncertainty forever.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nambiar applied for a green card in 2015, after he got married, had a kid and bought a house. But he faces a wait so long, he jokes he may have to wait for his 4-year-old son, born here in the U.S., to turn 21 and sponsor him for residency based on their family relationship. \"He can file for us ultimately, and that’s the way we might get a green card!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'If you were born in India, applications filed on Aug. 1, 2010, are being approved today. It doesn’t make any sense to organize it in this way.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Rep. Zoe Lofgren","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>According to 2020 data from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, more than 1 million people are waiting for an employment-based green card. And more people join the queue each year. But immigration law caps the total number of new cards at just 140,000 per year, and spouses and children of green card applicants count toward the annual cap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know, the system that we have now has basically not been changed in many decades, and I think it’s operating in a way that people likely didn’t envision,\" said Lofgren, who co-sponsored the \u003ca href=\"https://lofgren.house.gov/sites/lofgren.house.gov/files/EAGLE%20Act%20Final%20Bill%20Text.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Equal Access to Green cards for Legal Employment\u003c/a>, or EAGLE, Act of 2021. She serves on the Judiciary Committee and chairs the House Immigration and Citizenship Subcommittee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bottleneck is compounded for immigrants from high-demand countries, because U.S. law stipulates that no more than 7% of green cards can go to workers from any single country in a given year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you were born in India, applications filed on Aug. 1, 2010, are being approved today, and it doesn’t make any sense to organize it in this way,\" she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of those waiting for employment-based green cards are from two countries: India and China. Albania and Zimbabwe are allocated the same number as India and China, even though Albania and Zimbabwe don't have nearly as many applicants keen to work in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s worth remembering the only people who actually benefit from this bill are people who’ve gone through all the hoops to become legal permanent residents of the United States,\" said Lofgren. \"And, in a way that’s really un-American, instead of looking at their merits, we’re looking at their place of birth.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, H.R. 3648, phases out the 7% per-country limit on employment-based immigrant visas. It would also raise the 7% per-country limit on family-sponsored immigrant visas to 15%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reducing the bottlenecks and allowing more skilled foreign workers to make a permanent home in the U.S. will benefit the broader economy, said Sean Randolph, senior director of the Bay Area Council Economic Institute, a public-private partnership of business, labor, government and higher education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you look at where a lot of the hiring is from in tech companies, the big story is India,\" Randolph said. \"There is a pretty broad consensus, on a bipartisan level, that we need to support more skilled immigration into the United States.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_10859344,news_11707255,news_11701936","label":"Related Coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But even though the EAGLE Act is widely supported by business interests, its future is not assured. A similar bill failed to make it to President Trump’s desk in 2019. And due to the way partisanship has frozen Washington, D.C., it’s become difficult for Republican lawmakers to publicly support a hot-button issue like immigration reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the EAGLE Act may not move forward as a stand-alone bill, according to a Democratic staffer who asked not to be identified, there's a plan to fold in elements of the bill when the Senate sends its budget to the House for reconciliation, sometime in September. Lofgren was one of roughly a dozen lawmakers lobbying President Biden over the summer for various immigration reforms. It's too soon to say which parts of the bill might survive these negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EAGLE Act also includes reforms to the contentious H-1B visa program, which allows foreign citizens in specialty occupations, like computer engineering, to work in the U.S. temporarily. Silicon Valley employers have long taken advantage of people on these visas — and often hire them instead of American citizens who expect better pay and working conditions. The changes the EAGLE Act would make are not enough to mollify critics like protectionist John Miano, a computer programmer turned lawyer who’s sued multiple administrations over immigration policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among other things, he dislikes the fact that a 1990 law allowed employers of H-1B and L-1 visa holders to apply for green cards for those workers. That extended the U.S. stay of those employees while the applications are processed, and it gave hundreds of thousands of foreign workers like Nambiar hope of a permanent life here. But it also swamped the waiting line for employment-based green cards. The EAGLE Act, Miano argues, would not change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The fundamental problem is that we have a guest worker system, and we have a permanent immigration system. The guest worker system is larger than the permanent immigration system,\" said Miano. \"They used to be separate. You take a large system and you pour it into a small system, and you can see what happens.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comedian John Oliver, who came to the U.S. on a work-based visa himself, explained this dynamic in a 2019 episode of his show \"Last Week Tonight.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I can tell you from experience here, living on a visa can be very stressful, and involves having to jump through endless, costly hoops,\" Oliver said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When his employer finally presented Oliver with a green card, he said he nearly burst into tears from relief: \"That is when I realized I'd been worried about my immigration status every single day.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/tXqnRMU1fTs'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/tXqnRMU1fTs'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>So what do those in the epic queue for a green card think of the modest ambitions of the EAGLE Act?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel [if a] Band-Aid is the approach, then [so be] it,\" said Leena Bhai of Sunnyvale. Her family has been waiting on her husband’s green card application for five years. \"Is comprehensive reform even possible? If not, let’s just work with what we can.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Bhai's children was born in the U.S., the other in India. If they don't get their green cards before the child born in India — now 6 — turns 21, he will lose his dependent status, and will have to return to the country of his birth to file his own green card application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the very least, Bhai says, she’s hoping federal lawmakers make clear whether they want families like hers to stay permanently. Because if not, she and her husband are likely to move their family to another country — one where they can feel secure that their young children will be welcome to go to college when that day comes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11885260/silicon-valley-lawmaker-seeks-to-shorten-path-to-citizenship-for-immigrant-tech-workers","authors":["251"],"categories":["news_1758","news_1169","news_8","news_13","news_248"],"tags":["news_18538","news_20829","news_28145","news_20202","news_23454","news_22750","news_2011","news_353","news_2013"],"featImg":"news_11885556","label":"news"},"news_11859385":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11859385","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11859385","score":null,"sort":[1612910904000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"biden-revoked-the-travel-ban-california-immigrants-hope-to-reunite-with-families","title":"Biden Revoked the Travel Ban. California Immigrants Hope to Reunite With Families","publishDate":1612910904,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>For six years, Armin Deroee has been trying to bring his elderly father to live with him in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Deroee’s 82-year-old dad is in Iran, and the Trump administration's travel ban created an obstacle the family struggled to surmount, despite hiring lawyers, applying for a waiver and persistently writing to U.S. officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Too much time, too much emotion ... and we do not have our dad here yet,” said Deroee, 42, a naturalized U.S. citizen who is an anesthesiologist living in the Central Valley city of Visalia. “It’s been a rough six years for us.”[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Armin Deroee\"]'When I look back at what we’ve been through, I don’t think it’s imaginable for whoever has not been through that process.'[/pullquote]Now that President Biden has revoked the travel restrictions for people from 13 Muslim-majority and African nations, Deroee and others feel hopeful they’ll finally be able to reunite with relatives from those countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/proclamation-ending-discriminatory-bans-on-entry-to-the-united-states/\">proclamation\u003c/a>, signed on his first day in office, labeled the ban discriminatory and detrimental to national security. But it represents just the start of a long process to fully reverse the restrictions, according to advocates who fought the Trump-era policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The rescission of the ban is an important first step, but it does not actually fix the situation for people,” said Aarti Kohli, executive director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice — Asian Law Caucus in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will be watching carefully, working with the administration to make sure that all these people who've been separated from their partners, from their children ... can be reunited with family and in a timely manner,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden has ordered the U.S. State Department to resume processing pending visas for people from the countries targeted by the travel ban: Iran, Eritrea, Libya, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Nigeria, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Yemen and North Korea, as well as certain government officials from Venezuela.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, a State Department spokesperson said the agency will provide guidance to embassies and consulates on how to prioritize processing those pending applications. But the official added that delays may continue for several months as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The pandemic continues to severely impact the number of visas our embassies and consulates abroad are able to process,” the spokesperson said. “We do not expect to be able to safely return to pre-pandemic workload levels until mid-2021 at the earliest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Biden’s order, the State Department must draft a plan within a month for reconsidering visa requests that were denied under the travel ban, and decide whether those applicants should pay additional fees to reopen their cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11859388\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 405px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47187_59a85ff6-5b89-48e5-bfe5-51dc4d976fbb-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11859388 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47187_59a85ff6-5b89-48e5-bfe5-51dc4d976fbb-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"405\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47187_59a85ff6-5b89-48e5-bfe5-51dc4d976fbb-qut.jpg 405w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47187_59a85ff6-5b89-48e5-bfe5-51dc4d976fbb-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47187_59a85ff6-5b89-48e5-bfe5-51dc4d976fbb-qut-354x472.jpg 354w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mohammed Albarak, 26, with his daughter, Amira, on her first birthday on June 20, 2020 in Ibb, Yemen. Albarak, an American citizen who lives in the Bay Area, has asked the U.S. government to allow his Yemeni wife and their daughter to move here. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Mohammed Albarak)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The State Department denied more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11847545/huge-relief-california-immigrants-counting-on-biden-to-end-travel-ban\">41,000 visa requests\u003c/a> due to Trump’s travel restrictions, most of them from Iran. But civil rights groups and immigrant advocates say many more people were impacted by the policy, including those who were discouraged from applying.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Trump's Ban\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Shortly after taking office in January 2017, Trump suspended the entry of nationals from \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/30/512438879/7-targeted-countries-react-to-trumps-ban-on-immigration\">seven Muslim-majority nations\u003c/a> and indefinitely banned refugees from Syria, arguing the measure was necessary to protect the U.S. from terrorist threats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order sparked large protests at airports throughout the country and was challenged in the courts, forcing the administration to twice amend the language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the U.S. Supreme Court allowed its implementation, the ban went into full effect in December 2017. Last year, Trump expanded the restrictions to include some citizens from six mostly African countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mohammed Albarak, a Yemeni American man who works at his father’s corner store in San Francisco, is another U.S. citizen whose family was affected by the ban. Albarak said he didn’t even bother applying to bring over his wife from Yemen until recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Since the travel ban was there, I knew I would have to spend so much time on getting nowhere,” said Albarak, 26, referring to the difficulty of obtaining a waiver, something reserved for people who could prove they suffered “undue hardship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Albarak returned to Yemen in 2018 for his wedding. Last September, he came back to the U.S. to apply for his wife’s visa — and to vote for Biden, in hopes he would end the travel ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Albarak said he believes his family now has a better chance of reuniting in the U.S, though he expects the application to take more than seven months. In the meantime, his wife and 1-year-old daughter are stuck in a country engulfed in war.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can't imagine, like in three or four years when my daughter grows up, how would she even function psychologically and intellectually?” said Albarak, a graduate of UC Davis. “There's no schooling ... the situation is so desperate, you can always hear gunshots nearby.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘What’s Going to Happen Next?’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Deroee, the anesthesiologist, fears for the well-being of his father, an ear, nose and throat doctor. The years-long struggle to get his dad a visa has taken a toll, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can definitely see some depression, anxiety and the feel of hopelessness in my father,” Deroee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"immigration\"]Deroee recently flew to Turkey to accompany his dad to a medical exam at the U.S. Embassy. The exam is a required part of the visa application, but it couldn’t be done in Tehran, since the U.S. has no embassy in Iran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hopes this is the last step his father must complete for an application that began in 2015, when Deroee’s sister requested visas for both of their parents. U.S. officials granted his mother's visa the following year, but required his father to undergo additional screening. Before that was completed, Trump imposed the travel ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, the family won a waiver to the ban, but then faced another barrier: a Trump proclamation that suspended certain visas to protect American jobs during the pandemic. Though that is still in effect, Deroee’s family succeeded in circumventing it after they joined a successful lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I look back at what we’ve been through, I don’t think it’s imaginable for whoever has not been through that process,” said Deroee. “All of us have been in this sense of suspense, of, ‘What’s going to happen next?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deroee said his father, who was 77 when the visa process started, has gone through several rounds of background checks, each of which can take months to complete. He hopes Biden’s administration makes that vetting process less onerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden’s proclamation revoking the travel ban also orders the State and Homeland Security departments to recommend ways to improve the screening of people who seek entry into the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand it’s a necessary process, but it needs to be more efficient,” Deroee said. “The time and energy of these staff in government can be used in better ways, and they are being paid from our tax money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Calling it discriminatory and detrimental to national security, President Biden quickly scrapped the Trump administration's travel ban. But that just begins a long process to fully reverse the ban's wide-ranging restrictions. 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California Immigrants Hope to Reunite With Families","audioUrl":"https:// https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-4[…]f-aaef00f5a073/811a0fa1-437a-41a7-8534-acc9011667a9/audio.mp3","path":"/news/11859385/biden-revoked-the-travel-ban-california-immigrants-hope-to-reunite-with-families","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For six years, Armin Deroee has been trying to bring his elderly father to live with him in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Deroee’s 82-year-old dad is in Iran, and the Trump administration's travel ban created an obstacle the family struggled to surmount, despite hiring lawyers, applying for a waiver and persistently writing to U.S. officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Too much time, too much emotion ... and we do not have our dad here yet,” said Deroee, 42, a naturalized U.S. citizen who is an anesthesiologist living in the Central Valley city of Visalia. “It’s been a rough six years for us.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'When I look back at what we’ve been through, I don’t think it’s imaginable for whoever has not been through that process.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Armin Deroee","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Now that President Biden has revoked the travel restrictions for people from 13 Muslim-majority and African nations, Deroee and others feel hopeful they’ll finally be able to reunite with relatives from those countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/proclamation-ending-discriminatory-bans-on-entry-to-the-united-states/\">proclamation\u003c/a>, signed on his first day in office, labeled the ban discriminatory and detrimental to national security. But it represents just the start of a long process to fully reverse the restrictions, according to advocates who fought the Trump-era policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The rescission of the ban is an important first step, but it does not actually fix the situation for people,” said Aarti Kohli, executive director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice — Asian Law Caucus in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will be watching carefully, working with the administration to make sure that all these people who've been separated from their partners, from their children ... can be reunited with family and in a timely manner,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden has ordered the U.S. State Department to resume processing pending visas for people from the countries targeted by the travel ban: Iran, Eritrea, Libya, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Nigeria, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Yemen and North Korea, as well as certain government officials from Venezuela.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, a State Department spokesperson said the agency will provide guidance to embassies and consulates on how to prioritize processing those pending applications. But the official added that delays may continue for several months as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The pandemic continues to severely impact the number of visas our embassies and consulates abroad are able to process,” the spokesperson said. “We do not expect to be able to safely return to pre-pandemic workload levels until mid-2021 at the earliest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Biden’s order, the State Department must draft a plan within a month for reconsidering visa requests that were denied under the travel ban, and decide whether those applicants should pay additional fees to reopen their cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11859388\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 405px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47187_59a85ff6-5b89-48e5-bfe5-51dc4d976fbb-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11859388 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47187_59a85ff6-5b89-48e5-bfe5-51dc4d976fbb-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"405\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47187_59a85ff6-5b89-48e5-bfe5-51dc4d976fbb-qut.jpg 405w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47187_59a85ff6-5b89-48e5-bfe5-51dc4d976fbb-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS47187_59a85ff6-5b89-48e5-bfe5-51dc4d976fbb-qut-354x472.jpg 354w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mohammed Albarak, 26, with his daughter, Amira, on her first birthday on June 20, 2020 in Ibb, Yemen. Albarak, an American citizen who lives in the Bay Area, has asked the U.S. government to allow his Yemeni wife and their daughter to move here. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Mohammed Albarak)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The State Department denied more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11847545/huge-relief-california-immigrants-counting-on-biden-to-end-travel-ban\">41,000 visa requests\u003c/a> due to Trump’s travel restrictions, most of them from Iran. But civil rights groups and immigrant advocates say many more people were impacted by the policy, including those who were discouraged from applying.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Trump's Ban\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Shortly after taking office in January 2017, Trump suspended the entry of nationals from \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/30/512438879/7-targeted-countries-react-to-trumps-ban-on-immigration\">seven Muslim-majority nations\u003c/a> and indefinitely banned refugees from Syria, arguing the measure was necessary to protect the U.S. from terrorist threats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order sparked large protests at airports throughout the country and was challenged in the courts, forcing the administration to twice amend the language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the U.S. Supreme Court allowed its implementation, the ban went into full effect in December 2017. Last year, Trump expanded the restrictions to include some citizens from six mostly African countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mohammed Albarak, a Yemeni American man who works at his father’s corner store in San Francisco, is another U.S. citizen whose family was affected by the ban. Albarak said he didn’t even bother applying to bring over his wife from Yemen until recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Since the travel ban was there, I knew I would have to spend so much time on getting nowhere,” said Albarak, 26, referring to the difficulty of obtaining a waiver, something reserved for people who could prove they suffered “undue hardship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Albarak returned to Yemen in 2018 for his wedding. Last September, he came back to the U.S. to apply for his wife’s visa — and to vote for Biden, in hopes he would end the travel ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Albarak said he believes his family now has a better chance of reuniting in the U.S, though he expects the application to take more than seven months. In the meantime, his wife and 1-year-old daughter are stuck in a country engulfed in war.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can't imagine, like in three or four years when my daughter grows up, how would she even function psychologically and intellectually?” said Albarak, a graduate of UC Davis. “There's no schooling ... the situation is so desperate, you can always hear gunshots nearby.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘What’s Going to Happen Next?’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Deroee, the anesthesiologist, fears for the well-being of his father, an ear, nose and throat doctor. The years-long struggle to get his dad a visa has taken a toll, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can definitely see some depression, anxiety and the feel of hopelessness in my father,” Deroee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"immigration"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Deroee recently flew to Turkey to accompany his dad to a medical exam at the U.S. Embassy. The exam is a required part of the visa application, but it couldn’t be done in Tehran, since the U.S. has no embassy in Iran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hopes this is the last step his father must complete for an application that began in 2015, when Deroee’s sister requested visas for both of their parents. U.S. officials granted his mother's visa the following year, but required his father to undergo additional screening. Before that was completed, Trump imposed the travel ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, the family won a waiver to the ban, but then faced another barrier: a Trump proclamation that suspended certain visas to protect American jobs during the pandemic. Though that is still in effect, Deroee’s family succeeded in circumventing it after they joined a successful lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I look back at what we’ve been through, I don’t think it’s imaginable for whoever has not been through that process,” said Deroee. “All of us have been in this sense of suspense, of, ‘What’s going to happen next?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deroee said his father, who was 77 when the visa process started, has gone through several rounds of background checks, each of which can take months to complete. He hopes Biden’s administration makes that vetting process less onerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden’s proclamation revoking the travel ban also orders the State and Homeland Security departments to recommend ways to improve the screening of people who seek entry into the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand it’s a necessary process, but it needs to be more efficient,” Deroee said. “The time and energy of these staff in government can be used in better ways, and they are being paid from our tax money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11859385/biden-revoked-the-travel-ban-california-immigrants-hope-to-reunite-with-families","authors":["8659"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_1169","news_8"],"tags":["news_29052","news_27626","news_20829","news_20202","news_29148","news_20467"],"featImg":"news_11859476","label":"news_72"},"news_11777909":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11777909","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11777909","score":null,"sort":[1570116399000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"federal-judge-in-oakland-could-partially-block-trump-rule-targeting-low-income-immigrants","title":"Federal Judge in Oakland Could Partially Block Trump Rule Targeting Low-Income Immigrants","publishDate":1570116399,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Lawyers for San Francisco and Santa Clara counties, the state of California and other plaintiffs tried to persuade a federal judge in Oakland Wednesday to block a Trump administration rule that would deny green cards to immigrants who use public benefits such as Medi-Cal, food stamps and housing vouchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plaintiffs — who also include immigrant service providers, the states of Oregon, Maine and Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia — say the \"public charge\" rule would cause them irreparable harm, forcing local governments to spend more to protect public health and increasing the likelihood of communicable disease outbreaks because fearful immigrants stop seeking medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton signaled that she would decide on whether to block the rule before Oct. 15, when it is set to go into effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she chided the plaintiffs for failing to make a strong case — in legal briefs or in court — that a nationwide injunction is needed. And she stressed that the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last month struck down another judge’s nationwide injunction on a federal asylum restriction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You are requesting [this] without giving me the kind of road map that I think the 9th Circuit requires to enter a nationwide injunction,” Hamilton said. “It leads me to believe that you’re not really serious about me granting this if you haven’t addressed the issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plaintiffs’ attorneys responded that if the policy is blocked in only some states, it would create a confusing patchwork of regulation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anything short of a nationwide injunction will leave our residents confused, scared and ultimately chilled from [using] these benefits,” said San Francisco Deputy City Attorney Matthew Goldberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for the Trump administration, meanwhile, told the judge that the public charge rule is also being challenged in Chicago, New York, Spokane and elsewhere, and a nationwide ruling would interfere with those courts reaching their own decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday’s hearing centered in part on what the term “public charge” actually means.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='public-charge' label='Related Coverage']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Department of Justice lawyers argued that the new rule is in keeping with long-standing federal policy that requires immigrants to be self-sufficient in order to be granted legal permanent residence (known as a green card) — a path to eventual citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DOJ Deputy Assistant Attorney General Ethan Davis said the definition of public charge can include “any maintenance or public assistance from public funds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But plaintiffs argued that for more than 100 years, the government only considered someone a public charge if they had “primary dependence” on the government for survival, including people considered “paupers” and “lunatics.” They said the new rule improperly sweeps in immigrants who accept as little as $180 worth of non-cash assistance — including services such as health care that could actually help them work and become self-sufficient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The states and counties also said they could lose millions of dollars in federal funds if immigrants drop out of Medicaid (known in California as Medi-Cal) for fear of jeopardizing their chance at a green card. San Francisco stands to lose $7.5 million a year and Santa Clara County $4.6 million, said Goldberg, but that doesn’t mean local governments will stop providing health services or nutrition assistance to local residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a proprietary interest in the public health in our communities,” Goldberg said. “We have legal obligations to provide medical care to people who are uninsured.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arguing for the Trump administration, Davis countered that if local governments take a hit, it’s because they choose to spend their own funds on social services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They may spend more money on food pantries and the like, but that’s not a required consequence of the rule,” Davis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that losses by the plaintiffs are “highly speculative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Goldberg said immigrants are already giving up public benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the preferred outcome of the rule, the purpose of the rule,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamilton suggested she might block the public charge rule, but more narrowly than the plaintiffs requested. She called on both parties to submit additional briefs by Oct. 7 proposing a more limited ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Assuming I don’t issue a nationwide injunction and assuming I do think it should be enjoined,” she said, “I’d like to hear from both sides on what an injunction should look like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Farida Jhabvala Romero contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In a legal challenge by California and local counties to the new 'public charge' rule, Judge Phyllis Hamilton suggested a narrow ruling rather than a nationwide injunction.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1570126375,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":25,"wordCount":784},"headData":{"title":"Federal Judge in Oakland Could Partially Block Trump Rule Targeting Low-Income Immigrants | KQED","description":"In a legal challenge by California and local counties to the new 'public charge' rule, Judge Phyllis Hamilton suggested a narrow ruling rather than a nationwide injunction.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11777909 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11777909","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/10/03/federal-judge-in-oakland-could-partially-block-trump-rule-targeting-low-income-immigrants/","disqusTitle":"Federal Judge in Oakland Could Partially Block Trump Rule Targeting Low-Income Immigrants","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2019/10/RomeroPublicCharge.mp3","audioTrackLength":81,"path":"/news/11777909/federal-judge-in-oakland-could-partially-block-trump-rule-targeting-low-income-immigrants","audioDuration":81000,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Lawyers for San Francisco and Santa Clara counties, the state of California and other plaintiffs tried to persuade a federal judge in Oakland Wednesday to block a Trump administration rule that would deny green cards to immigrants who use public benefits such as Medi-Cal, food stamps and housing vouchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plaintiffs — who also include immigrant service providers, the states of Oregon, Maine and Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia — say the \"public charge\" rule would cause them irreparable harm, forcing local governments to spend more to protect public health and increasing the likelihood of communicable disease outbreaks because fearful immigrants stop seeking medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton signaled that she would decide on whether to block the rule before Oct. 15, when it is set to go into effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she chided the plaintiffs for failing to make a strong case — in legal briefs or in court — that a nationwide injunction is needed. And she stressed that the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last month struck down another judge’s nationwide injunction on a federal asylum restriction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You are requesting [this] without giving me the kind of road map that I think the 9th Circuit requires to enter a nationwide injunction,” Hamilton said. “It leads me to believe that you’re not really serious about me granting this if you haven’t addressed the issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plaintiffs’ attorneys responded that if the policy is blocked in only some states, it would create a confusing patchwork of regulation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anything short of a nationwide injunction will leave our residents confused, scared and ultimately chilled from [using] these benefits,” said San Francisco Deputy City Attorney Matthew Goldberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for the Trump administration, meanwhile, told the judge that the public charge rule is also being challenged in Chicago, New York, Spokane and elsewhere, and a nationwide ruling would interfere with those courts reaching their own decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday’s hearing centered in part on what the term “public charge” actually means.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"public-charge","label":"Related Coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Department of Justice lawyers argued that the new rule is in keeping with long-standing federal policy that requires immigrants to be self-sufficient in order to be granted legal permanent residence (known as a green card) — a path to eventual citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DOJ Deputy Assistant Attorney General Ethan Davis said the definition of public charge can include “any maintenance or public assistance from public funds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But plaintiffs argued that for more than 100 years, the government only considered someone a public charge if they had “primary dependence” on the government for survival, including people considered “paupers” and “lunatics.” They said the new rule improperly sweeps in immigrants who accept as little as $180 worth of non-cash assistance — including services such as health care that could actually help them work and become self-sufficient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The states and counties also said they could lose millions of dollars in federal funds if immigrants drop out of Medicaid (known in California as Medi-Cal) for fear of jeopardizing their chance at a green card. San Francisco stands to lose $7.5 million a year and Santa Clara County $4.6 million, said Goldberg, but that doesn’t mean local governments will stop providing health services or nutrition assistance to local residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a proprietary interest in the public health in our communities,” Goldberg said. “We have legal obligations to provide medical care to people who are uninsured.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arguing for the Trump administration, Davis countered that if local governments take a hit, it’s because they choose to spend their own funds on social services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They may spend more money on food pantries and the like, but that’s not a required consequence of the rule,” Davis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that losses by the plaintiffs are “highly speculative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Goldberg said immigrants are already giving up public benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the preferred outcome of the rule, the purpose of the rule,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamilton suggested she might block the public charge rule, but more narrowly than the plaintiffs requested. She called on both parties to submit additional briefs by Oct. 7 proposing a more limited ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Assuming I don’t issue a nationwide injunction and assuming I do think it should be enjoined,” she said, “I’d like to hear from both sides on what an injunction should look like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Farida Jhabvala Romero contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11777909/federal-judge-in-oakland-could-partially-block-trump-rule-targeting-low-income-immigrants","authors":["259"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_1169","news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_20829","news_20202","news_2605","news_20530","news_24494"],"featImg":"news_11777951","label":"news_72"},"news_11745013":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11745013","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11745013","score":null,"sort":[1557140439000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"free-immigration-applications-may-become-harder-to-get-under-federal-proposal","title":"Free Immigration Applications May Become Harder to Get Under Federal Proposal","publishDate":1557140439,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>A plan in the works from the Trump administration could make it harder for immigrants to request an exemption from fees when they seek to become citizens or legal permanent residents of the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monday is the deadline for public comments on a proposal that would eliminate proof of means-tested benefits, such as Medi-Cal or CalFresh food stamps, as a way to qualify for fee waivers in immigration applications. The agency would still offer to waive fees for applicants who can show through other documents they are very low income or have a financial hardship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, the move could exclude more than 200,000 potential applicants for citizenship from obtaining fee waivers, and is likely to discourage others from applying, according to researchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An application for citizenship costs a total of $725, while a request for a green card is $1,225.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents argue that the proposal from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services would lengthen and complicate the process of requesting a free application by dropping the most straightforward way for people to prove that their income is low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This proposal has the potential to affect our clients really seriously, and limit their ability to file their applications,” said Alyssa Simpson, supervising attorney with Catholic Charities of the East Bay. The nonprofit helps about 1,600 low-income immigrants per year to apply for citizenship and humanitarian relief and other visas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='immigration-policy' label='More on Immigration Policy']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to be a longer and dragged-out process,” Simpson added. “It's the sort of thing that's going to make people have to seek out lawyers or community agencies when, in the past, they might have been able to file on their own.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, USCIS will waive the application fees of immigrants who are enrolled in means-tested programs administered by states, or who can prove through other documents that they are very low income or have a financial hardship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency argues that the “means-tested benefit receipt” is unfair and should be eliminated, because different states use different income levels to grant food stamps and other federally funded programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Consequently, a fee waiver may be granted for one person who has a certain level of income in one state, but denied for a person with that same income who lives in another state,” according to the USCIS \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/04/05/2019-06657/agency-information-collection-activities-revision-of-a-currently-approved-collection-request-for-fee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">notice\u003c/a> in the Federal Register.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>USCIS did not return requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11745015\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11745015\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS36944_Photo-2-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS36944_Photo-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS36944_Photo-2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS36944_Photo-2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS36944_Photo-2-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS36944_Photo-2-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A student reviews a civics lesson for the citizenship exam on March 22, 2018, at a community center in Redwood City, California. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>About 220,000 people in California who are eligible for citizenship and also enrolled in means-tested programs would no longer qualify for a free application if the new policy takes effect, said Michael Hotard, a researcher with the Immigration Policy Lab at Stanford University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the changes could deter eligible green card holders from becoming U.S. citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Making it harder to use the fee waiver will certainly discourage some potential citizens from actually applying,” said Hotard, the lead author in a recent \u003ca href=\"https://immigrationlab.org/project/how-a-simple-nudge-could-boost-citizenship-rates/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study\u003c/a> that found that just telling low-income immigrants that they might qualify for a fee waiver boosted citizenship application rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='small' align='right' citation='Melissa Rodgers, director of programs for New Americans Campaign']'I think it's an extremely cynical proposal from an agency that right now is proposing to make it harder for poor people to access immigration benefits for which they qualify by attacking the fee waiver pathway'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, roughly 2.4 million people are eligible to become naturalized citizens, and about half of them are eligible to have their application fee waived, a higher proportion than for the rest of the country, according to Hotard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed change to fee waivers comes as the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees USCIS, put forward a \u003ca href=\"http://src.bna.com/wmv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">budget plan\u003c/a> earlier this year to move nearly $208 million in revenue from USCIS application fees to support agents working on immigration enforcement. Congress declined the request, citing concerns about USCIS’s backlog of more than 750,000 pending immigration applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melissa Rodgers, who directs the New Americans Campaign, a national coalition of nonprofits, decried that plan to divert money from processing immigration applications to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it's an extremely cynical proposal from an agency that right now is proposing to make it harder for poor people to access immigration benefits for which they qualify by attacking the fee waiver pathway,” said Rodgers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='green-card' label='Naturalization in the U.S.']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike most other federal agencies, which are funded by appropriations from Congress, USCIS depends on the fees it collects from immigrants to cover the majority of its operating costs. The agency periodically reviews its fees, and implemented its latest fee increase in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>USCIS waived an estimated $344 million in fees in fiscal year 2016, up from $223 million in 2013, according to a U.S. Department of Homeland Security \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/USCIS%20-%20Fee%20Waiver%20Policies%20and%20Data.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report\u003c/a> to Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becoming naturalized U.S. citizens gives people born abroad the right to vote and protects them from deportation. Research also suggests that immigrants who become citizens are able to earn higher wages, which can benefit their families and larger communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We live in areas where immigrants are living and working, and they're our friends our neighbors, and so I think it affects all of us,” said Simpson, the attorney.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"More than 200,000 potential citizenship applicants in California may lose fee waiver option.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1557177788,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":934},"headData":{"title":"Free Immigration Applications May Become Harder to Get Under Federal Proposal | KQED","description":"More than 200,000 potential citizenship applicants in California may lose fee waiver option.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11745013 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11745013","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/05/06/free-immigration-applications-may-become-harder-to-get-under-federal-proposal/","disqusTitle":"Free Immigration Applications May Become Harder to Get Under Federal Proposal","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2019/05/RomeroUSCISFeeWaivers.mp3","audioTrackLength":141,"path":"/news/11745013/free-immigration-applications-may-become-harder-to-get-under-federal-proposal","parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A plan in the works from the Trump administration could make it harder for immigrants to request an exemption from fees when they seek to become citizens or legal permanent residents of the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monday is the deadline for public comments on a proposal that would eliminate proof of means-tested benefits, such as Medi-Cal or CalFresh food stamps, as a way to qualify for fee waivers in immigration applications. The agency would still offer to waive fees for applicants who can show through other documents they are very low income or have a financial hardship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, the move could exclude more than 200,000 potential applicants for citizenship from obtaining fee waivers, and is likely to discourage others from applying, according to researchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An application for citizenship costs a total of $725, while a request for a green card is $1,225.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents argue that the proposal from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services would lengthen and complicate the process of requesting a free application by dropping the most straightforward way for people to prove that their income is low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This proposal has the potential to affect our clients really seriously, and limit their ability to file their applications,” said Alyssa Simpson, supervising attorney with Catholic Charities of the East Bay. The nonprofit helps about 1,600 low-income immigrants per year to apply for citizenship and humanitarian relief and other visas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"immigration-policy","label":"More on Immigration Policy "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to be a longer and dragged-out process,” Simpson added. “It's the sort of thing that's going to make people have to seek out lawyers or community agencies when, in the past, they might have been able to file on their own.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, USCIS will waive the application fees of immigrants who are enrolled in means-tested programs administered by states, or who can prove through other documents that they are very low income or have a financial hardship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency argues that the “means-tested benefit receipt” is unfair and should be eliminated, because different states use different income levels to grant food stamps and other federally funded programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Consequently, a fee waiver may be granted for one person who has a certain level of income in one state, but denied for a person with that same income who lives in another state,” according to the USCIS \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/04/05/2019-06657/agency-information-collection-activities-revision-of-a-currently-approved-collection-request-for-fee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">notice\u003c/a> in the Federal Register.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>USCIS did not return requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11745015\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11745015\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS36944_Photo-2-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS36944_Photo-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS36944_Photo-2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS36944_Photo-2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS36944_Photo-2-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/05/RS36944_Photo-2-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A student reviews a civics lesson for the citizenship exam on March 22, 2018, at a community center in Redwood City, California. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>About 220,000 people in California who are eligible for citizenship and also enrolled in means-tested programs would no longer qualify for a free application if the new policy takes effect, said Michael Hotard, a researcher with the Immigration Policy Lab at Stanford University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the changes could deter eligible green card holders from becoming U.S. citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Making it harder to use the fee waiver will certainly discourage some potential citizens from actually applying,” said Hotard, the lead author in a recent \u003ca href=\"https://immigrationlab.org/project/how-a-simple-nudge-could-boost-citizenship-rates/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study\u003c/a> that found that just telling low-income immigrants that they might qualify for a fee waiver boosted citizenship application rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'I think it's an extremely cynical proposal from an agency that right now is proposing to make it harder for poor people to access immigration benefits for which they qualify by attacking the fee waiver pathway'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"small","align":"right","citation":"Melissa Rodgers, director of programs for New Americans Campaign","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, roughly 2.4 million people are eligible to become naturalized citizens, and about half of them are eligible to have their application fee waived, a higher proportion than for the rest of the country, according to Hotard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed change to fee waivers comes as the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees USCIS, put forward a \u003ca href=\"http://src.bna.com/wmv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">budget plan\u003c/a> earlier this year to move nearly $208 million in revenue from USCIS application fees to support agents working on immigration enforcement. Congress declined the request, citing concerns about USCIS’s backlog of more than 750,000 pending immigration applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melissa Rodgers, who directs the New Americans Campaign, a national coalition of nonprofits, decried that plan to divert money from processing immigration applications to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it's an extremely cynical proposal from an agency that right now is proposing to make it harder for poor people to access immigration benefits for which they qualify by attacking the fee waiver pathway,” said Rodgers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"green-card","label":"Naturalization in the U.S. "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike most other federal agencies, which are funded by appropriations from Congress, USCIS depends on the fees it collects from immigrants to cover the majority of its operating costs. The agency periodically reviews its fees, and implemented its latest fee increase in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>USCIS waived an estimated $344 million in fees in fiscal year 2016, up from $223 million in 2013, according to a U.S. Department of Homeland Security \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/USCIS%20-%20Fee%20Waiver%20Policies%20and%20Data.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report\u003c/a> to Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becoming naturalized U.S. citizens gives people born abroad the right to vote and protects them from deportation. Research also suggests that immigrants who become citizens are able to earn higher wages, which can benefit their families and larger communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We live in areas where immigrants are living and working, and they're our friends our neighbors, and so I think it affects all of us,” said Simpson, the attorney.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11745013/free-immigration-applications-may-become-harder-to-get-under-federal-proposal","authors":["8659"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_1758","news_1169","news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_18538","news_22883","news_3716","news_19542","news_20829","news_24303","news_22530"],"featImg":"news_11745017","label":"news_72"},"news_11721431":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11721431","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11721431","score":null,"sort":[1548610616000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"fear-of-deportation-or-green-card-denial-deters-some-parents-from-getting-kids-care","title":"Fear of Deportation or Green Card Denial Deters Some Parents From Getting Kids Care","publishDate":1548610616,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>As U.S. immigration enforcement becomes stricter under the Trump administration, more immigrant families are cutting ties with health care services and other critical government programs, according to child advocates who work with these families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Texas, researchers studying the issue say it's a major reason why more children are going without health insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ana, who lives in Central Texas with her husband and two children, has been increasingly hesitant to seek help from the government. In particular, she's worried about getting help for her 9-year-old daughter, Sara, who was diagnosed with autism a few years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ana entered the country without documentation about 10 years ago, which is why NPR has agreed not to use her last name. Both her children were born in the U.S. and have been covered by Medicaid for years. But ever since President Trump took office, Ana has only been using the program for basics — such as checkups and vaccinations for the kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This decision to forgo care comes at a cost. Managing Sara's behavior has been challenging, even after the diagnosis brought some clarity about what was going on. Sara acts out and has tantrums, sometimes in public places. Ana finds it difficult to soothe her daughter, and it's become more awkward as Sara grows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To other people, Sara just seems spoiled or a brat,\" Ana says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the diagnosis, Ana felt unsure about her next steps. She eventually went to a nonprofit in Austin that guides and supports parents whose children have disabilities. It's called \u003ca href=\"http://velafamilies.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vela\u003c/a> (\"candle\" in Spanish).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Vela, Ana learned about a range of services Sara could get access to via her Medicaid plan — including therapy to help the child communicate better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the thought of asking for more government services for her daughter increased Ana's anxiety. \"I am looking for groups who are \u003cem>not\u003c/em> associated with the government,\" Ana explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ana is in the middle of the long, expensive legal process of applying for permanent resident status, known informally as a \"green card.\" Recently, the Trump administration announced that it may tighten part of this process – the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/09/22/650808003/trump-administration-will-seek-to-limit-green-cards-for-immigrants-needing-publi\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\"public charge\"\u003c/a> assessment. The assessment scrutinizes how many government services a green card applicant currently uses — or \u003cem>might \u003c/em>use later in life. If a person uses many government services, they could pose a net financial burden on the federal budget — or so goes the rationale. The government's algorithms are complex, but \"public charge\" is part of the determination for who gets a green card and who doesn't.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rule change proposed by the Trump administration — which may not come to pass — has already led many applicants, or would-be applicants, to be wary of \u003cem>all\u003c/em> government services, even those that wouldn't affect their applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am afraid they will not give me a legal resident status,\" Ana says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her husband already has a green card, and the couple is determined to not jeopardize Ana's ongoing application. So they have decided — just to be safe — to avoid seeking any more help from the government. That's even though their daughter, who is a citizen, needs more therapy than she's getting right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel bad that I have to do that,\" Ana says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she would love to treat her daughter's autism, but has decided that there is nothing more important than getting that green card, in order to keep the family together in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm running into families that, when it's time for re-enrollment or reapplication, they are pausing and they are questioning if they should,\" says Nadine Rueb, a clinical social worker dealing with Ana's case at Vela.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reub says a range of fears are behind immigrants avoidance of government services. Some are staying under the radar to avoid immediate deportation. Others are more like Ana — they just want to be in the best position possible to finally get permanent legal status and move on with their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The climate of fear is so pervasive at this point, and there is so much misinformation out there,\" says \u003ca href=\"https://www.childrensdefense.org/staff/cheasty-anderson/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cheasty Anderson\u003c/a>, a Senior Policy Associate with the Children's Defense Fund in Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson thinks the parents' fears have led to an uptick in children going without health coverage in Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ccf.georgetown.edu/2018/11/21/nations-progress-on-childrens-health-coverage-reverses-course/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A recent study\u003c/a> from Georgetown University's\u003ca href=\"https://ccf.georgetown.edu/\"> Center for Children and Families\u003c/a> found that one out of every five uninsured kids in the U.S. lives in Texas. And a big percentage of those uninsured children are Latino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://ccf.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/UninsuredKids2018_Final_asof1128743pm.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">report\u003c/a> shows that after years of steady decline, the number (and percentage) of uninsured children in the U.S. increased in 2017, the first year of Trump's presidency. Nationally, 5 percent of all kids are uninsured — and in Texas the rate rose to 10.7 percent, up from 9.8 percent in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ccf.georgetown.edu/author/joan-alker/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joan Alker\u003c/a>, the author of the Georgetown report, says the Trump administration's effort to crack down on both legal and illegal immigration is one of many factors driving up the uninsured rates. And it's especially perceptible in Texas, where a quarter of children have a parent who is either undocumented, or who is trying to become a legal resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For these mixed-status families, there is likely a heightened fear of interacting with the government, and this may be deterring them from signing up their eligible children up for government-sponsored health care,\" Alker said in a phone call with reporters in November, when the report was released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson says the repercussions fall hardest on kids with disabilities — kids who need services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Texas is proud to be Texas in so many ways, but this is one way in which we are failing ourselves,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the perspective of Reub, a disability rights specialist, timing is an essential issue for these children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The sooner you catch [the diagnosis or condition], the sooner you support the child [and] the sooner you support the family,\" Reub says. \"I think it's just a win-win for everybody. You are supporting the emotions of the family, and then that supports the child.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, Ana says she's relying on the services offered by her daughter's public school — which aren't counted in the federal government's \"public charge\" assessment. And she'll keep doing that until she gets that green card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of NPR's reporting partnership with KUT and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kaiser Health News\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 KUT 90.5. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://kut.org\">KUT 90.5\u003c/a>.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Fear+Of+Deportation+Or+Green+Card+Denial+Deters+Some+Parents+From+Getting+Kids+Care&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A Texas girl needs autism treatment, but her immigrant mother is afraid of turning to Medicaid. As more U.S. children go without health coverage, border watchers partly blame politics of intimidation.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1551899767,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":31,"wordCount":1110},"headData":{"title":"Fear of Deportation or Green Card Denial Deters Some Parents From Getting Kids Care | KQED","description":"A Texas girl needs autism treatment, but her immigrant mother is afraid of turning to Medicaid. 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In particular, she's worried about getting help for her 9-year-old daughter, Sara, who was diagnosed with autism a few years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ana entered the country without documentation about 10 years ago, which is why NPR has agreed not to use her last name. Both her children were born in the U.S. and have been covered by Medicaid for years. But ever since President Trump took office, Ana has only been using the program for basics — such as checkups and vaccinations for the kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This decision to forgo care comes at a cost. Managing Sara's behavior has been challenging, even after the diagnosis brought some clarity about what was going on. Sara acts out and has tantrums, sometimes in public places. Ana finds it difficult to soothe her daughter, and it's become more awkward as Sara grows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To other people, Sara just seems spoiled or a brat,\" Ana says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the diagnosis, Ana felt unsure about her next steps. She eventually went to a nonprofit in Austin that guides and supports parents whose children have disabilities. It's called \u003ca href=\"http://velafamilies.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vela\u003c/a> (\"candle\" in Spanish).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Vela, Ana learned about a range of services Sara could get access to via her Medicaid plan — including therapy to help the child communicate better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the thought of asking for more government services for her daughter increased Ana's anxiety. \"I am looking for groups who are \u003cem>not\u003c/em> associated with the government,\" Ana explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ana is in the middle of the long, expensive legal process of applying for permanent resident status, known informally as a \"green card.\" Recently, the Trump administration announced that it may tighten part of this process – the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/09/22/650808003/trump-administration-will-seek-to-limit-green-cards-for-immigrants-needing-publi\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\"public charge\"\u003c/a> assessment. The assessment scrutinizes how many government services a green card applicant currently uses — or \u003cem>might \u003c/em>use later in life. If a person uses many government services, they could pose a net financial burden on the federal budget — or so goes the rationale. The government's algorithms are complex, but \"public charge\" is part of the determination for who gets a green card and who doesn't.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rule change proposed by the Trump administration — which may not come to pass — has already led many applicants, or would-be applicants, to be wary of \u003cem>all\u003c/em> government services, even those that wouldn't affect their applications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am afraid they will not give me a legal resident status,\" Ana says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her husband already has a green card, and the couple is determined to not jeopardize Ana's ongoing application. So they have decided — just to be safe — to avoid seeking any more help from the government. That's even though their daughter, who is a citizen, needs more therapy than she's getting right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel bad that I have to do that,\" Ana says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she would love to treat her daughter's autism, but has decided that there is nothing more important than getting that green card, in order to keep the family together in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm running into families that, when it's time for re-enrollment or reapplication, they are pausing and they are questioning if they should,\" says Nadine Rueb, a clinical social worker dealing with Ana's case at Vela.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reub says a range of fears are behind immigrants avoidance of government services. Some are staying under the radar to avoid immediate deportation. Others are more like Ana — they just want to be in the best position possible to finally get permanent legal status and move on with their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The climate of fear is so pervasive at this point, and there is so much misinformation out there,\" says \u003ca href=\"https://www.childrensdefense.org/staff/cheasty-anderson/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cheasty Anderson\u003c/a>, a Senior Policy Associate with the Children's Defense Fund in Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson thinks the parents' fears have led to an uptick in children going without health coverage in Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ccf.georgetown.edu/2018/11/21/nations-progress-on-childrens-health-coverage-reverses-course/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A recent study\u003c/a> from Georgetown University's\u003ca href=\"https://ccf.georgetown.edu/\"> Center for Children and Families\u003c/a> found that one out of every five uninsured kids in the U.S. lives in Texas. And a big percentage of those uninsured children are Latino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://ccf.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/UninsuredKids2018_Final_asof1128743pm.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">report\u003c/a> shows that after years of steady decline, the number (and percentage) of uninsured children in the U.S. increased in 2017, the first year of Trump's presidency. Nationally, 5 percent of all kids are uninsured — and in Texas the rate rose to 10.7 percent, up from 9.8 percent in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ccf.georgetown.edu/author/joan-alker/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joan Alker\u003c/a>, the author of the Georgetown report, says the Trump administration's effort to crack down on both legal and illegal immigration is one of many factors driving up the uninsured rates. And it's especially perceptible in Texas, where a quarter of children have a parent who is either undocumented, or who is trying to become a legal resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For these mixed-status families, there is likely a heightened fear of interacting with the government, and this may be deterring them from signing up their eligible children up for government-sponsored health care,\" Alker said in a phone call with reporters in November, when the report was released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson says the repercussions fall hardest on kids with disabilities — kids who need services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Texas is proud to be Texas in so many ways, but this is one way in which we are failing ourselves,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the perspective of Reub, a disability rights specialist, timing is an essential issue for these children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The sooner you catch [the diagnosis or condition], the sooner you support the child [and] the sooner you support the family,\" Reub says. \"I think it's just a win-win for everybody. You are supporting the emotions of the family, and then that supports the child.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, Ana says she's relying on the services offered by her daughter's public school — which aren't counted in the federal government's \"public charge\" assessment. And she'll keep doing that until she gets that green card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of NPR's reporting partnership with KUT and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kaiser Health News\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 KUT 90.5. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://kut.org\">KUT 90.5\u003c/a>.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Fear+Of+Deportation+Or+Green+Card+Denial+Deters+Some+Parents+From+Getting+Kids+Care&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11721431/fear-of-deportation-or-green-card-denial-deters-some-parents-from-getting-kids-care","authors":["byline_news_11721431"],"categories":["news_457","news_1169","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_19542","news_20829","news_20666","news_23524"],"featImg":"news_11721432","label":"source_news_11721431"},"news_11707255":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11707255","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11707255","score":null,"sort":[1542625219000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"what-silicon-valley-could-lose-if-trump-revokes-h-1b-spousal-work-visas","title":"What Silicon Valley Could Lose If Trump Revokes H-1B Spousal Work Visas","publishDate":1542625219,"format":"audio","headTitle":"What Silicon Valley Could Lose If Trump Revokes H-1B Spousal Work Visas | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>A small number of people — spouses of H1B visa holders — were given the right to work under a special type of visa created under President Obama in 2015. 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People want to get away from anything that’s associated with public benefits,” said Dyer. “But we're afraid of the health repercussions if they don't get the healthy food they need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public charge rule could trigger a big disenrollment from safety net programs that health and social service providers in California have worked for years to promote, said Michael Fix, a researcher with the Migration Policy Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fix believes the reaction among immigrants could be similar to what happened after the passage of the 1996 welfare reform act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We found the impact on immigrants was not just broad but it had unanticipated outcomes,” he said. “By that I mean, populations that weren’t the target of the law disenrolled from public benefit programs out of fear and confusion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fix estimates only about 26,000 non-citizens in the Bay Area today depend on the government for cash assistance — Supplemental Security Income and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families — and could currently be considered a public charge by immigration officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if the federal government expands the public charge test to Medi-Cal and food stamp users, thousands more immigrants could face difficulty if they apply for a green card. And uncertainty could lead as many as one million people in the region to consider abandoning programs they are eligible for, said Fix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we're talking about here is people who live in family situations that would be likely to feel the kind of chilling effects we saw with the 1996 law,” said Fix, who presented his findings at a meeting of dozens of county workers and non-profit service providers this week in San Mateo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed changes aim to “promote immigrant self-sufficiency and protect finite resources by ensuring that they are not likely to become burdens on American taxpayers,\" said Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that reasoning doesn’t make sense to Hope Nakamura, an attorney who runs the public benefits practice at the Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These support programs that they’re trying to add to the public charge roll actually help families in the long run become self-sufficient,” Nakamura said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have many years of experience seeing immigrant families who relied on public benefits temporarily because of an injury or becoming unemployed, and then they become self-sufficient citizens in our community,” she said. “Their kids graduate from UC Berkeley.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=USCIS-2010-0012-0001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">public can weigh in\u003c/a> on the proposed rule until Dec. 10. Already, 46,200 comments have been submitted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unauthorized immigrants are not eligible for most taxpayer-funded benefits.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A proposed “public charge” rule would penalize immigrants who use health, housing and nutrition benefits.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1541905765,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":716},"headData":{"title":"Thousands in Bay Area Could Shun Safety Net Assistance if Trump Plan Takes Effect | KQED","description":"A proposed “public charge” rule would penalize immigrants who use health, housing and nutrition benefits.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11705442 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11705442","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/11/10/thousands-in-bay-area-could-shun-safety-net-assistance-if-trump-plan-takes-effect/","disqusTitle":"Thousands in Bay Area Could Shun Safety Net Assistance if Trump Plan Takes Effect","path":"/news/11705442/thousands-in-bay-area-could-shun-safety-net-assistance-if-trump-plan-takes-effect","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A new plan by the Trump administration to penalize legal immigrants if they use certain public benefits is causing widespread concern among Bay Area health and social service providers, who say the proposed rule is already compelling nervous immigrant parents to skip health and nutrition programs for their U.S. citizen children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the rule is implemented, the ripple effects could be felt among hundreds of thousands of people in the Bay Area, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5032856-Chilling-Effects-Bay-Area-Migration-Policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new analysis\u003c/a> by the Migration Policy Institute, a non-partisan think tank in Washington, D.C., that was prepared for the Silicon Valley Community Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the Trump administration’s so-called \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2018/09/22/dhs-announces-new-proposed-immigration-rule-enforce-long-standing-law-promotes-self\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“public charge” proposal\u003c/a>, non-citizens in the U.S. on temporary visas would have a tougher road qualifying for green cards — and eventually U.S. citizenship — if they use Medi-Cal, food stamps, Section 8 housing vouchers and other taxpayer-funded benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security say the changes are needed to protect American taxpayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 447-page plan notes that the use of public benefits by U.S. citizen children should not hurt an immigrant parent’s application for a green card, or lawful permanent residence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, families are already dropping out of programs, even those that are not targeted by the draft rule, such as subsidies for school lunches, said Anna Dyer, director of services at the Second Harvest Food Bank in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just has an incredible fear factor. 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