Return-Path: <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id f3QLHXf27424; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 17:17:33 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 17:17:33 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.1.20010426154701.00c15d00@mail.orbis.net> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: LeeAnn Wolf <lwolf@theMLC.org> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:5899] Re: FW: 245i Immigration Policy Update X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Status: O Content-Length: 2846 Lines: 66 Aliza, Could you send me the entire update from the National Immigration Forum? Thanks. LeeAnn Wolf Minnesota Literacy Council At 04:30 PM 4/26/01 -0400, you wrote: >I have edited this to includes only the update on 245i. I have had requests >from people on both of these lists to continue to provide updates on this >issue. This one is from Maurice Belanger of the National Immigration Forum. > >If this is not a topic of interest to you, please feel free to delete. > >Aliza > > >245(i) Deadline is April 30. > >April 30 is the deadline for family and employer sponsors to file for >immigrant family members or employees in order for the immigrant's right to >adjust status under Section 245(i) to be preserved. By the time you read >this, the Immigration and Naturalization Service should have posted on its >website at http://www.ins.usdoj.gov/graphics/index.htm a list of extended >office hours for Saturday, April 28 and Monday, April 30 for those filing at >the last minute. > >In Congress today, Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NB), introduced a bill to extend >Section 245(i) for one year, until April 30, 2002. Original co-sponsors on >that bill are Senators Kennedy (D-MA), Clinton (D-NY), and Schumer (D-NY). >The Senate bill is the third introduced in Congress this year. There are >two in the House--one introduced by Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY), and one >introduced by Rep. Peter King (R-NY). While the bills will not pass before >the current provision expires, the Senate bill, with its prominent >Republican sponsor, shows a growing interest in Congress in revisiting the >245(i) deadline this year. > >The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA) has >written a flyer describing how one might file their own family-based >petition, as the deadline approaches and legal service providers are unable >to assist those who will come to them at the last minute. Attached are a >Spanish and English version of the flyer. > >Below is a note explaining the flyers from Vianey Cano of CHIRLA. > >============ >Attached, you will find a one-page flyer entitled "How to do our own >family-based Petition under 245(i)" that we have prepared thinking of those >who will file in the next days, but who will not have anyone assisting them >to do it. I have sent it to service providers from the LA area who might >find it helpful as we approach the deadline and feel that they will not be >able to serve all those who come to their offices and during their group >presentations. > >Please note that the handout indicates that an I-130 is attached, so, if you >know of anyone who would like to use it, they should attach a copy of the >I-130 or delete that part of the text (paragraph #3). > >[NOTE: the flyer should also be adapted at the bottom to refer to the INS >service center and office in your area. -mb] > > > > >
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