Taking steps for citizenship of children of legal immigrants: US
The White House said the Biden administration is taking steps to provide a legal path to citizenship for the children of legal immigrants who fear being deported because of age.
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters at her daily news conference in response to questions on fear among a section of India’s children over the decades-long wait for their green cards.
His parents came to the US as legal immigrants on H-1B visas. Under US laws, children cease to depend on their parents after the age of 21. As a result, thousands of Indian children are facing old age.
According to Improve the Dream, a group representing such children, they number more than 200,000.
Saki said, “Obviously we are taking steps to ensure that we are providing a legal route to citizenship and especially for children coming into this country, as you have with your family members.” Innocently referenced.”
A White House spokesman said President Joe Biden is clear that America’s immigration system needs reform.
“That includes reforms to the visa process. He’s very clear in the immigration bill he sent to Congress. This includes family- based immigration system. The spokesperson told PTI.
“The bill gives dependents of H-1B visa holders the right to work and children are prevented from ageing,” the spokesperson said.
In June, House aides led by Congresswoman Deborah Ross and Ami Bera in a letter to Secretary of Homeland Security Meyerkas recommended strengthening protections for children and young adults who are dependents of long-term work visa holders in the United States. grew up as. , a group known as the “Document Dreamers”.
The letter recommends updating the DACA criteria to include “document dreamers” and adjusting the way USCIS determines a person’s age.
“Nearly 200,000 children of nonimmigrant visa holders who know the US as their only home are at risk of self-deportation to a country that is not home and their families due to a decades-long backlog in immigrants. Visa system,” Bera said in a statement in June.
“As a nation of immigrants, it is not that we should turn our backs on the people who call America home,” he said.
For the past several months, a group of Indian American children have been wandering from door to door in the US capital to raise their voices.
He is also receiving a positive response from both the Biden administration and the US Congress. But, till now their problem has not been solved.
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