Dear all, there is an event for AILA on this Friday Feb. 5. Its free and open to public, try to register and attend it virtually https://agora.aila.org/Conference/Detail/1880 . When you attend raise the issue of asylees citizenship waiting time. Unfortunately, some advocates think that asylees doesn't necessary need help, which completely contradicts their mission of advocating for the immigrants. The vast majority of us are waiting over 5 years from their asylum application to get the green card, a process that shouldn't take more than 3 years... Now I know someone may argue that dreamers and TPS holders waited way longer that to get a relief... that maybe true, and I totally support the new immigration bill that benefits TPS and dreamers, but also remember that those people are not even eligible for asylum (otherwise they would've applied), and to be eligible for asylum and get approved means that you went through much more difficult, stressful, and emotional times than most of the immigrants including TPS holders and dreamers, and what we are asking for here is just to include us with them in terms of citizenship time requirement. So what we should ask for? We can ask to include us in the new bill by either reduce the time needed for citizenship from 4 years (you know the GC for asylees comes dated back 1 year) to 3 years after receiving the GC or adjust the asylees' green card date to be 2 years back instead of 1, just like they increased the EAD validity from 1 year to 2 years.
Please do your best to attend and raise the issue.
Peace to all!
Please do your best to attend and raise the issue.
Peace to all!
