Immigrant supporters applauded the Biden Administration's decision late Thursday to extend Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to Ukrainians, which will shield them from deportation and provide them with a work permit. According to the American Immigration Council, approximately 34,000 Ukrainians will likely gain.
"We will continue to offer our support and safety to Ukrainian nationals in the United States in these unprecedented circumstances," Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas stated in a public statement. However, immigrant groups have pointed out that the announcement highlights significant faults of TPS. TPS, like so many other aspects of the United States' dysfunctional immigration system, began as a band-aid in the 1990s to protect those who couldn't be returned home because of a "exceptional" circumstance, such as war or an environmental calamity. It does not provide a road to citizenship, nor does it give beneficiaries access to any government benefits. The designation is only valid for 18 months and can be renewed at the discretion of the Department of Homeland Security or Congress. TPS recipients are frequently subjected to erratic political winds. TPS designations for El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua, and Sudan were cancelled or sought to be ended by the Trump administration in 2017, putting thousands of immigrants at danger of deportation. TPS was reinstated by President Biden's administration for those nationalities who had lost it during the Trump administration.
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Holders of Australian visa permits who have been fully vaccinated will be able to enter the country from December 1 without being subject to travel exemptions, the Australian authorities have announced. However, in order to enter the country, visa holders have to be fully vaccinated with one of the vaccines approved for use by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA).
In other words, to be eligible for entering the country, the traveler has to prove he/she received both shots of the following vaccines, with a 14-day pause in between:
Rules for Vaccinated & Unvaccinated Travellers Entering NSW. Vaccinated travelers entering NSW have to take a COVID-19 within the first day of arrival, in addition to quarantine and another test taken on the seventh day of arrival. Read more here: https://visaguide.world/news/australia/fully-vaccinated-visa-holders-permitted-to-enter-australia-from-december-1/ A proposal in President Biden’s social spending bill would make hundreds of thousands of unused green cards available for immigrants. But it faces an uncertain future under Senate rules.
As Democrats scramble to ensure that protections for millions of undocumented immigrants are included in a sprawling social-safety net package, Dr. Pranav Singh is focused on a lesser-known plan to address the green card backlog that pushed him to leave his family and job in Iowa. After nearly a decade of treating patients with respiratory problems, Dr. Singh could no longer bear the uncertainty of living in the United States on a visa that could be revoked if there were a change in his employment. “I’ve got 15 years in the U.S. and I’m still considered a visa holder or alien,” said Dr. Singh, who returned to India last summer after years of bureaucratic languishing. “How long can you stand that level of abuse?” When President Biden unveiled an outline of the latest version of the social policy and climate bill on Thursday, it included an immigration provision that could help Dr. Singh and millions of other families and foreign workers, but only if it can make its way past the Senate parliamentarian, who enforces strict rules about what can be included in the package. |