To: President Donald Trump, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate
Let's Keep Families Together!
Separating families accomplishes nothing but to create an undue hardship on children and spouses, shredding the fabric of all families. Let’s do away with this archaic law and let us come together to refresh our morals.
Why is this important?
Non-citizens married to U.S. citizens incur a penalty of 10 years of separation from their families if they wish to rectify their citizenship status. The chances that we all personally know many families that would have to undergo this magnificent strain is great. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) today posted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) in the Federal Register that would reduce the time U.S. citizens are separated from their spouses, children, and parents who must obtain an immigrant visa abroad to become lawful permanent residents of the United States. This rule would allow certain immediate relatives of U.S. citizens to apply for a provisional waiver of the unlawful presence ground of inadmissibility while still in the United States if they can demonstrate that being separated from their U.S. citizen spouse or parent would cause that U.S. citizen relative extreme hardship.