Dear Editor:
I am an immigrant from Romania, and I have become a
permanent resident only a year ago, after 9 years of
struggle and extreme financial and emotional
hardships. After having been in the US for over 10 years, I find
that even as a permanent resident I cannot bring my
mother, father, sister, brother to the US,
all because of a law that allows only 'immediate
relatives' of US Citizens that privilege and not to
permanent residents. Permanent residents are allowed
to bring their spouses and children, on a visa too,
it's not like it's an automatic thing.
I find this law inhumane, because it separates
families for many, many years, in a good number of
cases. How can such a law exist in the US? I was only given as a response,"America does not want too many immigrants."
What I am thinking is that this country allows a
variety of immigrants to come to the US, for school, work, business, yet the most
fundamental category of all immigrants, family, is harshly overlooked, or maybe purposely crippled.
How can Congress not think of what it means to be away
from your family for so many years, and how do they expect
immigrants to make a choice to live apart, when it is
well known that most immigrants come to the US to be
able to better provide for families, and to have a
more prosperous life, among that family?
It is shameful, but I suppose that Congress does not
have to worry about problems that do not affect it
directly. After all, how many congressmen/women are
immigrants who've been separated from their loved ones for years?
Julie C.
Legal Assistant
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