On July 14, up to 1,000 high-skilled, legal immigrants gathered in San Jose, California to express their outrage at the U.S. government's failure to deliver on a promise to hasten the processing of their green-card applications. On June 12, the U.S. State Dept. issued a bulletin promising it was ready to move hundreds of thousands of green-card applicants into the final phase of processing, known as the Adjustment of Status. Visa workers rushed to complete their Adjustment of Status applications for July 2, the first day they could be submitted. Applicants scrambled to gather signatures, birth certificates, and immunization records, many taking off work and rearranging travel plans. But at the beginning of July, the State Dept. retracted the bulletin, explaining the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services had already fulfilled its quota and would not accept further applications.More on this here!
Legal immigrants' non-violent protest in San Jose!
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