IRVING PARK — An Asian American and immigrant rights nonprofit is opening its doors to teach neighbors traditional Korean folk drumming that organizers often use in their activism.
Hana Center, 4300 N. California Ave. in Irving Park, provides services to address needs related to citizenship and immigration, housing and more.
The film which was inspired by Kumar’s conversation with a child bride in Afghanistan uncovers a new perspective on the topic in a country where very young girls are sold to be married.
On Tuesday, July 12, 2022, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced the launch of the first-ever citizenship ambassador initiative. Through this new initiative, USCIS will partner with community leaders who will promote citizenship through their own immigrant experience.
“As bad as things were during the auto crisis, we didn’t have these mass assaults on Asians all over the country. It’s worse now. It’s absolutely worse now than it was 40 years ago.”
These remarks were made by James W. Shimoura, a Detroit-based Japanese American lawyer who had volunteered in the Chin case in the 1980s. Chin was a Chinese American living near Detroit and was clubbed to death with a baseball bat by some white autoworkers in 1982.
The 18-month extension of TPS for Venezuela will be effective from September 10, 2022, through March 10, 2024. Only beneficiaries under Venezuela’s existing designation, and who were already residing in the United States as of March 8, 2021, are eligible to re-register for TPS under this extension.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has extended the time beneficiaries paroled into the United States under Uniting for Ukraine have to attest to their compliance with the medical screening for tuberculosis and additional vaccinations, if required.
USCIS is revising Form I-526, Immigrant Petition by Alien Entrepreneur, to accommodate the EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act of 2022, which made significant changes to both the filing and eligibility requirements for investors under the EB-5 program.
In a speech addressing the refugee crisis in the UK, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said anyone who has entered the United Kingdom irregularly since the start of the year “may” be relocated to Rwanda a country in central-east Africa.
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Despite the high number of deaths in older adults from the Omicron surge, a significant number remain “un-boosted” — only 29.5% of people 65 and older are “fully boosted” with both first and second booster shots.