Raskin, Jayapal Oppose Coverage Including Crimson Tape to Visa Course of

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Representatives Jamie Raskin (MD-08), Ranking Member of the Judiciary Committee, and Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Immigration, Integrity, Security, and Enforcement, are submitting formal opposition to a brand new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) rule that will add additional bureaucratic hurdles to visa processing for college kids, change guests, and media personnel. 

“DHS’s proposal to constrain the timeframe of admission for students, exchange visitors, and members of the media to a fixed period of time is the latest in a series of unwarranted policy changes that have undermined our role as a leader in international education, and harmed universities, businesses, and U.S. students that depend on foreign student enrollment,” wrote the Members. “We cannot condone the erosion of our platforms of learning, culture, and expression—particularly when there is no basis to do so.”

For many years, DHS’s process for short-term admission of international college students, change guests, and media representatives has been executed as “duration of status” – permitting people to be admitted, after vetting, for a time frame that complies with the phrases and circumstances of their short-term visas. For occasion, a visa for a international scholar would match the length of the college dates at their college, making certain that college students can end their levels. DHS is proposing a rule to vary these visas to be on an arbitrary timeline.

This change would create confusion and pressure on guests to this nation, deterring the most effective and brightest from selecting to check at American universities and diminishing our capacity to compete on the worldwide stage. It would additionally impose vital burdens on U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), an company that already has a backlog of 11.3 million circumstances. 

The full textual content of the letter could be learn here.

The letter was additionally signed by Yassamin Ansari (AZ-03), Becca Balint (VT-AL), Donald S. Beyer, Jr. (VA-08), André Carson (IN-07), Greg Casar (TX-35), Judy Chu (CA-28), J. Luis Correa (CA-46), Danny Okay. Davis (IL-07), Diana DeGette (CO-01), Debbie Dingell (MI-06), Lloyd Doggett (TX-37), Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07), Jesús “Chuy” García (IL-04), Sylvia Garcia (TX-29), Dan Goldman (NY-10), Henry C. “Hank” Johnson, Jr. (GA-04), Raja Krishnamoorthi (IL-08), Summer Lee (PA-12), Ted Lieu (CA-36), Stephen F. Lynch (MA-08), James P. McGovern (MA-02), Jerrold Nadler (NY-12), Eleanor Holmes Norton (DC-AL), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14), Delia Ramirez (IL-03), Deborah Ross (NC-02), Jan Schakowsky (IL-09), Hillary Scholten (MI-03), Lateefah Simon (CA-12), Shri Thanedar (MI-13), Mike Thompson (CA-04), and Rashida Tlaib (MI-12).