Unexpected changes to visas could impact AR priests

In a lawsuit filed Aug. 16 against the State Department, the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, ...

Visa Change Could Lead to Priest Shortage in U.S. - Catholic Herald

Foreign-born priests have a five-year religious worker's visa. For many years before 2023, it did not take long for them to convert that visa to ...

More than 15 foreign priests could be forced to leave archdiocese ...

Unless a recent change in U.S. visa law is reversed, more than 15 priests from other countries who now serve in the Archdiocese of Baltimore ...

'It's like losing a family member:' Change to visa program could ...

'It's like losing a family member:' Change to visa program could cause priest shortage among Archdiocese · facebook · twitter · email.

OSV News on X: "Unexpected changes in the federal government's ...

Unexpected changes in the federal government's allocation of EB-4 visas could negatively impact six priests from other countries serving the ...

Bishops hopeful priests won't face possible deportation - Aleteia

Possible unilateral action from Biden Administration might resolve crisis of "religious workers visas ... A recent change of interpretation of ...

Diocese sues immigration agencies over rule change that could ...

Different employment visas and green cards are far more laborious and expensive to apply for, and many clergy don't qualify. For instance, those ...

Change to Religious Worker Visa Means Fewer Priests

Recent changes to immigration law will make it difficult for foreign-born priests to serve in the United States, says Catholic bishops' migration committee ...

Visa Rule Change Upends Placements for Foreign-Born Priests

The unprecedented flood of undocumented immigrants has resulted in unanticipated restrictions on the availability of visas for religious workers ...

The Church's 'other' immigration problem - The Pillar

Volpe said that there are some options that would allow some priests to transition to different kinds of temporary visas while they wait. But ...

Visa Changes Threaten Ministries of International Priests in Baltimore

More than 15 priests serving in the Archdiocese of Baltimore may face deportation if a recent change in US visa law remains in effect.

New Jersey Catholics sue Biden administration over clergy visas

The policy changes, announced in March 2023, added certain categories of child visa applications from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador to the ...

NJ diocese, priests sue federal government over religious worker ...

At issue is what the diocese's legal counsel described in an Aug. 16 statement as an unlawful and unconstitutional alteration of how visa ...

Explainer on April 2023 Change Impacting Special Immigrant ...

One indirect impact of this change is that many more religious workers on a nonimmigrant religious worker (R-1) visa, who might otherwise have ...

A green card processing change means US could lose thousands of ...

But it all may end soon. A sudden procedural change in how the federal government processes green cards for foreign-born religious workers, ...

Green card: Processing change is affecting religious workers

But it all may end soon. A sudden procedural change in how the federal government processes green cards for foreign-born religious workers, ...

Immigration backlog could affect 13 priests in Arkansas

Due to changes and delays in the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, priests from dioceses outside the United States with ...

Immigrant priests, New Jersey diocese sue U.S. State Department ...

The rule change will force the clergymen to “either violate the terms of their nonimmigrant visa or face imminent and abrupt departure from ...

Catholic diocese sues US over foreign-born priests' expiring visas

For more than a year, religious organizations have lobbied Congress and the Biden administration to fix a sudden procedural change in how ...

Milwaukee archbishop sounds alarm on visa change that could ...

TLDR: because of a recategorization in the immigration system, a backlog has been created that will make it practically impossible for many ...