Bipartisan Group of Lawmakers Encourages President Obama to Extend Special Immigrant Visa Program

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Posted: 05 March 2013 02:44 PM

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Today, a bipartisan group of 19 members of the United States House of Representatives, including 6 veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, sent a letter to President Obama urging him to extend the Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) programs, authorized in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 and the Afghan Allies Protection Act of 2009, which expire at the end of this Fiscal Year and in Fiscal Year 2014 respectively, and address discrepancies over program eligibility, calling the extension and reform of these programs “a matter of national security.”