Washington – Congress Extends Religious Worker Visa program
- October 24, 2009 - ו' חשון תש"ע
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Washington – Congress has extended the Religious Worker Visa Program, which helps small Jewish communities, for three more years, According to the JTA.
The visa program makes available up to 5,000 permanent immigrant visas each year for religious workers in a variety of denominations. The program is particularly important to small Jewish communities in remote areas who find it difficult to fill positions and who rely on the visas to bring in rabbis, cantors, kosher butchers, Hebrew school teachers and other religious workers.
The legislation also includes a provision to end the “widow penalty,” so that recently married immigrants whose citizen spouses die before their green-card paperwork is processed will no longer be subject to automatic deportation. It was passed as part of the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Committee Report, which passed the Senate on Tuesday and the House the previous week, and which President Obama is expected to sign it into law.
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