The rate of TB among detainees is on a higher scale when compared with the general US population. Completion of TB treatment requires at least six months and can prevent relapse and the emergence of drug resistance. Health care authorities have reported an alarming rise in the trend of immigrants who have contracted the disease not completing the treatment – this can usually cause a relapse of the infectious ailment. Immigrant patients have been seen to start the treatment earnestly only to discontinue it midway.
The Immigration Medical examination is mandatory for immigrants in the US – they must compulsorily go in for chest X-rays to rule out this disease altogether.
Staying aligned with American fundamental values,Jeffries and Democratic lawmakers have referred a bill to the House Committee for thousands of undocumented minors who are crossing the US borders – to provide them with immigration lawyers, as they can’t handle the deportation proceedings on their own.
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that the medical examination required for green card holders or anyone applying for permanent citizenship must submit Form I-693 to USCIS within one year of their appearing for the Immigration Medical examination.
Yet another big occasion marks the celebrations of Independence Day in the United States this year! To make it more unique, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will naturalize nearly 9,000 new American citizens across the country. Acting director Lori Scialabba said, on the commemoration of the event– “It is our delight to celebrate the fulfillment of the entire green card holder community, who is going to be naturalized on the nation’s 238th birthday.”
The ceremonies are slated to take place at public libraries and historical places like Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello in Charlottesville, Virginia; George Washington’s Mount Vernon in Mount Vernon, Virginia; Mount Rushmore National Memorial in Keystone, the USS Missouri in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; South Dakota; California; the Battleship New Jersey in Camden, New Jersey; Saratoga National Historical Park in Stillwater, New York and the USS Midway in San Diego. Including one in which President Obama will hold in the White House for the service members who are still to be citizens of America.
As rightly said by Obama, immigrants have become a part of the nation, they are prepared to fight and die for America, and they are ready to take up any kind of job as they help us in all possible fields, whether they are highly skilled workers or blue collared workers.
America has always welcomed people from across the world, so it will prove to be great achievement of all the green card holders to get naturalized on this day, in a great nation like the US. After spending a lot of time here and putting in all immense hard work and efforts thousands of immigrants are excited to take the Oath of Allegiance and become proud citizens of the country this July 4th, 2014.
