Rabby Syed, Saipan City Taxi Association president and United Workers Movement, NMI vice president said he already asked the help of House Floor Leader Joseph N. Camacho, R-Saipan.
“We just want to continue our business here so we can help the economy grow,” Syed said, adding that taxis are partners of the tourism industry.
Syed said all members of his group are IR and have been working on Saipan for at least 10 years.
He said they did not try to change their immigration status before “because we just work here and we love the CNMI.”
Irene N. Tantiado, United Workers Movement, NMI president, is inviting all IRs of U.S. citizens, spouses, parents and qualified children and FAS citizens to attend a meeting on Sunday at American Memorial Park at 2 p.m.
The meeting is organized by the United Workers Movement, NMI and Mailman & Kara, LLC.
Tantiado said the meeting will discuss the options for the FAS immediate relatives.
Under the federalization law, these IRs will be out of status once the transition period starts on June 1, 2009.
She suggested that these IRs file a petition wit the FAS governments to waive the residency requirement so they may continue to leave and work in the CNMI while their FAS status is being process.
There are at least 300 FAS immediate relatives in the CNMI.
The FAS are Palau, the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia — Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei and Yap.
For more information, call Irene Tantiado at 285-7717, Rabby Syed at 285 3306 or e-mail [email protected].
