When she received Grey’s response, Irene N. Tantiado, then president of the United Workers Movement, NMI, had already left Saipan but she asked the group’s acting president, Rabby Syed, to meet with the Immigration official.
New CNMI immigration rules and regulations took effect on Jan. 1, but Tantiado said will continue to ask Immigration to reconsider.
Syed said he has already informed Immigration about the intention of their group to meet with Grey.
The meeting is yet to be scheduled.
Syed is requesting all IR’s of FAS citizens to attend a meeting on Friday at Winchell’s in Garapan at 6 p.m. so they can discuss their request to the Immigration.
The IRs of the FAS citizens in Saipan want to be considered a special class of non-immigrants as defined by the U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act, Tantiado said.
She said the local Immigration has yet to announce if the request of the IR’s for a two-year extension has been granted.
The United Workers Movement has been asking Immigration to address the issue of these IR’s before the federal government takes over local Immigration in June next year.
The FAS are Palau, the Marshall Islands the Federated States of Micronesia — Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei and Yap.
Under federal immigration law, the FAS IRs will no longer be considered CNMI “residents.”
