USCIS regional media manager Marie Therese Sebrechts said, “Employers should NOT abandon their I-129CW filing for CW workers eligible for the new parole.”
For Sebrechts, it is important that everyone recognizes the fact that the parole does not have the continuing employment provision available with the CW-1 if filed by Nov. 28.
“Without the CW filing, the worker must stop working on November 27, 2011 and would not be able to work with parole until an Employment Authorization Document (EAD) is granted and that could be several months,” she said.
She advised that employers should continue to file for those CW-1 workers if they want their employees to be able to continue working long after Nov. 27.
On Thanksgiving, parents of U.S. citizens, immediate relatives, and “stateless” citizens welcomed the decision by USCIS to grant them parole on a case-by-case basis that would allow them to maintain legal status in the CNMI until December 31, 2012.
H.R. 1466 author Congressman Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan applauded the decision of USCIS to provide “humanitarian parole” to the persons in the four groups that his bill is seeking admission into the CNMI as immigrants.
USCIS urged these potential parolees to wait until USCIS has issued the guidelines before they apply for parole.
In the meantime, the agency advises that these individuals could remain after the expiration of umbrella permits as long as they are legally present and living in the CNMI on Nov. 27, 2011.
USCIS identifies the eligible individuals for grant of parole as (1) an immediate relative of a U.S. citizen: a legal spouse, unmarried child under 21 years old or parent (regardless of the age of the U.S. citizen child) who is legally present and resides in the CNMI as of Nov. 27, 2011; (2) a foreign national born in what is now the CNMI between Jan. 1, 1974 and Jan. 9, 1978 or otherwise referred to as “stateless”; (3) an unmarried child (under 21 years old) or legal spouse of the “stateless” individuals.
For more information, log on to www.uscis.gov.
