Crocker calls for measures to facilitate the migration of Iraqis to the United States
Crocker calls for measures to facilitate the migration of Iraqis to the United States
31/07/2014 16:32
Crocker was considered that there is a moral responsibility to stand by those who helped the United States in Iraq
BAGHDAD / obelisk: called the former U.S. ambassador in Afghanistan and Iraq, Ryan Crocker, to open the door of the Special Immigrant Visa program for Iraqis and Ahoudoa priority immigration to the United States.
It is intended crore “thousands of courageous citizens who have supported us in our efforts, risking themselves and their families, many have been killed because they were standing next to us.”
Crocker said in a report published service “Washington Posen and Bloomberg News Service,” and I followed “obelisk” that “the immigration program should be a priority in Baghdad and Washington, must also provide staff and resources to speed versions. This is a question of life or death., And where he can not finish backlog of applications by September, whatever the effort, it should be on Congress to extend the program for Iraqis, too. ”
He said Crocker that “there is a moral responsibility to stand by those who helped us in Iraq,” saying “those who need us to have the opportunity to live in peace and security in the United States, a country that has provided their services amid great risk. Issue is a source of deep concern for me.”
Ryan Crocker became ambassador to Iraq in 2007, for two years, and is a leading academic and diplomatic affairs in the Arab region due to his deep knowledge of the history and culture of this region, where he spent a long period of years old, in addition to his mastery of languages.
The Congress has issued a Special Immigrant Visa program is allowed to enter about 17 thousand Iraqi refugees to the United States.
According to Crocker, the program “SIV” suffers from bureaucratic problems and delays, so it is U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to conduct a comprehensive review of the process, and the results were dramatic, since the month of October, he received about 5,000 Afghan visas, compared to nearly 1,600 in the previous year.
The sad thing that the Special Immigrant Visa program for Iraqis was proceeding in the opposite direction. Despite the issuance of 15 thousand visa in total, the flow slowed to a crawl.
According to American journalist George Packer in the magazine “The New Yorker” that 507 Iraqis arrived in the United States through the Special Immigrant Visa program in October.
In June, the number did not exceed 53., And there are more than 1,600 Iraqis in wait, while the program will expire in September.
Packer said that “despite the fact that Congress has ordered the processing of applications for immigration visas in nine months, the waiting period may be more than double this period.”
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