{"id":12429,"date":"2007-06-28T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-28T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2007\/06\/28\/comment-period-closed-on-r-1-visa\/"},"modified":"2007-06-28T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-28T12:00:00","slug":"comment-period-closed-on-r-1-visa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2007\/06\/28\/comment-period-closed-on-r-1-visa\/","title":{"rendered":"Comment Period Closed on R-1 Visa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.regulations.gov\/\">www.regulations.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">WASHINGTON, D.C., June 28, 2007: To view the final collection of comments on the proposed rule changes to the R-1 Religious Worker Visa, go to URL above. Next, in step 1, select &#8220;all documents (open and closed for comment).&#8221; Then in step 4 on the same page, select &#8220;document ID,&#8221; enter &#8220;USCIS-2005-0030&#8221; and push &#8220;submit.&#8221; This will bring up a list of 75 documents. You can download each by clicking on the icon toward the end of its line. There are a number of comments from Hindu organizations and individuals, including the Hindu American Foundation, Saiva Siddhanta Church\/Hinduism Today, BAPS Swaminarayan, VHP of America and the Hindu Collective Initiative of North America. <\/p>\n<p>It is useful for those concerned with the visa to read the Hindu comments. We&#8217;d also recommend the comments of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, United States Catholic Bishops Conference, Holme, Roberts &#038; Owen (representing evangelical Christians), The Church of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons, who use about 10% of all R-1s issued each year) and the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. Many of those commenting consider the most onerous aspect of the new rule, the requirement to petition for the R-1 on Form I-129 in advance, to be beyond the power of the USCIS to implement without additional legislation from Congress.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.regulations.gov WASHINGTON, D.C., June 28, 2007: To view the final collection of comments on the proposed rule changes to the,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}