{"id":3572,"date":"2003-10-04T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-04T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/10\/04\/2003-10-04-catholic-nuns-face-deportation-because-of-an-immigration-technicality\/"},"modified":"2003-10-04T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-10-04T12:00:00","slug":"2003-10-04-catholic-nuns-face-deportation-because-of-an-immigration-technicality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/10\/04\/2003-10-04-catholic-nuns-face-deportation-because-of-an-immigration-technicality\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic Nuns Face Deportation Because of an Immigration Technicality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Religion News Service 2003<\/P><P>CLEVELAND, OHIO, September 23, 2003: Many Hindu priests are in America on a &#8220;religious worker&#8221; visa, and the following case report will be of interests to temple trustees overseeing this visa for their priests: Ever since Sisters Mary Cecilia and Mary Catharina Laboure received a rejection notice from the Department of Homeland Security&#8217;s immigration division denying them a renewal of their religious work visas in the U.S.A., the monastery of Poor Clares has been unsettled about the matter. Chris Bentley, a spokesman for the immigration division says, &#8220;The sister&#8217;s latest visa requests were rejected because they didn&#8217;t show they had worked for the same employer for two consecutive years before applying. The requirement existed long before September 11 and must be met before a visa can be issued to a religious worker.&#8221; The sisters were affiliated with Poor Clares before they came to the U.S.A. from Korea one-and-a-half years ago but the application for the visa renewal did not clearly establish the two-year requirement.<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Religion News Service 2003CLEVELAND, OHIO, September 23, 2003: Many Hindu priests are in America on a &#8220;religious worker&#8221; visa, and,&#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-3572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572","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=3572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}