Expedite Haitian Family Reunification

Please Sign Petition to Expedite Haitian Family Reunification Before May 1 Deadline!

From the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti

Dear Friends,

We’ve gotten 4,000 signatures on this petition but want 10,000 to send a strong message to the White House that this is something to do now. Sign directly at here after reviewing the petition at (at left below video, with links to the signing page).

The issue:   112,000 beneficiaries of DHS-approved family-based visa petitions are on a wait list of nearly three to eleven years in Haiti. Thousands of Cubans have been paroled since 2007 under the Cuban Family Reunification Parole Program; we’re urging the White House to have DHS create a similar Haitian program or at least begin paroling some of the most vulnerable, e.g. starting with the 15,800 minor children and spouses of legal permanent residents whose wait time in Haiti is nearly three years.

Support includes nearly 100 Congresspersons, the city councils of New York and Philadelphia, ten editorial boards, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, the U.S. Conference of Mayors and many others. See links at under “Haitian Family Reunification Program”. (Please sign online, but more info and paper versions of the petition are available from IJDH Immigration Policy Coordinator Steve Forester at steveforester@aol.com .)

Thanks for considering, signing and circulating this broadly to help expedite Haitian family reunification!

Steven Forester, Immigration Policy Coordinator, 786 877 6999

Create a Haitian Family Reunification Parole Program to help Haiti recover.

Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti www.HaitiJustice.org

KJ