May 22, 2010
Summer
2010 begins! reFORM Monday's last and third legislative action event just finished. Now, the summer will be used to work on
the layout for reFORM's collaborative photo book project with Lenapeeps Art Gallery's artist in residence, Camilo Godoy. The
book will be called ManifestNATION.
We continue to push, through our
client base, for the passage of comprehensive immigration reform. We are in need of more visas since the current yearly quota
just is not enough and the backlog for family and employment-based petitions is causing a wait that is excessively long.
WE APPLAUD THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION's monumental changes
in immigration law and policy. For one, on January 4, 2010, HIV is no longer a medical ground of inadmissibility, ending years
of stigma against those men and women who test positive. For more info, visit: www.uscis.gov.
Under Public Law 111-83, the widow penalty was repealed so that widows or widowers of U.S. citizens can now file
for their self-petition and proceed to adjust their status. Beneficiaries of relative petitions (children) who were
physically present in the U.S. when their petitioner (parent) passed away can also adjust their status if their priority date
is current instead of having to file for and wait for the adjudication of their humanitarian reinstatement application.
January 25, 2010
Thank you for joining us in celebrating the legacy of equality
of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose movement for civil rights for people of color revolutionized how America tied rights
and opportunities to the color of one's skin.
reFORM Mondays, USA is a movement I have started that will push
for comprehensive immigration reform through legislative action (political activism) and empowerment of undocumented participants
and their families (self-help).
This has always been the unique tranformative symbiosis of my practice so this
reFORM movement is in close collaboration with Camilo Godoy, a visual artist, who explores the relationship between our most
private notion of who is the undocumented immigrant and our public willingness to take part and participate in amending, reshaping,
reconstructing, remodeling and reforming the current immigration system in place. (See image to the left.)
The
reFORM events are as follows:
1. DONE! January 16th (Saturday) at 1p.m.- Take Legislative Action event
at Hinonangan Law Office in 704 Grand St., Jersey City, with a focus on Family Unity to commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr.’s legacy of equality;
2. March 1st (Monday) at 5p.m.- Take Legislative Action event at Hinonangan
Law Office in 704 Grand St., Jersey City, with a focus on how immigration reform is great for the economy;
3.
May 10th (Monday) at 5p.m.- Take Legislative Action event at Hinonangan Law Office in 704 Grand St., Jersey City,
with a focus on reconciling immigration with our national security.
