Immigration Family Reunification 2008

MHRO HELPS FAMILIES TO RE-UNITE

MHRO continues to work on behalf of Montagnard beneficiaries in Vietnam and those who have fled to the UNHCR site in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. MHRO has assisted a total of: 216 petitioners with I-730 petitions, 259 applicants with Green Cards( I-485) petitions, 90 petitions for citizenship (N-400), and 44 petitioners to apply for the I-130 . As a result, 170 Montagnards have received their green cards and 131 families with 510 children have arrived in the United States to reunite with their loved ones!

Immigration petitions are often challenging because of the multiple documents required by USCIS/DHS for legal emigration from Vietnam and the difficult situation that most Montagnards experience in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. Local Communist government authorities often make it very hard on Montagnard family members. In some situations, beneficiaries are harassed, threatened, imprisoned or persecuted in other ways just because they have a loved one in the U.S. MHRO works closely with the U.S. Consulate in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) Vietnam in making every possible effort to bring eligible family members to the U.S.

We won’t give up on families! In a few situations, it took over 10 years for MHRO to re-unite husbands and wives, children and parents. In these hard times, we always believed that with faith, hope, and perseverance, justice would prevail.