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Keeping Families Together (KFT) is a United States immigration policy for certain noncitizen spouses and noncitizen stepchildren of American citizens to request parole in place. It was announced by U.S. President Joe Biden through executive order on 18 June 2024 and implemented on 19 August 2024.
Keeping Families Together would have allowed an estimated 500,000 noncitizen spouses and 50,000 noncitizen stepchildren of U.S. citizens to remain together with their families in the United States ...
A Biden administration program that would ease the pathway to legal status for about half a million undocumented spouses and stepchildren of U.S. citizens is on pause until Sept. 23 due to a ...
On 19 August 2024, President Biden announced a new program called Keeping Families Together specifically created for legally married spouses of U.S. citizens without legal status in the country. Referring the older law reserved for military personnels since 1952, the law was expanded to civilian spouses of U.S. citizens married before 17 June 2024.
A federal judge in Texas ordered a pause Monday on a new policy from the Biden administration that would make it easier for Americans’ spouses and children who lack necessary documentation to ...
Keeping Families Together was launched in 2007 with a $700,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to CSH. [4] RWJF had been tracking several high-profile child welfare cases in the news, which revealed that children had died from abuse and neglect while living with families who experienced homelessness, behavioral health problems and involvement in the child welfare system.
According to Chen, the organization’s listserv for lawyers interested in the Keeping Families Together program “blew up” after the judge’s decision late Monday with questions about what ...
The Legal Immigration Family Equity Act of 2000, also known as the LIFE Act and as the Legal Immigration and Family Equity Act, along with its Amendments, made some changes to laws surrounding immigration for family members of United States citizens and Lawful Permanent Residents, as well as people eligible for employment-based immigrant visas, in the direction of making it easier for family ...