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By changing the rules in mid-process, the new US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Policy Memorandum PM-602-0199 issued on May 21 feels like a bait and switch to many of the estimated 200,000 Filipinos waiting for their green card.
For Josie dela Cruz, a registered nurse working at a convalescent hospital, not only is she exposed to the cruelty of her fate changing in midstream, but her husband whom she petitioned as dependent and her two young children who are born US citizens could also be negatively impacted.
For more than 70 years — by act of Congress in 1952 — she was told that if you come legally, follow the rules, work hard and wait your turn, the American Dream is for you for the taking. Now that dream is turning into a nightmare.
Dela Cruz followed it to the letter. She came on H-1B in 2012 amid the persistent shortages of nurses and healthcare workers in the US. She petitioned her husband as H-4 dependent and is now raising two kids. After working nine years at the same hospital, her employer sponsored her for an EB-3 green card in 2017.
