From: Deden Rukmana
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Subject: Milis
[Permias_LA_Grad] info penting buat WNI pria yg bepergian
keluar
Date:
terlampir adalah kasus yg
jangan sampai terulang lagi
buat kita
semua.
pengalaman saya, selama dua
minggu yl bepergian keluar
US, adalah penting utk aware
thd beberapa hal sbb:
- pilih designated airport,
tidak semua airport bisa
kita pake utk keluar masuk
tsb.
- register pada tempat yg telah
tersedia di designated
airport sebelum kita keluar
ini di
pemotretan dan pengambilan
sidik jari (lagi!) seperti kita alami
sewaktu special registration
lalu. setelah itu paspornya dicap. ini
akan memakan waktu sekitar
10-15 menit, dg catatan,
kalo tidak
ngantri.
demikian sedikit info, mudah2an
ada manfaatnya.
thanks.
Deden.
Physician denied entry over
minor technicality
(
advisory for Muslim
visa-holders working in the United
States, warning that minor
violations of immigrations procedures could
result in denial of re-entry
following trips abroad. That advisory was
issued after a Pakistani
physician working in
denied re-entry at Washington
Dulles International
Airport because he failed to
abide by a little-known
registration
policy.
According to that policy,
anyone who went through the
recently-completed Special
Registration program must provide notice of
departure from and re-entry
into the
"Nonimmigrants who must follow
these special procedures will also have
to use specially designated
ports when they leave the
country and report in person to
an immigration officer
at the port on their departure
date."
SEE:
http://www.bcis.gov/graphics/shared/lawenfor/specialreg/index.htm
http://www.bcis.gov/graphics/shared/lawenfor/specialreg/BLISTOFP.pdf
Relatives of Dr. Shahid
Mahmood, a family practitioner
working in an underserved area
of
more than four years, say he
and his family (including
an American-born child) were
forced to return to
to that country. Mahmood was
denied re-entry despite
the fact that he had been told
by airline personnel
there was no registration
requirement. Immigration
authorities told him to
re-apply for a work visa, a
process that could take
months.
"Preventing re-entry of honest,
hardworking
visa-holders who make every
effort to comply with
complicated regulations is
fundamentally unjust," said
CAIR Legal Advisor Khurrum
Wahid. "If a person can be summarily denied
re-entry into the
airline and lack of guidance
from immigration authorities, we must
examine the due process issues
at play." Wahid added
that Dr. Mahmood's absence will
create a crisis for
patients who do not have access
to other physicians.
Mahmood has in the past been
praised for his work by
his medical colleagues and by
North Carolina General
Assembly Representative Gordon
Allen. Rep. Allen wrote
last year:
"
underserved area for family
practitioners. Person
County and the surrounding
counties are privileged to
have Dr. Mahmood as a member of
the medical community.
He…is known as a kind and
caring physician."
CAIR has received a number of
complaints similar to
that of Dr. Mahmood and is
requesting that anyone
denied re-entry file an
incident report form. Report
forms are available for
download at:
http://www.cair-net.org/ireport/Incident_Report.doc,
or by calling
202-488-8787.
IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUESTED: (As
always, be POLITE and
RESPECTFUL.)
Contact U.S. Rep. David Price
(NC-4) and Rep. Brad
Miller (NC-14) to ask that they
intervene on Dr.
Mahmood's behalf with
immigration authorities. (Dr.
Mahmood lives in Rep. Price's
district and works in
the district covered by Rep.
Miller.)
CONTACT:
The Honorable David
Price
2162
Phone: 202-225-1784 or
919-859-5999
Fax:
202-225-2014
WEB:
http://www.house.gov/price
