{"id":573,"date":"2004-10-20T12:50:30","date_gmt":"2004-10-20T17:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=573"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:24","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:24","slug":"dangers_of_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/20\/dangers_of_the\/","title":{"rendered":"Dangers of the H4-B"},"content":{"rendered":"

India NewEngland sheds light<\/a> upon an issue that links a partticular immigration status to domestic abuse:<\/p>\n\n

\nThe study’s author, Boston University School of Public Health Professor Anita Raj, says current U.S. immigration policies preventing women on spousal visas from working and self-petitioning for change of status may constitute human-rights violations.\n
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\n“H-4B visa holders are legal residents of the U.S. who are being denied the right to work and the right to self-petition for legal permanent residency in the U.S.,” Raj said. “These policies violate basic human rights and must be changed for the U.S. to demonstrate a commitment to eliminating policies that increase women’s risk for violence.”\n
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\nThe study, released this month, determines that abusive husbands use immigration-related abuse – threats of deportation, refusal to file for change of visa status and withholding of immigration paperwork – to exert extraordinary personal and economic control over their partners.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

There seems to be so many immigration loopholes that can be exploited in unconcionable ways. Since this one affects the South Asian community, I thought I’d point it out.<\/p>\n\n

\n“I don’t want to imply that if you’re on an H-4 visa, you’re going to be abused,” Raj said. “If you are in an abusive relationship and you are on an H-4 visa, you are at so much greater vulnernability for abuse.”\n
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\nLeslye Orloff, director of the Immigrant Woman Program at the women’s right organization Legal Momentum, is leading a national effort to secure legal protections for immigrant victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and human trafficking. \n
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\nOrloff said Raj’s research proves for the first time that it’s not just U.S. citizens or permanent residents who use control over a partner’s immigration status to lock their victims in abusive marriages.\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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