Nearly 180 days after the enactment of H.R. 559—the legislation that gave CNMI residency to over 1,000 eligible parolees—there’s still no regulation governing the new law that would allow those affected to start applying for CNMI residency. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration...

After nearly eight months at the committee level, Delegate Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan’s (Ind-MP) H.R. 560 was pushed out of the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources yesterday with no opposition, setting the stage for the bill to be taken up on the floor of the U.S. House of...

Delegate Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan (Ind-MP) expects to see action at the committee level on his bill that proposes to grant permanent resident status to foreign workers who have been in the CNMI for a long time. “Action is scheduled in the House Natural Resources Committee on...

Even though U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has yet to publish guidelines for recently-enacted law that allows parolees to apply for CNMI-only resident status, one parolee is not that worried. “I am not worried because that is the law. If they [USCIS] can’t come up with...