As an affected and a longtime CW worker here in the island, I am confused on the current state of fellow CWs in the island. There are a lot of inconsistencies under the current CW regulations that affect a lot of longtime foreign workers. The CW cap and the 10-days exit if CW renewal is rejected, among others, are very confusing. The 902 talks gave us a very, very slim hope and now here comes the relief by way of \u201cdeferred action\u201d which is on a case-by-case basis that also means a 50\/50 chance of approval. <\/p>\n
Back in 2011, I wrote a letter addressing this current predicament and I even publicly opposed this through a lawsuit together with fellow CWs (seven of us) to stop the implementation because it will eventually affect CW holders.<\/p>\n
CWs are now experiencing hardship, emotional distress, and worse separation of families. Back then I knew hardship, emotional distress, and family separation will occur. I guess, the only solution is for USCIS to extend \u201cpermanized CW visa\u201d a family-based visa similar or to H-visas to all long-term foreign workers if they don\u2019t like CNMI permanent residency.<\/p>\n
Carlito J. Marquez<\/strong> As an affected and a longtime CW worker here in the island, I am confused…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[118,259,187,119],"class_list":["post-235543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor","tag-cw","tag-lawsuit","tag-lower-base","tag-uscis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nLower Base<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"