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Hearts@Home Campaign

Family unity is a core American value and key goal of the U.S. immigration system. Yet 4 million people wait abroad for years in green card backlogs created by an outdated system. Hundreds of thousands of family members in the U.S. are also at risk of deportation because these backlogs affect their status. As presidential election season approaches, the Biden administration can take steps NOW to reunite families and keep them together by:

  • Reissuing green cards that went unused in the past several years

  • Providing parole for people in family backlogs

  • Expanding family reunification parole to all countries

Join the Hearts@Home Campaign!

Help us ensure the Biden administration does right by immigrant families. Actions will include coordinated call-in and postcard campaigns, sign-on letters, op-ed placement, and an in-person visit to Washington to press the case for action now.

Resources:

Check out our one-pager in English and Spanish.

Take a look at our sign-on letter for faith leaders.

Sign our online petition!

Take our postcard to get signatures at tabling events.

Schedule

Action

Dates

Link

Policy meetings with Congress/Biden administration champions

Ongoing

Social media storm & action alert

Organization recruiting

Lawyers sign-on

Op-eds/letters to the editor campaign

Postcard campaign

In-person action

September

Sept 28

Nov 27-Dec 1

October

Call-in week

Dec 11 (Deadline)

December 15

Reintroducing the Reuniting Families Act

The Reuniting Families Act, last introduced in September 2023, contains common sense solutions to existing processes to ease the backlogs in a family immigration system that has seen no reforms in more than 30 years.

Click here (or here for Korean) to learn more about this important legislation that can help the almost 4 million people caught in the backlogs reunite with their families, some who have waited more than a decade to see them, and protect hundreds of thousands of community members in the U.S. from deportation. Among other things, the Reuniting Families Act:

  • More than doubles number of family preference visas available 

  • Raises the per-country visa limit, so the wait is not so long for countries with high levels of immigration

  • Sets an absolute time limit, so no immigrant has to wait more than 10 years for a visa if they have an approved application

As part of a Beyond the Bureaucracy Week of Action in June, Value Our Families presented a webinar exploring arbitrary barriers in the family immigration system that keep some families separated for decades.

You can watch the full webinar on Facebook.

Share these resource on the Reuniting Families Act in your meetings with members of the House and Senate.

#Vote4Families

This election season, our values are on the line. The principle of family unity has long been a hallmark of the U.S. immigration system and a value that most of us hold dear. Recognizing this, Congress created an immigration system that allows U.S. citizens and permanent residents to sponsor family members to join them here. Unfortunately, some candidates who often tout their support for families plan to severely restrict or eliminate our family immigration system.

Use this toolkit to integrate the issue of family immigration into your voter and civic engagement work! It includes state fact sheets, messaging resources, and much more.

To learn more, watch the webinar recording: “What is at Stake for Families this Election? Family Immigration and the 2024 Presidential Election,” recorded in May 2024.