family reunification

Protestors participate March 6 in the "Reunite Our Families Now!'' rally in Los Angeles to protest continued deportations and demand that children be reunited with their families.

Biden's Task Force Has Reunited 36 Migrant Families — With Hundreds To Go

2:45pm June 08, 2021

by Joel Rose

Advocates hoped for more, but the administration says this is the pace it wants as it scales up the effort. "We chose intentionally to start slow so that we can go fast later," an official says.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced on Tuesday the agency is seeking to close all of its foreign field offices around the world, a move introduced by Director L. Francis Cissna.

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Trump Administration Seeks To Close International Immigration Offices

10:32pm March 12, 2019

by Vanessa Romo

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is in "preliminary discussions" to shutter 23 field offices around the world to save millions. Critics say it will exacerbate a processing bottleneck.

Ahn Seung-choon was 14 when her 17-year-old brother was taken away from the family home in Pyeongchang. "After that day, we didn't hear anything about him," Ahn says.

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South Koreans Prepare For Rare Family Reunions With Long-Lost Relatives In The North

7:26am August 19, 2018

With tensions easing between North and South Korea, the two sides are reviving cross-border reunions that began in 1985. On Monday, 93 South Koreans will board buses to visit relatives in the North.

Women and children walk to a bus in McAllen, Texas. People released from immigration detention centers are often dropped off at the McAllen bus station in the Rio Grande Valley.

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Government Says It's On Track To Reunite Migrant Parents And Children By Deadline

9:09pm July 26, 2018

by Vanessa Romo

As of Thursday morning officials reported 711 children had yet to be reunited with their parents or an approved sponsor. Some 1,800 children have been handed over to their parents or sponsors.

A Brazilian mother, who asked to be identified only as W.R., was reunified with with her 9-year-old son A.R. in Boston on July 16.

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Government Unable To Track Hundreds Of Parents It Separated From Their Children

11:24pm July 24, 2018

by Vanessa Romo

Officials said 1,012 parents and children separated at the border have already been reunited. But up to 463 parents may have been deported or have voluntarily left without their children.