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发帖数: 10034 | 1 没看明白，按文章说这么牛的两口子直接eb1a了啊。
Two prominent Houston doctors facing removal by immigration officials to
their native India have been granted a temporary, 90-day reprieve while they
try to sort the paper-work that will allow them to continue living and
working legally in the United States.
The married couple are both neurologists and faced removal Thursday after
immigration officials refused at the last minute to extend their temporary
permission to stay in the U.S., potentially jeopardizing the care of dozens
of patients who have specialized surgeries scheduled with the two doctors in
coming weeks.
It's the latest example of the government taking an unusually hard line on
immigration and declining to consider cases on an individual basis.
"I have 50 patients today and 40 patients tomorrow," said Dr. Pankaj Satija,
a neurologist who helped found the Pain and Headache Centers of Texas. "I'm
just concerned they'll be left in a lurch. They could land up in the
emergency room."
The couple has been here legally for more than a decade after coming here
from India to do research and complete their medical residencies. The
Houston Methodist Hospital System sponsored Satija for his green card around
2008 and the Labor Department certified that no Americans could perform his
job in 2010.
But because of rules limiting how many immigrants can actually receive
permanent residency each year and a tremendous backlog in the process, the
couple was provided a provisional status until their green cards become
available. The category for India is currently so behind that only
immigrants who applied for the labor certification before June 2008 are
receiving their green cards.
Satija and his wife, Dr. Monika Ummat, who is also a neurologist
specializing in epilepsy at Texas Children's Hospital, renewed their
temporary work authorizations and their travel documents every two years as
required. They bought a house in West University Place and had two children,
Ralph, who is 7, and 4-year-old Zooey.
The problem began last year when for some reason their travel document was
issued for only one year, unlike the typical period of two years like their
employment authorization.
Further confusing the issue was that Customs and Border Protection officials
stamped their travel document saying that it expired in June this year,
when in fact U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services noted that their
document actually expired in June 2016.
The surgeons did not notice the discrepancy. They had an unusually busy year
and were not planning international travel. Then last October, Satija's
brother called from Delhi and said that their father was extremely ill and
had been admitted to intensive care. The family needed to go right away.
They immediately bought plane tickets and packed their bags. Upon returning
to the United States about a week later, a Customs and Border Protection
official at the airport noted the discrepancy on their travel document and
that in fact it had already expired four months previously.
"The officer looked at it and said it's a common mistake, that it was no big
deal," Satija said.
They were allowed in through a program known as deferred inspection, which
allows certain travelers without the correct paperwork to enter the country
so that they can fix the error. | R**********9
发帖数: 1487 | 2 这个是政府把paperwork弄错了
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【在 d****n 的大作中提到】
: 没看明白，按文章说这么牛的两口子直接eb1a了啊。
: Two prominent Houston doctors facing removal by immigration officials to
: their native India have been granted a temporary, 90-day reprieve while they
: try to sort the paper-work that will allow them to continue living and
: working legally in the United States.
: The married couple are both neurologists and faced removal Thursday after
: immigration officials refused at the last minute to extend their temporary
: permission to stay in the U.S., potentially jeopardizing the care of dozens
: of patients who have specialized surgeries scheduled with the two doctors in
: coming weeks.
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发帖数: 2770 | | M*******c
发帖数: 4371 | 4 这是看人还是看猪？50个病人一天，10分钟看一个。这种医生快滚！ |
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