{"id":274980,"date":"2020-11-11T05:08:37","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T10:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=274980"},"modified":"2020-11-11T05:08:37","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T10:08:37","slug":"changes-under-biden-admin-might-extend-stay-of-350k-pinoys-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/11\/11\/changes-under-biden-admin-might-extend-stay-of-350k-pinoys-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes under Biden admin might extend stay of 350K Pinoys in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_148363\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-148363\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/flag-1291945_960_720.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-148363\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/flag-1291945_960_720.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/flag-1291945_960_720.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/flag-1291945_960_720-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/flag-1291945_960_720-768x538.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-148363\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In a Laging Handa briefing, Philippine Ambassador to US Jose Manuel Romualdez on Wednesday said there are around 350,000 pending cases of deportation among Filipinos in the US, a number of which is now on appeal at deportation courts. (Pixabay Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The stay of some 350,000 Filipinos facing deportation in the United States might be extended amid the expected immigration policy changes under the administration of US President-elect Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>In a Laging Handa briefing, Philippine Ambassador to US Jose Manuel Romualdez on Wednesday said there are around 350,000 pending cases of deportation among Filipinos in the US, a number of which is now on appeal at deportation courts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Posibleng puwedeng ma<\/em>-extend\u00a0<em>yung kanilang<\/em>\u00a0stay<em>\u00a0dito<\/em>\u00a0(their stay might be extended) and it&#8217;s also possible that these changes might occur under the presidency of President-elect Biden,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Romualdez said there are &#8220;indications&#8221; that Biden would introduce more &#8220;changes&#8221; in the current immigration policies of the US, many of which could be &#8220;beneficial for many of our Filipinos&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippines has been excluded from the list of eligible states to participate in the US H-2A and H-2B visa programs in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>A report earlier cited a Federal Register report saying &#8220;the Philippines had a high H-2B overstay rate,&#8221; with nearly 40 percent Filipino visa holders overstaying in 2017 alone.<\/p>\n<p>The H-2A program allows American employers to bring foreign nationals to the US to fill temporary agricultural jobs, while H-2B visas are dedicated to temporary non-agricultural jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The stay of some 350,000 Filipinos facing deportation in the United States might be extended amid the expected immigration &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":148363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-joyce-ann-l-rocamora","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274981,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274980\/revisions\/274981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}