Meeks Answers Immigration Call

Congressmember Gregory W. Meeks held the Sixth Congressional District Conference Call on Immigration last week to update his non-citizen constituents on a wide variety of issues ranging from new immigration law to medical insurance and how to avoid green card scamming.
Roughly forty people called in from 7:15 to 8:30 p.m. to have their questions answered as U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Community
Liaison Officer Shyconia Burden-Noten, who served as a co-moderator along with the congressmember.
&#8220Knowledge is power and we seek to empower non-citizens in this community,” said Meeks. &#8220This conference call seeks to provide information on technology and how it best serves my constituents.
&#8220We’re going to do everything possible to help immigrants complete their naturalization application, processing times for green cards and citizenship application as well as security clearances.”
Meeks plans to host a Citizenship Day early next year.
&#8220The conference call and other Internet-based services, together with the Citizenship Day, are designed to help the thousands of men, women and children in the Sixth Congressional District to take the critical steps toward citizenship so that they, too, can fully participate in the economy and the democratic process,” said Meeks.
According to Burden-Noten, the congressman has set up an immigration advisory board where policy is discussed since there has been an overflow of constituents with issues dealing with immigration problems that have shown up to Meeks’s offices seeking aid.
The Seventh Congressional District Conference Call on Immigration will be held on January 10, 2007.
During Meeks’s four-term tenure, he has voted for extending immigrant residency rules, voted against reporting illegal aliens who receive hospital treatment and has petitioned for more immigrant visas for skilled workers.