{"id":606,"date":"2022-09-29T10:51:41","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T15:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/liquidstudiodev.com\/zepeda-law\/?page_id=606"},"modified":"2023-03-15T10:19:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T15:19:48","slug":"humanitarian-and-diversity-visas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/liquidstudiodev.com\/zepeda-law\/services\/humanitarian-and-diversity-visas\/","title":{"rendered":"Humanitarian and Diversity Visas"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Humanitarian and Diversity Visas<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Federal law provides protections for noncitizen women and men who are the victims of domestic violence or other qualifying crimes. The reauthorization of VAWA allowed for the enhancement of \u201cfederal domestic violence and stalking penalties, added protections for abused foreign nationals, and created programs for elderly and disabled women.\u201d Congress was able to reauthorize VAWA through the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act. The reauthorization brought along modifications that provided \u201cprotections for battered nonimmigrants,\u201d programs for \u201cvictims in needs of transitional housing,\u201d grant recipients had to submit reports on whether the programs were working, required funds to be used for specific missions such as rape prevention, and included \u201cvictims of dating violence.\u201d VAWA 2013, was able to consolidate the VAWA grant programs and create new programs. Provisions were also included for Sexual Assault and Rape Kit Backlogs, Trafficking people, protection orders for American Indian Tribes, and \u201cextended VAWA coverage to derivative children hose self-petitioning parent died during the petition process.\u201d The act also provided more protection for battered nonimmigrants, \u201cexempt[ing] them as VAWA self-petitioners, U Visa petitioners, and battered foreign nationals from being classified as inadmissible for legal permanent resident status if their financial circumstances raised concerns about them becoming potential public charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humanitarian and Diversity Visas Federal law provides protections for noncitizen women and men who are the victims of domestic violence or other qualifying crimes. The reauthorization of VAWA allowed for the enhancement of \u201cfederal domestic violence and stalking penalties, added protections for abused foreign nationals, and created programs for elderly and disabled women.\u201d Congress was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":736,"parent":30,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/services-page.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-606","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/liquidstudiodev.com\/zepeda-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/liquidstudiodev.com\/zepeda-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/liquidstudiodev.com\/zepeda-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liquidstudiodev.com\/zepeda-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liquidstudiodev.com\/zepeda-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/liquidstudiodev.com\/zepeda-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/606\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liquidstudiodev.com\/zepeda-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liquidstudiodev.com\/zepeda-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/liquidstudiodev.com\/zepeda-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}