{"id":647422,"date":"2023-02-07T03:48:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T03:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=647422"},"modified":"2023-02-07T04:35:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T04:35:03","slug":"frederick-organization-calls-for-congress-to-act-on-legislation-extending-stay-for-afghan-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/frederick-organization-calls-for-congress-to-act-on-legislation-extending-stay-for-afghan-refugees","title":{"rendered":"Frederick organization calls for Congress to act on legislation extending stay for Afghan refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FREDERICK, Md. (DC News Now) &#8212; Lutheran Social Services is an organization that helps immigrants with their transition to the United States. Their chapter in Frederick has assisted 4,500 Afghan refugees since last summer, but some refugees are running out of time to get permanent residency. Thousands of Afghan refugees fled their country after the U.S.&#8217; military withdrawal in 2021. Some refugees are now caught in legal limbo because of their legal status known as &#8216;humanitarian parole&#8221; is coming to an end. It allowed them to stay in the country for up to two years. One refugee family in Frederick received their green cards two days ago. &#8220;We moved from Qatar to the states. We are so glad that you&#8217;re here and we are safe now. Everyone, even my friends, are waiting for the permanent residency and hopefully, they will get it soon,&#8221; said Khwajadurmohammad Sidiqi. Afghan refugees left in limbo as Congress fails to pass citizenship pathway bill Krish<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FREDERICK, Md. (DC News Now) &#8212; Lutheran Social Services is an organization that helps immigrants with their transition to the United States. Their chapter in Frederick has assisted 4,500 Afghan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}