Current Campaigns

Hearts@Home Campaign

Family unity is a core American value and key goal of the U.S. immigration system. Yet 4 million people wait abroad for years in green card backlogs created by an outdated system. Hundreds of thousands of family members in the U.S. are also at risk of deportation because these backlogs affect their status. As presidential election season approaches, the Biden administration can take steps NOW to reunite families and keep them together by:

• Reissuing green cards that went unused in the past several years

• Providing parole for people in family backlogs

• Expanding family reunification parole to all countries

Join the Hearts@Home Campaign!

Help us ensure the Biden administration does right by immigrant families. Actions will include coordinated call-in and postcard campaigns, sign-on letters, op-ed placement, and an in-person visit to Washington to press the case for action now.

Resources: 

Check out our one-pager in English and Spanish.

Take a look at our sign-on letter for faith leaders.

Sign our online petition! Our next goal is 750 signatures.

Take our postcard to get signatures at tabling events.

Policy meetings with Congress/Biden administration champions

Reintroducing the Reuniting Families Act

The Reuniting Families Act, last introduced in September 2023, contains common sense solutions to existing processes to ease the backlogs in a family immigration system that has seen no reforms in more than 30 years.

Click here for our summary of the this important legislation that can help the almost 4 million people caught in the backlogs reunite with their families, some who have waited more than a decade to see them, and protect hundreds of thousands of community members in the U.S. from deportation. Among other things, the Reuniting Families Act:

• More than doubles number of family preference visas available 

• Raises the per-country visa limit, so the wait is not so long for countries with high levels of immigration

• Sets an absolute time limit, so no immigrant has to wait more than 10 years for a visa if they have an approved application

As part of a Beyond the Bureaucracy Week of Action in June, Value Our Families presented a webinar exploring arbitrary barriers in the family immigration system that keep some families separated for decades.

You can watch the full webinar on Facebook.