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Until now, even if lower-middle income and noncitizens with and family members world. Ensuring equal-
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a country was subject countries, that send US citizen or perma- who are in the US. It ity would be in the in-
to a Covid ban, one many immigrants to nent resident children will make more sense terest of the US and
applying for an immi- the US. Indeed, the are exempted from if the US insists that the whole world as it
grant visa is exempt- US needs to ensure in the ban. So are those everyone entering the would create the best
ed from the ban. The concert with the WHO who can obtain nation- country be fully vac- chance to eradicate the
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lack of vaccine access that there is no vaccine al interest exception cinated rather than coronavirus pandemic
in a country will surely inequality and peo- waivers on a variety of subject countries to once and for all.
hinder the immigrant ple from all over the grounds. On the other Covid Proclamations.
visa process and im- world must have quick hand, those subject to However, to make this
pose a de facto ban. and easy access to vac- the ban have to suffer a worthy goal, the US (This blog is for infor-
mation purposes, and
Those who have won cines. It is a sad state immeasurable hard- as a global leader must should not be relied
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the DV lottery must of affairs that vaccine ships by remaining sep- ensure vaccine equal- upon as a substitute for
be processed for the hesitant people in the arated from employers ity to everyone in the legal advice).
immigrant visa by Sep- US refuse to get vac- _________________________________________________________________________________________________
tember 30 each year, cinated when there is Cyrus D. Mehta, a graduate of Cambridge University and Columbia Law School, is the Managing
and a delay in getting so much vaccine avail- Partner of Cyrus D. Mehta & Partners PLLC in New York City. Mr. Mehta is a member of AILA’s
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fully vaccinated by the ability while it is diffi- Administrative Litigation Task Force; AILA’s EB-5 Committee; former chair of AILA’s Ethics
deadline will result in cult to get a vaccine in Committee; special counsel on immigration matters to the Departmental Disciplinary Committee,
the loss of an immi- other countries. Appellate Division, First Department, New York; member of the ABA Commission on Immigra-
grant visa under this Finally, we have tion; board member of Volunteers for Legal Services and board member of New York Immigration
category. This is not consistently main- Coalition. Mr. Mehta is the former chair of the Board of Trustees of the American Immigration
to suggest we should tained that the Covid Council and former chair of the Committee on Immigration and Nationality Law of the New
York City Bar Association. He is a frequent speaker and writer on various immigration-related
object to the manda- proclamations impos- issues, including on ethics, and is also an adjunct professor of law at Brooklyn Law School, where
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tory vaccination of in- ing travel restrictions he teaches a course entitled Immigration and Work. Mr. Mehta received the AILA 2018 Edith
tending immigrants are ineffective in curb- Lowenstein Memorial Award for advancing the practice of immigration law and the AILA 2011
before arriving in the ing the spread of the Michael Maggio Memorial Award for his outstanding efforts in providing pro bono representation
US because of the lack coronavirus as they in the immigration field. He has also received two AILA Presidential Commendations in 2010
of vaccine availabili- are riddled with ex- and 2016. Mr. Mehta is ranked among the most highly regarded lawyers in North America by
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ty in many countries, ceptions. US citizens, Who’s Who Legal – Corporate Immigration Law 2019 and is also ranked in Chambers USA and
especially in low and permanent residents Chambers Global 2019 in immigration law, among other rankings.
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