St. James Church – Searcy issued the following announcement on Feb. 18.
Due to changes and delays in the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, priests from dioceses outside the United States with pending immigration cases have had to leave, stop working or may have to return to their home diocese.
Thirteen priests working in the Diocese of Little Rock could be impacted by these delays.
“It’s not just our diocese, and in fact, several months ago we had a Zoom meeting with attorneys, civil attorneys throughout the country who work on religious immigration stuff to kind of brainstorm, what are the problems you’re facing? What are the issues you’re facing? How do you approach this issue in your diocese? What have you done here? So it’s not just a problem in our diocese,” said Deacon Matt Glover, chancellor for canonical affairs at the Diocese of Little Rock. “It’s not anything that any of our priests are doing wrong, or not doing quickly enough.
Original source can be found here.
Source: St. James Church – Searcy
