Immigrant Women of Silicon Alley seeking protection against battering
Mallika came to New York in late summer 1998, filled with hope. She left behind family and friends in India to start a new life with her husband, had just a software position in a large company in Silicon Alley.
The optimism was soon replaced by despair, as the month of daily verbal attacks on her husband escalation of physical violence. “It would humiliate me every day, Call Me Names, slap me pull my hair,” she says. “I would say that is resting and cry all the time. Every day felt so long.”
But whenever Mallika husband threatened to divorce her, she ask him to stay. For them, divorce poverty spelling and worse, expulsion.
Mallika (not her real name) belongs to a little-known but growing group of abused spouses: Foreign spouses of the computer professional. Each year, thousands of boy and software programmers, engineers in this country of high-tech jobs, their wives whose right to stay here, the salary varies depending on the receiver. Mallika that women are detained by immigration policy, their husbands full control of their lives.
“These laws are décentrées compared to those, can contribute to the economy,” San Francisco-based immigration lawyer Dean Ito Taylor said. “These women are not even a priority for the legislature.’s Position is that it does not deserve to have it all right to protection”.
Now, some are working on immigration in favour of amending the law. They are calling for a new class of visas could contribute to what abused women. Buried in a new giant Senate authorizing accounts 1994 Violence Against Women Act, the provision would be a “T” visa allows that the victims of physical or psychological violence and have cooperated with police and prosecutors to live and work in this country for an indefinite period and for a permanent green card after three years. The Department of Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), issuance of visas to 10000 T per year.
“It is certainly greater availability and willingness to help these people,” said Leslye Orloff, the program director of immigrant women to the National Organization for Women’s Legal Defense Fund, is the leader of the fee legislation. ” [Members of Congress], we can not seriously pursuing domestic violence, without proper protection of victims “.
Orloff, said the current immigration law based on the idea obsolete, a man whom his family. Under this system, women give the country on an H-4 visa spousal support, the relationship of their status as immigrants in their joint work H-1B visa. When the marriage ends, the woman left the country.
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