For more than a year, religious organizations have lobbied Congress and the Biden administration to fix a sudden procedural change in how the government processes green cards for religious workers, which threatens the ability of thousands of them to continue to minister in the United States.
Catholic diocese sues U.S. government, worried some foreign-born priests might be forced to leave
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