President Obama enacts visa program for religious workers
By JTA
LAST UPDATED: 09/30/2012 23:58
WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama enacted a three-year extension to a visa program for religious workers.
Obama on Sept. 28 signed the law, passed by Congress with overwhelming margins earlier in September, extending the Special Immigrant Non-Minister Religious Worker Program until Sept. 30, 2015.
The law, which is particularly important to small Jewish communities in remote areas, makes available up to 5,000 permanent immigrant visas each year for religious workers of various denominations.