After more than a year of pressing Congress and the Biden administration to address a procedural change in green card processing that threatens the status of thousands of religious workers in the U.S., The Catholic Diocese of Paterson, New Jersey, alongside five priests facing imminent visa expirations, has sued the Department of State, Department of Homeland Security, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
The lawsuit, the first of its kind by a diocese, argues that the aforementioned change "will cause severe and substantial disruption to the lives and religious freedoms" of the priests as well as the hundreds of thousands of Catholics they serve, as reported by The Associated Press.
