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Well Done Mr. Rabbani

13 May, 2006

NSEERS waiver granted to Pakistani

Updated: Friday, May 12, 2006 04:42 PM

NEW JERSEY, MAY 11 - Pakistan's Ambassador to the U.S. Gen (Retd) Jehangir Karamat has congratulated a Pakistani-Canadian Naeem Rabbani, for having received the waiver to register with the US immigration authorities daily at the US/Canada border.

In an email sent to Rabbani, Mr Karamat wrote, "This happened because of your consistent effort and refusal to give up. Well done--this is a great achievement and we are proud of you."

An impact of post-Sept. 11, homeland security programs like NSEERS -- the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System mandate immigrants and visitors from certain countries, mostly Muslim and Middle Eastern, to register upon arrival and departure with local immigration authorities. Pakistan tops the list.

Naeem Rabbani, like several hundred Pakistani-Canadians, who cross the northern border daily to work in Detroit in the U.S. state of Michigan, have to register twice daily with the US immigration authorities. Once on arrival and once on departure.

Special registration procedures made Pakistanis like Naeem Rabbani entering the U.S. daily from Canada to go to an area where they were fingerprinted, photographed, asked to show documents, and interviewed as to the length and purpose of their stay in the United States, before allowed across the border.

Mr Rabbani, a year back, launched a campaign to have this stringent requirement, specially for Pakistanis and Pakistani-born Canadians, waived. The task for which the Canadian and Pakistani Governments failed to do was finally done by him single handedly.

Rabbani approached U.S. Senator Debbie Stebnow (D-Mich) in January through Mr Mohammad Ashraf Qazi, a Pakistani-American businessman and social worker and convinced her to take the issue up with relevant authorities which she did. Today the waiver is one of the great achievements by Pakistanis in USA and Canada post 9/11.

According to Rabbani, every Pakistani living in Canada and traveling daily to USA for employment "should apply for a waiver of NSEERS - and hopefully they gonna get it," he added.
(DesPardes News)

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