CHARLES NYAGA

In December I had a short post on Charles Nyaga, the Kenyan immigrant who may be deported because the INS failed to process his diversity visa application on time. Nyaga hasn't been deported yet, and Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss (R) has proposed legislation that would help him out (full story here) :

Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) has introduced a bill (S. 2089) that would help Nyaga and other immigrants who won a shot at legal status through an annual "diversity lottery" program but lost out because immigration authorities did not act on their applications before an annual deadline.

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Chambliss' office said it has heard of several dozen people in Nyaga's situation nationwide.

The bill is in committee, where most bills die of neglect.

Seems to me that this one is worth writing to your representatives about.

MORE: See also Nyaga's April 28th testimony before the Immigration Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee, here.

Absent a systematic legislative fix of the problem, a private relief bill is the best shot for Nyaga himself, but that would still leave lots of people in the lurch.