Across this country, your fellow U.S. citizens, your friends, and your neighbors are being separated from their wives and children. They have followed every rule, filed every form, paid every fee, waited years, and attended immigration interviews in good faith, believing that if they did things the legal way, they would be united with their family.

But on January 21, 2026, the Department of State uprooted their lives by implementing an indefinite pause on legal immigration for 75 countries, based on the "risk" of "public charge". 

What makes this painful? These U.S. citizens petitioning for their wives and children are fully capable of supporting their families. They work hard. They pay taxes. They have homes, careers, and stable lives in the United States. 

In fact, they have already signed a legally binding Affidavit of Support with the government; proving that not only will their loved ones will not become a public burden, but that they personally will be financially responsible; which the government accepts before allowing an interview. Yet, they are paused anyway. They are being treated as if they are some kind of risk, not because of their actual circumstances, but because of a sweeping policy tied to nationality.

That is humiliating, dehumanizing, and profoundly unjust.

This is not just paperwork. This is not just politics. This is missed anniversaries, missed birthdays, missed pregnancies and births, children growing up without a mother or father at home, and married couples forced to live separate lives while the government gives them no real answers and no meaningful timeline - complete radio silence.

Families who did everything the right way are being punished.

The real kicker? The State Department made room for adoption cases to proceed, but not for the biological children of U.S. citizens. Parents are still being kept apart from their own sons and daughters.

Ask yourself, as an American, is that really a policy you think is just? 

American families deserve better than silence and an indefinite pause.  Cases should be judged on individual facts, not broad assumptions based upon where someone was born.

We call on the Department of State to end the 75 Country Pause, resume fair and individualized immigrant visa adjudications, and provide clear answers to the families whose lives have been frozen by this policy.

Please sign this petition and stand with the American families still fighting to be reunited.