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Wednesday, April 01, 2015

Army Offering More a Fast Track to Citizenship

New York Times
By Julia Preston
March 31, 2015


The Army will expand a program offering a fast track to citizenship for immigrants with special language or medical skills. Based on guidance published Friday, the program, Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest (Mavni), will increase to 3,000 enlistments this fiscal year and 5,000 in the 2016 fiscal year, up from the current limit of 1,500. An Army spokesman, Hank Minitrez, said the program was “extremely successful in filling our ranks with highly qualified soldiers who fill critical shortages.” Foreigners accepted to enlist have been legal immigrants on temporary visas. In September, the program also was opened to young undocumented immigrants with deportation deferrals under a 2012 initiative by President Obama. Mr. Minitrez said that a few had applied but that none had been accepted to date.

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