U.S To Finally End HIV Immigration Ban

by Mike Smith · 2009-09-23 11:12:00 UTC
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An official memo explains that immigration officials in the U.S will soon no longer be able to deny HIV positive immigrants "if the only ground of inadmissability is that the applicant has been diagnosed with HIV infection." Testing for HIV will be allowed to continue, but applicants will be able — and encouraged — to apply for a waiver. The policy was overturned last year with the Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde U.S. Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Reauthorization Act of 2008 but the Bush administration did not choose to change the rules at that time.

View the memo here.

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