Comment Submitted by Mir Subhan Ali, Attorney at Law

One of the concerns about the IMBRA has been that the USCIS relies on the U.S.
citizens to voluntarily state their prior history of domestic violence. There
are concerns that many U.S. citizen sponsors will lie or not disclose their
previous domestic violence history. To overcome this all U.S. sponsors should
be subjected to similar FBI and background checks that all applicants for
permanent residency and citizenship in the US are subject to. This will ensure
that the sponsors complete history of violence is disclosed to their
spouses/fiancees.
Secondly, a similar pamphlet should be made available to ALL immigrants,
including all family, employment and diversity immigrants.
Third, the pamphlet should be made immediately available in Urdu, Persian,
Turkish and Bengali.