Over 300 International Educators have moved from across the world on H1B Visas to fill critical vacancies in DC Public Schools. They have become treasured members of our community and have planted deep roots. All built on a heavily implied promise by DC Public Schools that there was a pathway to permanent residency.

In January of 2025 DCPS abruptly canceled their established Green Card policy without notifying anyone. This has put a deadline of 6 years maximum on each person who has joined DCPS on an H1B, many of whom only have 1-2 years left. This will force them to leave the United States along with their families.

The DC Council has appropriated money specifically to support DCPS ability to process permanent residency applications through the hiring of an additional attorney and to pay the specific filing fees associated with the initial application. Unfortunately, DCPS Chancellor Lewis Ferebee has said that DCPS will not spend the appropriated money.

This email campaign targeting different decision makers in the Mayor's Office to build pressure for DCPS to do the right thing and hire the additional attorney that the DC Council has appropriated money for and begin the immediate resumption of the DCPS Green Card policy so that our valued International Educators have access to the pathway to permanent residency that was promised.