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HIAS PA: New Regulations Hinder Immigrant Voting
L OCA L
SOPHIE PANZER | JE STAFF
PROCESSING DELAYS and
rising fees will prevent thousands
of eligible immigrants from voting
in the 2020 general election, HIAS
Pennsylvania said during a Sept.

16 Facebook Live event.

“We have seen a steady
and increasing amount of
disenfranchisement that’s
happening on a massive scale.

People who are eligible to
naturalize are paying taxes,”
Executive Director Cathryn
Miller-Wilson said. “But they
are not allowed to vote because
of the changes in regulations
that have caused enormous
delays and have resulted in
people not being able to get
their petitions processed or
their oath ceremonies take
place in time.”
M i l ler-Wi lson hosted
“C it i z e n s h ip
D e l ay e d :
Naturalization and Voting for
New Immigrants” with two
staff members. Symbol Lai,
deputy director of the City of
Philadelphia’s Offi ce of Immigrant
Aff airs, also joined to provide
information about voting.

Lori Alexander, director
of HIAS PA’s Citizenship and
Family Reunifi cation Program,
said that since only United
States citizens can vote, the
backlogs of citizenship applica-
tions means many immigrants
will not be naturalized in time
to meet registration deadlines
and cast a ballot in November.

To apply for citizenship,
immigrants must be 18 years
of age or older and have lawful
permanent resident status, or
a green card, for at least fi ve
years (three if married to an
American citizen). Th ey must
also demonstrate they have
abided by the country’s laws
during their residence.

She explained
that immigrants who meet the
requirements must fi le an
application, which can take
months to be approved.

Immigrants swear an oath of allegiance to the United States during a
Th ey also must demonstrate naturalization ceremony at a community college in Illinois in 2015.

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their profi ciency in basic English
and civics during a naturaliza-
tion interview and test. Th ey they swear their allegiance to the over 200,000 less individuals
offi cially become citizens during U.S., which typically takes place are expected to be natural-
a naturalization ceremony when two months aft er the interview. ized,” Clark said.

Th ey can register to vote as soon
She said that in addition to
as the ceremony is completed, facing formidable bureaucra-
but not before.

cies, the coming weeks will
Th is means that even those bring new fi nancial obsta-
who meet every citizenship cles to immigrants trying to
requirement and pass their become citizens.

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Wharton Lands $10M for Israeli MBA Fellowships
L OCA L
ANDY GOTLIEB | JE MANAGING EDITOR
THE U NIVERSITY OF
Pennsylvania announced
Sept. 15 that Wharton School
alumnus Yuri Milner and
his wife Julia committed $10
million to establish the Friends
of Israel MBA Fund to support
Israeli MBA students.

The fund will provide
full tuition in the two-year
Wharton MBA program for
more than 60 Israeli students
over the next decade, according
to the university. Th e fund will
be available starting with the
class of 2023, which is applying
to the university now.

“As a former international
Former Wharton Dean Geoff rey Garett stands with Yuri Milner, who,
with wife Julia, recently gave the school $10 million.

Courtesy of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania
student myself, I know the
transformative impact that an
education in America and at
Wharton can have,” Milner
said in a press release. “Israel,
too, has been an important
home for me and my family,
and our bond with the country
remains strong. My hope
is that this scholarship will
support talented individuals to
look beyond the horizon and
pursue their vision of what the
world can be.”
Milner, 58, a Russian-born
Israeli science and technology
investor and philanthropist,
attended Wharton in the
1990s. He is the founder of DST
Global, a technology investment
company. He ranked 484th on
Forbes’ list of Billionaires 2020
with a net worth of $4.4 billion
as of Sept. 18.

Israeli students are regularly
sought to apply to Wharton,
Director of Admissions Blair
Mannix said. Th ere are about
1,700 students across Wharton’s
two-year MBA program.

“It is a huge population we
recruit every year,” she said.

Students will include those
who have completed Israeli
military service, attended an
Israeli undergraduate institution
or worked at an Israeli company.

Mannix said Israelis tend to
be good fi ts at Wharton.

“Wharton is a very tactile
education — it’s very hands-
on,” she said. “Th at works well
with students from Israel.”
Because of the pandemic,
the usual recruiting trips
Wharton made to Israel have
been replaced with virtual
events, Mannix said. But there’s
been a silver lining to that:
Face-to-face events typically
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