OFWs in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) have reason to rejoice as the President of the USA, George Bush recently approved the bill that would apply the US federal immigration law to CNMI. An estimated number of 10,000 legal OFWs in CNMI are said to benefit from this new development.

The new law, S. 2739 or the Consolidated Natural Resources Act of 2008 would erased CNMI’s previous status as the only US territory that implements independent immigration policy. Read more