Speaking at the ongoing Agudah Israel Leadership Mission to Washington, D.C., Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.)  said he is working on resolving issues that have recently cropped up with Americans seeking to fly home for Pesach. As reported earlier by YWN, many couples who gave birth to children in Eretz Yisroel over the past several months have found it exceedingly difficult to get passports for their newborns. Many couples who arrived at the US Embassy on David Flusser Street in Yerushalayim on Monday morning were denied entry, with embassy workers telling them that anyone without previously documented US citizenship cannot receive an emergency passport. These new rules precluded the newborns from being awarded passports, despite the obvious illogicity of it all. The situation at the embassy escalated and workers began getting feisty with the young couples, threatening to call security if the applicants didn’t move away. Similar scenes were reported at the Tel Aviv Embassy Branch Office as well. “Nothing is more important than family, and I know that you have children who are married… and they want to come home for Pesach…. they want to come back to their Mishpacha for Pesach…. So we’re working on getting that done,” Schumer told Agudah officials. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
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