South Korea and the United States will discuss establishing a new visa category for Koreans, Seoul’s overseas minister was quoted as saying.
Kim Hong-ji | Reuters
South Korea and the United States will discuss establishing a new visa category for Koreans, Seoul’s overseas minister was quoted as saying, after a U.S. immigration raid noticed 475 workers rounded up at a Hyundai Motor web site.
Foreign Minister Cho Hyun additionally mentioned after assembly U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday that he had assurances that the South Koreans who’re due to be launched is not going to face disadvantages if they struggle to re-enter the United States, the Yonhap News Agency reported.
Cho had flown to Washington to resolve what has turn out to be a diplomatic quagmire after about 300 South Koreans working on the web site of an electrical car battery plant in Georgia had been detained by U.S. immigration authorities final week.
A chartered aircraft carrying the workers will depart the United States on Thursday and the group is not going to be handcuffed when they’re transferred from the detention heart to the airport, Cho was additionally quoted as saying by Yonhap.
U.S. immigration authorities routinely handcuff and shackle immigrants when they’re placed on deportation flights.
There was no speedy remark from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security or the State Department.
Cho instructed Rubio that Koreans had been “hurt and shocked” by the arrest of workers “who came to the U.S. to transfer technology and know-how to contribute to the Trump administration’s efforts to revive the U.S. manufacturing industry,” South Korea’s overseas ministry mentioned earlier.
Korean companies have complained about strict U.S. limits on visas for expert overseas workers, which they are saying make it tough for them to oversee development of factories or to practice native workers.