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Father Rodriguez stands to the left of Father Thomas Martin, pastor and administrator of two parishes in Redwood City, Calif. (photo: Courtesy photo / Archdiocese of San Francisco)
By Joan Frawley Desmond, EWTN News, December 12, 2023
The unprecedented flood of undocumented immigrants has resulted in unanticipated restrictions on the availability of visas for religious workers from other countries.
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Only nine months ago, Father Edgardo Rodriguez, a Salvadoran priest beloved in his California parish, was on a clear path to securing permanent residency in the United States.
He expected to live out his vocation in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, where he had served since 2018 and applied for incardination with the support of Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone.
Instead, to the shock of Father Rodriguez, his parish community and the archdiocese, the priest was notified by U.S. immigration authorities last April that he would have to return to his home country for one year and apply for reentry, restarting the entire process for securing a lawful permanent residency card, commonly called the green card….
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