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FINANCIAL
RESPONSIBILITY - ECONOMIC EXPANSION AND DOCUMENTED ORGANIZED MANAGEMENT.
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Undocumented
individuals who are continuously, physically present in the United States as
of the date of the signing of the Act by the President are eligible to file
an adjustment of status application to that of a Lawful Permanent Resident.
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These
individuals must meet all the requirements under Section 212(a) - (2) and
(3) of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
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These
individuals must file applications within two and a half years of the final
passage of a legalization law.
This
category will begin with the Legalization effort as previously processed under
IRCA in 1986. However, this new form of Temporary Resident Status will also
allow intending immigrants who have an approved family-based petitions pending
or approved employment-based petitions pending to enter the United States
immediately. These Temporary Residents who are on a waiting list for visa
numbers will then be reunited with United States Citizen or Lawful Permanent
Resident family members or united with prospective United States employers.
Those aliens who enter through an approved employment petition have the option
of changing employers if they want, but they must demonstrate that they are
working for another employer or are self-employed and that they are paying
taxes. Exceptions to this requirement under the TRS category are those who are
unable to work, such as, pregnant women or women with newborns, the elderly,
children, the disabled and injured, abused spouses.
BENEFITS
OF AN AMNESTY (LEGALIZATION)
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The
Amnesty applicant is not required to have been inspected and admitted or
paroled into the United States.
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The
Amnesty applicant is not subject to bars as set forth in Section 245(c) of
the Act. (e.g., the Act bars aliens who accepted or continued in
unauthorized employment, aliens who remained in the United States longer
than authorized, aliens admitted as crewmen, in transit without visa, or
under the visa waiver pilot program).
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Neither
worldwide quota restrictions nor per-country quota restrictions apply.
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The
Amnesty would allow an otherwise qualified applicant to adjust status,
notwithstanding inadmissibility for likelihood of becoming a public change,
for failure to obtain a labor certification, for failure to meet certain
requirements applicable to foreign-trained physicians, for failure to meet
certain standards for foreign health-care workers, for entering or remaining
in the country illegally, for violating documentary requirements relating to
entry as an immigrant, or for accruing more than 180 days of unlawful
presence prior to the alien's last departure or removal.
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An
undocumented individual who has been paroled into the United States and is
now in exclusion or removal proceedings before an immigration judge is not
barred from filing an application for adjustment of status while in such
proceedings.
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An
undocumented individual who has an order of deportation is not barred from
filing an application for adjustment of status under the legalization.
BENEFITS
OF A TEMPORARY RESIDENT STATUS PROGRAM
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Individuals
will not attempt to enter the United States illegally while awaiting for
their approved immigrant petition to become current, as they might do under
the 245(i) program.
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United
States Citizens and Lawful Permanent Residents will be reunited with family
members who have been waiting for many years to enter the United States.
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The
waiting list for all countries will be current and equal because neither
worldwide quota restrictions nor per-country quota restrictions apply.
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The
United States will move toward solving its problem with the current and
growing labor shortage that is present in the various labor fields.
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The
U.S. government will continue to have a controlled policy of bringing
previously approved beneficiaries into the United States.
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It
will stop the multi-million dollar industry of smuggling undocumented
persons into the U.S.
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The
United States will have a system already in place for future beneficiaries
of approved petitions.
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It
will stop the several million dollar a year phony ID industry, redirecting
some of these resources to the U.S. government.
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It
will lead to the legal transfer of money and property.
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It
will save the government money by allowing de-militarization of the border
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It
will lead to the proper collection of all taxes.
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It
will end the brutal deaths suffered by those crossing the border (last year
over 400 recorded deaths)
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It
will make possible the accounting of all people in the U.S.
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The
government will have full and total control of all people crossing the
borders.
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