Immigration Official: Agency 'Going to Be Ready' for Obama Orders - Page 2

They need to extend 245i and Make that GC holders can also petition spouses quicker

This is long overdue. Hoping for access to EAD's for parents of DACA beneficiaries and older dreamers and all those who've been in this country for over 5 or so years. They are fully deserving of EADs if they can demonstrate clean record, good moral character and show solid proof like DACA beneficiaries did.

Does anyone here think that Obama has the unilateral ability to fast forward the date for the registry provision (current date is jam 1, 1971) and perhaps roll back the 3/10 year crap enacted in 1996? That in my mind would be a feasible solution.

No, Obama cannot pass bills, he can sign them or veto them. A change such as that would need to go through congress

The only thing he might try to do is let unused green card numbers from previous years to be used today - or something. This stuff confuses the hell out of me still.

If he does that, then this could be something else entirely then

We've talked about it before, but we are not really sure if he does. If I can find a memo that was posted a few years ago by one of our members, I will post the link. If I remember, correctly, moving up the registry provision to somewhere in the 1990s was discussed in it.

So priority dates like parents petitioning for their children can't be moved up through executive action?

Yes, I recall the memo. It was one of the recommendations to move the registry date from jan 1, 1971 to jan 1, 1996.

Here's the link to Roxana Bacon's leaked memo from a few years back. Read the second paragraph on page 11. DACA implementation appears in line with that recommendation. What hasn't been implemented yet is the update of the registry date - which it seems that the POTUS can legally do without the help of congress.

http://abcnews.go.com/images/Politic...ion-reform.pdf

Registry provision section says January 1st, 1972. It can't be changed except via an act of Congress. Of course a bill with 1 sentence amending it would be enough.

There is plenty of wriggle room elsewhere, if the law can be interpreted to be more pervasive. E.g. counting only principals for green card petitions (effectively tripling the number of available green cards). Recapturing unused visa numbers is another, but again these visa numbers can only be given to people with approved petitions in given categories with current priority dates. They cannot be passed onto someone otherwise ineligible.

Also, I think someone mentioned investors earlier. It's an open category not because dol does sweet FA. It's open because it requires 500,000 to 1,000,000 dollar investment. People with that kind of money generally already made it big in their home countries and have little interest in moving to US.