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Don't want to wait to be free/legal?

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#1
12-09-2007, 08:19 AM
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I personally don't want to wait absolutely more than 5 years to get legal status in this country, and i am willing to do anything but kill or illegal to get some form of legal status here...if it's not possible then legal status somewhere else so...if you have any suggestions i dont care if it means flying to china or walking the sahara dessert, let me know. Something along the lines of Canada? or even leaving the country then coming back legally? Actually, if you voluntarily with out order of deportation leave the country does the 10 year ban still apply? and is it exactly 10 years or can you take that to court and attempt for a shorter ban? Does the living illegally in the U.S. at some point of your life stay with you forever as a negative effect in the U.S. somewhere whether applying for ajob or such? What about moving back to your country and moving to puerto rico? Does the 10 year U.S. ban apply to puerto rico? And if in puerto rico can you work out something to become a U.s. resident? If you move back to your country do you get penalized at all for going back? ofcourse if your country is democratic, communist or such is bound to hold some consequences. Any other suggestions or words of wisdom?
I Know there's a load of different stuff to answer so thanks for your patience and responses! hopefully we can come up with an alternative, a back up plan in case things dont go the way we want with this act, or it takes more time than any of us can stand to resolve this issue.
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12-09-2007, 10:37 AM
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You would be a legal citizen in Puerto Rico.
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12-09-2007, 11:48 AM
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Are you puerto rican? I don't think it's that easy to do that.
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12-09-2007, 11:49 AM
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Quote:
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You would be a legal citizen in Puerto Rico.
When it comes to immigration, don't listen to any advise webstar has to give.
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12-09-2007, 11:58 AM
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Don't take immigration advice from webstar, he has no knowledge what so ever on the process. Sorry, but it's true.

Even if you leave voluntarily you get a 10 year ban. The reality is even if you were an EWI (didn't come here through an entry point), it's pretty easy to determine you were here before. School records, the fact that you speak perfect unccented English, they ask for school records from you home country, parents live here, etc. It's considered fraud lying to USCIS about prior entires and makes it a very serious felony. You will get caught and screw yourself over. People after finding out they were undocumented, who try to leave and come back legally are always screwed over by the system. If it was as easy as leaving and coming back legally, wouldn't everyone here have already done it?

There's the catch-22.

Once you leave, you have a 10 year ban. Even after the 10 year ban is up, they will not grant you any non-permanent visa like a work, tourist, or student visa. You have too many ties to this country and USCIS thinks you have a high probability of overstaying.

If you entered with a visa, you can adjust when you get married if that person is a US citizen. Or for those of you married to another DREAMer (it's rare, but it happens), you will have to wait until until one of your children turns 21 (probably not, since CIR or DREAM will pass before that).

If you entered without a visa, you can adjust when you get married as well but you need the I-601 (I think that's th right number) wavier. See www.immigrate2us.net.

J6 and a couple others know the dilemma of trying to immigrate in Canada, You will have to explain your time spent here and it never looks good that were undocumented, even if it isn't you fault. Enter Canada the search box to find the threads.
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12-09-2007, 12:16 PM
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Pretty much if you choose to go back to your native country, take Dante's advice when people enter into the depths:

"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here."
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12-09-2007, 12:20 PM
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It won't be 5 years. DREAM hopefully will pass before that or you may get married in the meantime. 5 years is the maximum.
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12-09-2007, 01:32 PM
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who knows how long we have to wait for it.............maybe 5 year maybe next year... nobody knows.......last few years i have lot of hope, but now NOPE~~~~every time the bill came up congress and kill by the senator(Repubilcan)......
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12-10-2007, 12:44 AM
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We will not have to wait around much longer. Think of it this way, ever since the concept of the Dream act was formulated, Bush Jr has been in office. Republicans controlled congress. Now, congress is controlled by democrats and we are getting a new president soon, plus we have some retirees...

Something will happen.
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12-10-2007, 12:59 AM
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thank you all so much for your answers except for webstar (point taken )i can't nor i want to depend on marriage to get legal status, my girlfriend is german and finnish (dual citizen) and has visited the U.S. legally but is not a resident or anything...almost 4 years into it and serious so marrying an american is not an option. I cannn get into the military, aparently i have some varification paper dealy that allowes me to enter the military but i would not kill a fly let alone have anything to do with the killing of another person...just because your country tells you killing is ok, doesn't make it so for me. But dont get it twisted! i have A LOT of respect for those fighting to keep people like me xP from firing a weapon to another person...freedom!...sort of...in our case xP. But annyway xP, yeah and i hear military is another door towards legal status but nope. So far the best chance i got from reading everything about illegals becoming legal is creating a million dollar business xP...the whole stock market, creating a helpful business thing deal law xP.
I'm gona continue to ask questions, i hope you guys dont mind answering them, i just really have to find a cracked open door somewhere, i want to do something other than wait for a law to happen :/.
Are the anyyy exceptions at all with the 10 year ban? like if i go back to my home country and i get a job that requires me to travel to the states, would that be possible? I mean, if you think about that possibility being possible, think about it...well me personally, i speak english better than spanish lol xD...we studied here, we know how things work here, and no accent...wouldnt that be an obvious pick if your company in your home country decided to send somebody over here?
And i read a lot about studying in canada, if you get accepted to a school in canada, would that get you out of the 10 year ban? if you decide to come back to the states legally?
Also i was thinking, how about if we press to the senators for at leassst for us "Dreamies" to be able to go back to our home country with out the 10 year ban...wouldnt that be an easier bill to pass? I know it's not quite the dream act but, it would probably pass sooner than the dream act and give us an open door
And one last question xP...i think i asked this already but it wasnt quite answered...does the fact that you were an illegal immigrant at one point in your life affect your future forever? traveling to other countries? traveling to the US even after the ban? working whether in your home country or here in the states once you become legalized?
thanks so much guys
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