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04-16-2013, 05:12 AM
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They are still filing the CIR bill Today. Here are the details of the plan as stated from NBC News:


Details of Sweeping Senate Immigration Plan Revealed

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Included in the bill are the following provisions, according to a summary memo provided to NBC News:
  • Allow undocumented immigrants who have lived in the United States continually since before December 31, 2011 to apply for “Registered Provisional Immigrant Status” if they pay back taxes and $500 in fines, and if they have not been convicted of a felony or 3 or more misdemeanors or voted illegally. Individuals with this status can work for any employer and travel outside the country but are not eligible to receive means-tested federal public benefits.
  • After 10 years in Registered Provisional Immigrant Status, individuals will be eligible – pending border security measures and a clearing of existing backlogs for legal immigrants – to earn a merit-based green card if they have worked in the United States, demonstrated knowledge of the English language and paid an additional fine of $1000.
  • Allow eligible DREAM act applicants and certain agricultural workers to apply for green cards within five years
  • Regarding border security, the bill would set a goal of “90% effectiveness” – meaning the rate of apprehensions and turnbacks of potential entrants – per fiscal year in the most high-risk areas of the southern border. If that goal is not met within five years, a bipartisan “Border Commission” made up of border state governors and experts will be formed to issue new recommendations on how to achieve it.
  • Allocate $3 billion for increased surveillance and manpower along the country’s southern border and an additional $1.5 billion for fencing.
  • Include a border security “trigger” requiring that no undocumented immigrant can achieve legal “Registered Provisional Immigrant” status until strategies for border security have been submitted by the Department of Homeland Security to Congress.
  • Require an additional “trigger” that prevents those with “Registered Provisional Immigrant” status from becoming eligible to apply for Lawful Permanent Resident status until the Department of Homeland Security and the Comptroller General certify that border security strategies are operational and a mandatory employment verification system has been implemented.
  • Create a new “W” visa program to allow non-agricultural temporary workers to come to the United States to work for registered employers.
  • Eliminate family-based visas for siblings of United States citizens as well as the Diversity Visa program while eliminating caps on visas for certain employment-based categories.
  • Use a point system for a new “merit based” visa, of which 120,000 would initially be awarded per year, with a maximum cap of 250,000 annually. Points will be awarded based on criteria including education, employment and length of residence in the U.S.
  • Require an “enhanced E-Verify” system to prevent ineligible workers from taking jobs in the United States. Employers with more than 5,000 employees will be phased in within two years; employers with more than 500 employees will be phased in within three years.
  • Raise the annual cap on H1-B visas for high-skilled workers from 65,000 to 110,000, with provisions to prevent such workers from undercutting American wages. Set a maximum cap at 180,000 such visas.
Seems fair except for the "triggers" that may prevent you from being eligible if their goals of security measures at the borders are not met...

The payback taxes also fair...but what if it's a lot for certain people, it may leave them broke.

Regardless, it's a start and better than nothing. 5 Years for DREAMERS is fair.

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Oh man 5 YEARS!!! ahh i know it's much better than the rest but i got so happy when i heard on the news that we would be granted IMMEDIATE green cards. I knew it was too good to be true. oh well ill marry me a gringa lol
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Oh man 5 YEARS!!! ahh i know it's much better than the rest but i got so happy when i heard on the news that we would be granted IMMEDIATE green cards. I knew it was too good to be true. oh well ill marry me a gringa lol
not even two months for you?

life is so fair
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what does it "voted illegally mean? does that mean that if you falsely claimed U.S. citizenship for voting purposes or others, the applicant is unable to get a provisional immigrant status?
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what does it "voted illegally mean? does that mean that if you falsely claimed U.S. citizenship for voting purposes or others, the applicant is unable to get a provisional immigrant status?
i would assume, as this is taken very very seriously
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not even two months for you?

life is so fair
Seriously wtf. Some of us have been waiting for 6+months. Not hating on him, just hating on USCIS.
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what does it "voted illegally mean? does that mean that if you falsely claimed U.S. citizenship for voting purposes or others, the applicant is unable to get a provisional immigrant status?
Does anyone know about claiming US Citizenship on an I-9 form? Will a dreamer not be eligible?
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They know probably more than half claimed US Citizenship in I9 forms and/or college applications. They are refering of people who voted in elections.

I have a friend who claimed Citizenship in various I9 forms and even worked with somebody's else SSN and he is now a green card holder. Don't worry about it.
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They know probably more than half claimed US Citizenship in I9 forms and/or college applications. They are refering of people who voted in elections.

I have a friend who claimed Citizenship in various I9 forms and even worked with somebody's else SSN and he is now a green card holder. Don't worry about it.
Ok thanks soooooo much!
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Seriously wtf. Some of us have been waiting for 6+months. Not hating on him, just hating on USCIS.
i know man I was never expecting this, It does suck that USCIS isn't handling all cases the same.
I bet i sent as much evidence as anyone but idk. I do hope that all of us get our residence in 5 years.

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