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Originally Posted by dreamofgold
For people who have read the entire bill:
What happens to the people who have been waiting for like 15 years under a family sponsorship? Do they get to adjust their status immediately to Permanent Residency?
And if that sponsored individual is married with children, does the spouse as well as the children adjust their status?
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I guess you just retain your priority date and continue wating with IPR status. (PAGE 288 )
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‘‘(B) FAMILY AND EMPLOYMENT-BASED
9 PETITIONS.—The priority date for any family10
or employment-based petition shall be the date
11 of filing of the petition with the Secretary of
12 Homeland Security (or the Secretary of State,
13 if applicable), unless the filing of the petition
14 was preceded by the filing of a labor certifi15
cation with the Secretary of Labor, in which
16 case that date shall constitute the priority date.
17 The beneficiary of any petition shall retain his
18 or her earliest priority date based on any peti19
tion filed on his or her behalf that was approv20
able when filed, regardless of the category of
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