For Undocumented Immigrants, a License to Teach

freshh. · 06-01-2016, 10:18 AM

You've just gotta love New York. Congrats to all of our DACAmented future doctors, teachers, nurses, etc.

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But on Wednesday, a rule passed by the New York State Board of Regents in February will go into effect, allowing certain undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children to apply for professional teaching certificates and for licenses in 57 professions. Soon, nurses, social workers, architects and engineers who came from countries as disparate as Dubai, South Korea and Ecuador will enter the city’s work force, newly licensed. Medical students now have a way to fulfill their ambitions.

“It’s just a relief,” Mr. Pérez, 30, said last week in his classroom at the International High School at Union Square, where students hail from 49 countries. “I feel like I’m always on borrowed time because I don’t know what’s going to happen next.”

The state’s rule change comes after a 2015 decision that allowed the licensing of an undocumented New York lawyer, Cesar Vargas. An appellate panel of the State Supreme Court ruled last June that Mr. Vargas should be allowed to practice law because he was authorized to work under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

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