REALLY Great Immigration News! You guys are gonna love this! - Page 3

My understanding is that it helps anybody who is trying to readjust their case who is not 245i eligible- those marrying a US citizen, those who had a family member petition for them (after waiting 12 years or whatever it takes for a citizen sibling like in my case), or other family members.

Is there a way to not leave the country at all though? For Mexican folk, it may not be so hard to take a drive down south and stay there for a couple of weeks but I pretty much am without a native country lol.

Wait so

If this gets passed

and my mother marries a USC

and I am over 21

She'll be able to petition for me?????????????????????

You will have to go back to your home country and wait for a visa. There is a process for petitioning a family member and the waiting period depends on the country where you are from. Things like priority date comes into the picture always. If you applied in 2012 then you will have to wait for a visa until that date is current.

Lol at you - in a good way.
"Mom, please go find yourself a nice American husband so I can have my green card"...hahaha. Your new stepdad could petition you if you are under 21.

P.S.Sorry, I read your post quickly and obviously missed the part where you disclose you are over 21. It sucks.

My mom has a boyfriend already and he calls himself my stepdad so...

If I go back to my country over the summer, will I be able to come back in time for the fall semester? That's 3 months.

Yep. I don't think the approval rate is all that great either. Extreme Hardship has to be exactly what it sounds like.. Extreme. Unless they are lowering the standards of approval, I dont see this as news at all. Obama is just expediting a current process, calling it progress to win support.

The Obama campaign has disclosed publicly that their re-election motto is "change that has been effected" - He deserves re-election so he can continue to change things for us. Aha...since nothing has changed for 99% of us, cue in collective laughter here.

That's delusional thinking.

This only changes a very small flaw. It does not signify a change to who is applicable, just that they would be able to apply for the waiver and go to their foreign country to start the petition waiver in hand, rather than go to the country, be banned, start the petition and then apply for the waiver.

If the waiver got denied in the previous way of doing things, the person was barred entry for 3-10 years, and depending on who is petitioning, and which foreign country it was, the process could take as long as 20-25 years.

With such odds, there are certainly bound to be a lot of people with extreme hardship that where not willing to take such a huge risk, specially considered that they would face extreme hardship if the petition was denied.

What I wonder is what they would do if an extreme hardship waiver was denied? Would it just be denied and they would still be able to stay in the country hope for a CIR or DREAM Act, or would ICE do what they have been doing recently with failed asylum cases and attempt to deport those people.

Umm.... it is still a good attempt at fixing a flaw that currently exists, but ICE is out of control, they have taken the 400,000 limit as a quota for deportations, and in doing so will attempt to deport everyone, criminal background or not, to reach that quota.