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Have you heard of this policy for undocumented citizens who have family in the military?
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/...
According to this, an illegal immigrant who has an immediate family member who is currently in the military can apply for parole so they can apply for legal status without having to leave the country and face a possible three or ten year ban. From there, it's assumed they can eventually apply for Permanent Resident status and Naturalization like any other legal immigrant. This policy was supposedly put in place in May.
What is your opinion on it? Do you think it's the right thing, such as a way to keep families together who would otherwise be apart for years? Or do you think it has the potential of being abused, such as the possibility of illegal immigrants paying servicemembers to marry them so they can gain legal status without having to leave the country?
@ Yak: I remember that policy as well with the illegal petitioner having to go back to their home country to apply. We get a lot of people in our area asking if they can join if they're illegal and we tell them that they can't join without a Green Card and they will most likely have to return home and then apply for a visa there. However, the article I linked apparently talks about a brand new policy which was put in place less than three months ago and gives the illegal family member the option to adjust status without having to go back home first as long as they have an immediate family member who is active duty military. There's actually a memo straight from USCIS that details the program and says the illegal family member can stay as long as they don't have any trouble with the law. I'm not going to pretend to know all the details of it but the main thing about the article is that it's talking about servicemembers who can keep their illegal family members from beind deported.
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- Yak RiderLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
Yes, I've heard of humanitarian parole. Good luck getting it approved.
Back in the 80's when the Navy was still taking Filipinos we had a Filipino crew member got killed. He didn't have his Green Card yet and neither did his wife who lived in San Diego. They had 3 US born children she was raising who were citizens.
Immigration ordered her to leave and it darn near took an act of congress to get her approval to stay.
Service members who marry illegal aliens can still file an immigration petition for the spouse. The only difference in the process is that the spouse needs to return to his/her own country to process the visa and as a part of the process the spouse will need a Waiver of Inadmissibility. The waiver takes up to 6 months and is usually granted unless the illegal alien spouse had legal problems while in the USA.
- TheWeenLv 51 decade ago
One more reason why we need to start cracking down on these laws. I'm hoping they change the Constitution to no longer allow anchor babies.
This country can't take care of all these people!
