Thanks to Federal Agent 86 at Federale ("Because Policing The Internet Is Not For The Weak Of Heart") for the mention.
Money quote(s):
"The amnesty campaign is in full swing, both an overt effort and now a covert effort on the right to give all illegal aliens in the U.S. status that will eventually lead to citizenship and a Demoncrat majority based on third world immigration."
"(O)nce the illegals are legalized with "registration," what arguement will there to prohibit the illegals from being granted LPR status? None. They will be here, they will be working, they will be paying taxes, they will be on welfare. The illegals will be defacto Legal Permanent Residents. Without any doubt some liberal federal judge will see the obvious and grant LPR status based on some manufactured penumbra of the Constitution."
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" "registration" is just another RINO inside the beltway stealth amnesty."
Showing posts with label LPRs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LPRs. Show all posts
Monday, April 19, 2010
Thursday, March 4, 2010
JG - Stranded - US denied Jamaican nurse passage from Haiti
From my archive of press clippings:
Jamaica Gleaner
Stranded - US denied Jamaican nurse passage from Haiti
Published: Sunday January 24, 2010
Daraine Luton, Staff Reporter
Port-au-Prince, Haiti:
A Jamaican nurse practitioner was yesturday denied passage to the United States when she attempted to leave Haiti.
Read the whole article here.
Snippet(s):
"Melissa Marballie, who has been the holder of a US green card since 2005, was turned back by US immigration when she attempted to return to the States where she has lived since 2000."
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""I was trying to go back to the States with the group but the United States won't allow me. They say that they have so many American citizens to evacuate and they don't have space for me," Marballie told The Sunday Gleaner.
She said that Haitians with US green cards were also turned back."
Jamaica Gleaner
Stranded - US denied Jamaican nurse passage from Haiti
Published: Sunday January 24, 2010
Daraine Luton, Staff Reporter
Port-au-Prince, Haiti:
A Jamaican nurse practitioner was yesturday denied passage to the United States when she attempted to leave Haiti.
Read the whole article here.
Snippet(s):
"Melissa Marballie, who has been the holder of a US green card since 2005, was turned back by US immigration when she attempted to return to the States where she has lived since 2000."
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""I was trying to go back to the States with the group but the United States won't allow me. They say that they have so many American citizens to evacuate and they don't have space for me," Marballie told The Sunday Gleaner.
She said that Haitians with US green cards were also turned back."
Monday, January 11, 2010
re: "Not just visas"
Digger at Life After Jerusalem ("The musings of a Two-Spirit American Indian, Public Diplomacy-coned Foreign Service Officer") deconstructs Joel Mowbray's piece in the Washington Times.
Money quote(s):
"(I)ssuing the visa was the appropriate decision. However, even had State revoked the visa the moment his father raised concerns, this would not have affected his ability to get onto the flight because he still had in his passport a visa that looked valid. Airlines don't have access to our visa records for understandable security reasons, and we don't have DHS agents at every overseas airport in the world. So the first place that it could have been noticed that his visa had been revoked would have been at the U.S. border. and his attack occurred long before that."
Which doesn't fit Mr. Mowbray's normal default position of finding State at fault.
"When I took con-gen (the training course for consular officers), I was told that for tourist visas you start at no. All applicants are to be presumed to be intending immigrants until they can prove otherwise."
Under Section 214(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (as amended), every applicant for a non-immigrant visa (NIV) must be considered to be an intending immigrant (and thus inelible to receive a non-immigrant visa) unless they convince the interviewing consular officer of their qualifications and non-immigrant bona fides. Period.
There are specific categories of NIV where this doesn't apply (such as fiancee visas for persons who're traveling to the U.S. in order to marry their U.S. citizen intended and who will adjust status to Legal Permanent Resident once the ink's dry on their marriage certificate), but for tourism and business travel it's square one.
"I think this is the default position for every officer working the visa window, especially those of us who joined after 9/11. Because no one wants to be part of letting that happen again. We all jumped through a lot of hoops to join the Foreign Service because we love this country and wanted to serve it."
Money quote(s):
"(I)ssuing the visa was the appropriate decision. However, even had State revoked the visa the moment his father raised concerns, this would not have affected his ability to get onto the flight because he still had in his passport a visa that looked valid. Airlines don't have access to our visa records for understandable security reasons, and we don't have DHS agents at every overseas airport in the world. So the first place that it could have been noticed that his visa had been revoked would have been at the U.S. border. and his attack occurred long before that."
Which doesn't fit Mr. Mowbray's normal default position of finding State at fault.
"When I took con-gen (the training course for consular officers), I was told that for tourist visas you start at no. All applicants are to be presumed to be intending immigrants until they can prove otherwise."
Under Section 214(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (as amended), every applicant for a non-immigrant visa (NIV) must be considered to be an intending immigrant (and thus inelible to receive a non-immigrant visa) unless they convince the interviewing consular officer of their qualifications and non-immigrant bona fides. Period.
There are specific categories of NIV where this doesn't apply (such as fiancee visas for persons who're traveling to the U.S. in order to marry their U.S. citizen intended and who will adjust status to Legal Permanent Resident once the ink's dry on their marriage certificate), but for tourism and business travel it's square one.
"I think this is the default position for every officer working the visa window, especially those of us who joined after 9/11. Because no one wants to be part of letting that happen again. We all jumped through a lot of hoops to join the Foreign Service because we love this country and wanted to serve it."
Monday, May 4, 2009
re: "Green Cards for the GITMO Gang?"
TSB at The Skeptical Bureaucrat ("Giving my fellow Americans the view from my cubicle") is wondering about certain soon-to-released Gitmo detainees.
Money quote(s):
"Exactly what legal status will these ex-detainees have if they are admitted? Can they qualify for Lawful Permanent Residence? If not, then what? "
Money quote(s):
"Exactly what legal status will these ex-detainees have if they are admitted? Can they qualify for Lawful Permanent Residence? If not, then what? "
Thursday, April 23, 2009
USA-T - It's time to prepare for new border crossing rules
From my archive of press clippings:
USA Today
It's time to prepare for new border crossing rules
By Bill McGee, special for USA TODAY
All borders are created equal. It may sound overly simplistic to point this out, but every day Americans who would never forget to bring proper documentation when traveling outside the country on a commercial airline flight or cruise ship attempt to drive or walk from Canada or Mexico without making the same provisions.
Read the whole article here.
Snippet(s):
"And starting on June 1, visiting some of our closest neighbors—including Bermuda and most Caribbean countries, as well as Canada and Mexico—will become much more complex with the implementation of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative. In fact, if you haven't applied for a passport yet, it may be time you give it serious thought."
"The new rules that kick in on June 1 will affect travel from 19 countries in all (see box at left), and many are nations that millions of Americans have been traveling to and from for years without carrying valid passports. But two months from now, new rules mandate that "most" U.S. citizens entering the country by land, sea, or air must establish both identity and citizenship and therefore must possess one of the following:
• passport
• passport card
• other travel document approved by the Department of Homeland Security
Those "other travel documents" include Lawful Permanent Resident Cards; certain Native American tribe member cards; North American trusted traveler program cards, such as NEXUS (Northern Border program), SENTRI (Southern Border program), or FAST (Free and Secure Trade program); military ID with official travel orders; U.S. Merchant Mariner Documents; or enhanced driver's licenses (EDLs). Currently, four border states—Arizona, New York, Vermont, and Washington—have announced EDL programs, which issue driver's licenses imbedded with security chips that will expedite crossings. "
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" NEVER give attitude to federal employees. Whether they represent Customs and Border Protection, Immigration, Agriculture, or any of the other agencies you may encounter at a border crossing, these folks should command the same respect as when you're trapped behind those heavy doors at an international airport's arrivals hall. (And consider for a moment how angry you'd be if they allowed a terrorist into the United States through a "side door" such as Canada or Mexico.)"
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Bill McGee, a contributing editor to Consumer Reports and the former editor of Consumer Reports Travel Letter, is an FAA-licensed aircraft dispatcher who worked in airline operations and management for several years. Tell him what you think of his latest column by sending him an e-mail at USATODAY.com at travel@usatoday. Include your name, hometown and daytime phone number, and he may use your feedback in a future column.
USA Today
It's time to prepare for new border crossing rules
By Bill McGee, special for USA TODAY
All borders are created equal. It may sound overly simplistic to point this out, but every day Americans who would never forget to bring proper documentation when traveling outside the country on a commercial airline flight or cruise ship attempt to drive or walk from Canada or Mexico without making the same provisions.
Read the whole article here.
Snippet(s):
"And starting on June 1, visiting some of our closest neighbors—including Bermuda and most Caribbean countries, as well as Canada and Mexico—will become much more complex with the implementation of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative. In fact, if you haven't applied for a passport yet, it may be time you give it serious thought."
"The new rules that kick in on June 1 will affect travel from 19 countries in all (see box at left), and many are nations that millions of Americans have been traveling to and from for years without carrying valid passports. But two months from now, new rules mandate that "most" U.S. citizens entering the country by land, sea, or air must establish both identity and citizenship and therefore must possess one of the following:
• passport
• passport card
• other travel document approved by the Department of Homeland Security
Those "other travel documents" include Lawful Permanent Resident Cards; certain Native American tribe member cards; North American trusted traveler program cards, such as NEXUS (Northern Border program), SENTRI (Southern Border program), or FAST (Free and Secure Trade program); military ID with official travel orders; U.S. Merchant Mariner Documents; or enhanced driver's licenses (EDLs). Currently, four border states—Arizona, New York, Vermont, and Washington—have announced EDL programs, which issue driver's licenses imbedded with security chips that will expedite crossings. "
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" NEVER give attitude to federal employees. Whether they represent Customs and Border Protection, Immigration, Agriculture, or any of the other agencies you may encounter at a border crossing, these folks should command the same respect as when you're trapped behind those heavy doors at an international airport's arrivals hall. (And consider for a moment how angry you'd be if they allowed a terrorist into the United States through a "side door" such as Canada or Mexico.)"
_____
Bill McGee, a contributing editor to Consumer Reports and the former editor of Consumer Reports Travel Letter, is an FAA-licensed aircraft dispatcher who worked in airline operations and management for several years. Tell him what you think of his latest column by sending him an e-mail at USATODAY.com at travel@usatoday. Include your name, hometown and daytime phone number, and he may use your feedback in a future column.
Saturday, March 14, 2009
PI - Fleeing to Philly: Thousands of Liberians seek asylum here
From my archive of press clippings:
Philadelphia Inquirer
Fleeing to Philly: Thousands of Liberians seek asylum here
Posted on Wed, Feb. 18, 2009
By STEPHANIE FARR
Philadelphia Daily News
farrs@phillynews.com 215-854-4225
During the 1800s, Americans of African descent moved in the thousands to Liberia, a West African country founded by freed slaves.
Read the whole article here.
Snippet(s):
"Between 1990 and 2009, 32,543 Liberian refugees were admitted nationwide, said David M. Santos, northeast regional media manager with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
By 2006, more Liberian refugees had resettled in the greater Philadelphia area than in any other metropolitan region in the country, according to a 2008 report from the Brookings Institute, a public-policy nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C."
"Refugees are given employment authorization and after a year are required to apply for lawful permanent-resident status, Santos said. Refugees are eligible for naturalization five years after they arrive in the United States.
In 2006, Liberia was taken off a U.S. Refugee Admission Program's list, which allows people to apply for refugee status if they have a parent, spouse or child in the United States."
Philadelphia Inquirer
Fleeing to Philly: Thousands of Liberians seek asylum here
Posted on Wed, Feb. 18, 2009
By STEPHANIE FARR
Philadelphia Daily News
farrs@phillynews.com 215-854-4225
During the 1800s, Americans of African descent moved in the thousands to Liberia, a West African country founded by freed slaves.
Read the whole article here.
Snippet(s):
"Between 1990 and 2009, 32,543 Liberian refugees were admitted nationwide, said David M. Santos, northeast regional media manager with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
By 2006, more Liberian refugees had resettled in the greater Philadelphia area than in any other metropolitan region in the country, according to a 2008 report from the Brookings Institute, a public-policy nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C."
"Refugees are given employment authorization and after a year are required to apply for lawful permanent-resident status, Santos said. Refugees are eligible for naturalization five years after they arrive in the United States.
In 2006, Liberia was taken off a U.S. Refugee Admission Program's list, which allows people to apply for refugee status if they have a parent, spouse or child in the United States."
Monday, March 2, 2009
SN - Ask the Consul
Stabroek News
Ask the Consul
By Stabroek staff February 26, 2009 in Daily, Features
Child Citizenship Act of 2000
Installment Seventy-Seven
The Child Citizenship Act of 2000 allows certain foreign-born, biological and adopted children of U.S. citizens to acquire U.S. citizenship automatically. These children did not acquire U.S. citizenship at birth, but they are granted citizenship when they enter the United States as lawful permanent residents (LPRs) in the legal care and physical custody of a U.S. citizen parent or parents.
Read the whole article here.
Ask the Consul
By Stabroek staff February 26, 2009 in Daily, Features
Child Citizenship Act of 2000
Installment Seventy-Seven
The Child Citizenship Act of 2000 allows certain foreign-born, biological and adopted children of U.S. citizens to acquire U.S. citizenship automatically. These children did not acquire U.S. citizenship at birth, but they are granted citizenship when they enter the United States as lawful permanent residents (LPRs) in the legal care and physical custody of a U.S. citizen parent or parents.
Read the whole article here.
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