Sentences with phrase «for immigrant status»

The procedure is different for an immigrant status visa.

Race / ethnicity and English - language - learner (ELL) status are inadequate proxies for immigrant status, but this brief illustrates that students from immigrant families are a group that requires researchers», policy makers», and educators» attention.This brief draws on interviews conducted with 47 eighth grade students and 27 parents during the 2008 - 09 school year, including 25 students from immigrant families and 16 immigrant parents.

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The order is likely to grant legal status to nearly half of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the U.S., giving many access for the first time to legitimate work visas, or protection from deportation.

Namely, it can take a decade or more for highly trained workers or immigrant entrepreneurs who create fast - growth companies and jobs to get long - term work status and citizenship.

On Jan. 10, he offered to support a Democratic goal — providing legal status to some 800,000 young, undocumented immigrants under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — in exchange for money for the wall as part of down - to - the - wire negotiations for a short - term budget.

The delay would give Congress time to pass legislation that addresses the status of the estimated 800,000 immigrants covered by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or the DACA program.

Business organizations like the Chamber of Commerce have called for immigration reform, saying immigrants are good for the economy while advocating a tough but «fair process for undocumented people who are living in our country today to earn a legal status.»

According to a 2013 study by the social action group Center for American Progress, if the undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States were provided legal status, the 10 - year cumulative increase in the gross domestic product (GDP) would be $ 832 billion.

Responding to the worldwide backlash and disarray, the president invoked the country's historic status as a harbor for immigrants as a reason for his decision.

Allow H - 1B holders to change jobs without losing their visa status and being forced to leave the country immediately — a condition that enforces lower salaries for H - 1B holders and encourages skilled immigrant arbitrage and tech «body shop» abuses.

Justice Anthony Kennedy was the deciding vote in throwing out A) a requirement that police try to determine the immigration status of people they stop under suspicion of even minor crimes; B) a law that made it a crime for an illegal immigrant to seek employment; and C) a law that let police arrest a person without a warrant if they believed the person may have committed a crime that could lead to deportation.

Ms. Powell Jobs has become a leader in pushing for decade - old legislation known as the Dream Act, a measure that would provide legal status for immigrants who arrived in the country as young children.

He also objected that Democratic proposals to adjust the visa lottery and federal policy for immigrants with temporary protected status were going to drive more people from countries he deemed undesirable into the United States instead of attracting immigrants from places like Norway and Asia, people familiar with the meeting said.

Some labour force data is available for workers who self - identify as aboriginal (off - reserve only), and workers with landed immigrant status.

Navarro, 45, has been shielded from deportation through temporary protected status, a federal program for immigrants who were unable to return to their...

If these would - be immigrants aren't actually filling jobs for which out - of - work Canadians are available — as claimed — then why are they being denied the opportunity to gain permanent residency status?

On a press call this afternoon, a Honduran TPS holder living in Miami, Mayor Bauters of Emeryville, California, and Florida community leaders discussed the importance of extending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for the 57,000 Honduran immigrants currently protected under the... Continue reading»

America's Voice 56 Members of Congress Urge DHS Extend Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 57,000 Legal Honduran Immigrants Listen to the «A is for America» Podcast with Tania Chavez of LUPE ICYMI: The Guardian: Trump could end protected status for Hondurans — «condemning them to total misery» Republican AGs Attack Dreamers, Go Forum - Shopping for Anti-Immigrant... Continue reading&Status (TPS) for 57,000 Legal Honduran Immigrants Listen to the «A is for America» Podcast with Tania Chavez of LUPE ICYMI: The Guardian: Trump could end protected status for Hondurans — «condemning them to total misery» Republican AGs Attack Dreamers, Go Forum - Shopping for Anti-Immigrant... Continue reading&status for Hondurans — «condemning them to total misery» Republican AGs Attack Dreamers, Go Forum - Shopping for Anti-Immigrant... Continue reading»

America's Voice Frank Sharry y Juan Escalante reaccionan a la demanda de Ken Paxton sobre DACA, el más reciente ataque contra los Dreamers ICYMI: New York Daily News Op - Ed: Canceling protected status for Nepalese immigrants will devastate my family ICYMI: Politico PRO and Newsy Highlight the Urgency of Hondurans with Temporary Protected Status (TPS) Facing... Continue reading&status for Nepalese immigrants will devastate my family ICYMI: Politico PRO and Newsy Highlight the Urgency of Hondurans with Temporary Protected Status (TPS) Facing... Continue reading&Status (TPS) Facing... Continue reading»

Honduras TPS Decision Deadline: 5/4/2018, 2 Days As the Honduran Temporary Protected Status (TPS) deadline looms, both Politico PRO and Newsy highlight the fear of various Honduran TPS holders and immigration advocates who are speaking out to urge the Trump Administration to extend TPS for the 57,000 legal immigrants from Honduras.

The plan also broadens the requirements necessary for undocumented immigrants who were brought into the country as children, essentially granting legal status to hundreds of thousands more.

They point to her 2 - 1 margin with Latinos over Obama in the 2008 primary and the latest party platform, which calls for a path to citizenship «for law - abiding families who are here,» the end of immigration raids against children and families, due process for «those fleeing violence in Central America,» and to rescind statutory bans on immigrants who modify their status in the country.

He supports Obama's executive action granting temporary legal status to millions of illegal immigrants and the expansion of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

Before this week's news about protections for Salvadoran immigrants, the Department of Homeland Security announced in November that TPS status for Hondurans could end as soon as July, while TPS for Nicaraguans would end in January 2019.

Immigrants get no aid, whereas those with refugee status get airfare loans and are entitled to refugee assistance for one year after arrival.

In his acceptance speech for best director, Del Toro highlighted his status as an immigrant and encouraged the industry to «erase the lines in the sand.»

What we do know is that the association has been shown over and over again, in the USA and Europe, and appears to hold true even when accounting for access to healthcare, poverty and immigrant status.

Data available on the website of the Bureau of Consular Affairs of the US Department of State on immigrant number use for visa issuances and adjustments of status in the Diversity Immigrant Category provided the figures for 2005immigrant number use for visa issuances and adjustments of status in the Diversity Immigrant Category provided the figures for 2005Immigrant Category provided the figures for 2005 to 2014.

The long - looming deadline — March 5 — for youthful immigrant Dreamers facing loss of legal status under Obama - era DACA protection came and went yesterday with more of a whimper than a bang.

Assembly Democrats are backing measures that would give the entire state sanctuary status for immigrants.

This week, for the first time since I've been in the loop with them, they had a piece of Facebook - worthy visual content, in this case an infographic illustrating their key issue (the imprisonment of immigrants while they wait for a hearing on their status).

Or, for legal non-citizens, even use your real 4 digits - the state can not conclusively check someone's citizenship status based on just 4 digits of SSN and a name, especially for common names (just because your SSN 4 digits matched a non-citizen immigrant in INS's database, doesn't mean that was you.

At 5 p.m., the MinKwon Center for Community Action, DRUM, NYIC and Columbia County New Sanctuary Movement host action to demand that Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and Temporary Protected Status (TPS) are not dismantles and to «stop the decriminalization of all undocumented immigrants,» outside Trump Tower, 52nd and 5th avenues, Manhattan.

He would like to help pass the NY Liberty and DREAM Act, legislation that would give immigrants and their children resources for greater access to education, healthcare, and counsel in deportation proceedings, no matter their status.

These include equal protection regardless of immigration status, critical civil rights for immigrant students, and the mandate that the state provide health care and coverage to low - income and immigrant New Yorkers.

But the Trump administration has been committed to reining in both legal and illegal immigration, most notably by ending protections for 800,000 young undocumented immigrants, known as Dreamers, beginning in March unless Congress grants them legal status before then.

Mayor Bill de Blasio repeated his promises to preserve New York City's status as a haven for undocumented immigrants in the face of an imminent executive order from President Donald Trump aimed at punishing so - called «sanctuary cities» that refuse to cooperate with federal deportation efforts.

Mark - Viverito, a Puerto Rico native who recently shepherded through a resolution reaffirming the city's status as a haven for undocumented immigrants, would have none of it today.

The proposed law follows on an announcement this week by Brooklyn's acting district attorney, Eric Gonzalez, that his office would seek alternative prosecutions for immigrants that would not affect their immigration status.

The forum is scheduled for Thursday from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Prospect Park YMCA at 357 Ninth St. Topics to be discussed include temporary protected status, immigrants» rights and various services that are available to the community.

While she strongly praised the immigration action from the president — which will allow some 5 million undocumented immigrants to apply for legal status and avoid deportation — she said it does not mean New York City's work is done.

New York's new status as a «sanctuary» city means few illegal immigrants who break the law are being handed over to federal authorities for deportation.

I have no doubt that Schneiderman opposes capital punishment, supports New York's sanctuary status for illegal immigrants and endorses same - sex marriage.

While the call mostly covered plans to bring the Independent Democratic Conference (I.D.C.) back to the Senate's Democratic caucus, it eventually drifted into a discussion about fear that Wu's status as the son of immigrants could pose an unfortunate contrast in a New York Democratic primary with Hochul's positions on immigration, such as opposing driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants.

In November, in the immediate aftermath of the election, Sarsour blasted the assemblywoman — who is the daughter of Greek and Cuban immigrants — when she tweeted that the Council should focus «half as much effort on the citizens that actually elected them» in response to a tweet by City Council's account emphasizing New York City's status as a so - called «sanctuary city» for immigrants.

Schneiderman's office is among the state attorneys general suing to provide bolstered legal status for dreamers, undocumented immigrants who arrived in the United States as children who are in a state of legal limbo as the federal government determines the fate of the DACA program.

The heightened concern comes as Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday announced plans to create a legal defense fund for immigrants in New York, regardless of their status.

Mayor Bill de Blasio repeated his promises to preserve New York City's status as a haven for undocumented immigrants in the face of Trump's sanctuary cities executive order, calling the president's effort is «immoral.»

He was followed by actor Tony Lo Bianco, the evening's master of ceremonies who, before introducing Trump, articulated his own vision for Republicans, saying the country «must close the borders, and not with a fence that you can climb, over, or under,» and that while the nation debates the status of illegal immigrants, «droves more are coming in and taking whatever jobs there are.»

He has vowed to take legal action to protect the city's status as a so - called «sanctuary city» for undocumented immigrants and Trump's executive orders barring entry to people from Muslim - majority countries.