Obama Immigration Reform Plan within 8 years

[christianpaul]

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House is circulating a draft immigration bill that would create a new visa for illegal immigrants living in the United States and allow them to become legal permanent residents within eight years, according to a report published online Saturday by USA Today.
President Barack Obama's bill would create a "Lawful Prospective Immigrant" visa for the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants living in the United States. The bill includes more security funding and requires business owners to adopt a system for verifying the immigration status of new hires within four years, the newspaper said.
USA Today reported that the bill would require that immigrants pass a criminal background check, submit biometric information and pay fees to qualify for the new visa. Immigrants who served more than a year in prison for a criminal conviction or were convicted of three or more crimes and were sentenced to a total of 90 days in jail would not be eligible. Crimes committed in other countries that would bar immigrants from legally entering the country would also be ineligible.
Those immigrants facing deportation would be eligible to apply for the visa, the newspaper reported. Immigrants would be eligible to apply for a green card within eight years, if they learn English and U.S. history and government, and they would later be eligible to become U.S. citizens.
Last month a bipartisan group of senators announced they had agreed on the general outline of an immigration plan. For his part, Obama has said he would not submit his own legislation to Congress so long as law makers acted "in a timely manner." If they failed, he said, "I will send up a bill based on my proposal and insist that they vote on it right away."
Clark Stevens, a White House spokesman, said Saturday that Obama still supports a bipartisan effort to craft a comprehensive immigration bill. "While the president has made clear he will move forward if Congress fails to act, progress continues to be made and the administration has not prepared a final bill to submit," he said in a statement.
Sen. Marco Rubio, the Florida Republican who has been crafting immigration legislation, derided the draft bill as described by the newspaper as "half-baked and seriously flawed" and said it was disappointing because it repeats what he called failures of past legislation. He also said the White House had erred in not seeking input from Republican lawmakers.
"If actually proposed, the president's bill would be dead on arrival in Congress, leaving us with unsecured borders and a broken legal immigration system for years to come," Rubio said in a statement.
Ali Noorani, executive director of the National Immigration Forum, described the draft bill as a "very moderate" proposal. While the path to citizenship was welcomed by Noorani, he said not enough attention was being paid to future immigration.
"Commonsense immigration reform must include a functioning immigration system for the future," Noorani said in a statement. "Reform does not begin and end with citizenship and enforcement alone."


Naa koy pangutana guys..

Immigrants would be eligible to apply for a green card within eight years,---

unsay take ninyo ani mga istoryans kay naglibog jud ko ani nga sentence..
within 8 years- pasabot ba nga hatagan rakag 8 years para mo apply sa green card or mo huwat pakag 8 years para maka green card?
kung hatagan rakag within 8 years para mo apply sa green card, naa bai chance nga dali ra makuha imong green card?
please mga istoryans I need your clarifications ug inyong opinions

[Bentleys]

Bad news for the TNT's,
more protection for those who inadvertently
harbored them, or who are acting like one.

[christianpaul]

Bad news for the TNT's,
more protection for those who inadvertently
harbored them, or who are acting like one.

nganong bad news sa mga TNT?gawas kung naa silay gibuhat nga crime

[cebu_doki]

within 8 years- pasabot ba nga hatagan rakag 8 years para mo apply sa green card or mo huwat pakag 8 years para maka green card?

my comment : if the person illegally stayed, the person can apply for immigrant special status as envision by Pres OBAMA. and have to be within 8yrs before the visa is issued to the applicant. provided that upon application no criminal record and imprisonment in USA and place of origin. also it is expected that within the waiting of 8yrs release of visa no crime committed that would necessitate more than total of 90days prison service. if such is present, person is disqualified.

naa bai chance nga dali ra makuha imong green card?

my comment : dugay gyud kay 8yrs gud wait ka. but the applicant can go back to place of origin and back because your papers been process

it is unlike previous reagan and clinton administration, which they have amnesty. a direct and immediate release of visa status.

i think this kind is income generating also for the US govt from the registration fees payment, income tax etc.