Immigration

23.4%

although it has been thourt that over the years the % has increased

Immigration laws vary by country, but in general an illegal alien is one who is not in a recognized immigration status in their host country. This can happen when the alien enters the country without permission, or enters with permission but does not leave when the time for their legal stay expires.

There are many types of legal status short of citizenship. Examples in the U.S.A. would include aliens visiting on tourist visas, aliens present on business or employment visas, and students and researchers visiting on education-based visas. These are all "legal" aliens.

It should also be noted that "illegal" and "criminal" are not strictly synonymous. Crossing the U.S. border illegally is a crime, while overstaying a visa is a civil rather than a criminal offense. A more commonplace example of this legal distinction would be the difference between say double parking and driving under the influence of alcohol. Both are illegal, but only the latter is criminal (laws in your jurisdiction may vary).

It depends on what type of illegal you are. There are 2 types: 1) entry without inspection (a person sneeking across the border) and 2) overstay (entry into the U.S, was legal but the stay became illegal (i.e. staying in the U.S. after tourist visa expires)

Only the 2nd type of illegal can become legal, and then ONLY IF the spouse is a citizen. The citizen spouse would need to file a I-130 and I-485 petition for you.

Actually, there is a way for the first type of illegal to ATTEMPT legal status (unlike the second type where a green card is a sure thing (baring anything negative in the immigrant's background). The illegal would need to return to his country of origin and try to get a I-601 waiver by showing extreme hardship to his citizen spouse. The drawback is that if it is denied, the illegal must stay in that country and can be prevented from entry for either 3 or 10 years. The other way is for the illegal to surrender to ICE and attempt a cancellation of removal (deportation). The drawback to this is if the waiver is denied, the illegal will be deported, and the deportation itself might bar him from any future entry into the U.S.

If you have the national passport (blue cover), you do not need a visa. Those Israelis who have a Travel Document in Lieu of National Passport (red cover) require visas.

Source: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/visit/visas.asp

old Chinese immigrants were chredied worse because they were old

They can certainly APPLY for one, but whether they'd get it depends upon what they'd been deported from the US for. If it was for suspected involvement in terrorism, involvement in organised crime or the drugs trade, or anything that could pose a danger to the public, then they probably would have their application refused.

If, however, it was for being an illegal immigrant to the US an asylum seeker, or for something like financial fraud or buisness crime which they had already been penalised for, then they'd have a better chance of their application being considered.

5 million

Democrats are usually considered to the left of Republicans, although this generally only comes down to a difference in rhetoric. Generally, there is not much difference between the two parties in practice.

NO you are NOT an automatic PR just because you got married.

http://www.immi.gov.au/migrants/family/partner-inside.htm

Assuming you want to be in Australia with your spouse - you will need to apply for this visa.
http://www.immi.gov.au/migrants/family/same-sex-changes.htm
And this is how you know if you are eligible.
http://www.immi.gov.au/migrants/family/same-sex-changes.htm

This means your spouse MUST have a job or income of some sort as he will be supporting you. You cannot work and you will NOT be a permanent resident. You will only be a visitor and you will STAY a visitor for 2 years and you CANNOT WORK OR STUDY during this time. Your life will be on hold until you are granted or refused permanent residency.

Your marriage has to be at least 2 years old before you can be granted permanent residency. So you will be visiting Australia temporarily for those 2 years while you get to know your spouse and your marriage either works or falls apart.

Being a visitor means no working, no studying, maybe medicare or not (I dont know for sure). Make sure you have a HOBBY you can do to fill in the time when you are not cleaning the apartment or doing his laundry or cooking his dinner. He must be working or have an income because HIS money will be paying for the both of you for two years.

USA has the same rule. Marriages less than 2 years old only get a temporary green card and they dont become eligible for a permanent green card until after their 2 year anniversary.

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(this is in the discussion as well)

I am a US citizen who has married an Australian citizen. I do not think that the first answer was accurate. Once you marry your partner, you can apply for permanent residency right away (this cost use about $2000) - subclass 801, spouse visa. You will then go onto a Temporary Residency Visa, which entitles you to medicare and to be able to work in Australia. You will NOT have to put your life on hold, you CAN work and be entitled to medicare. You can also study if you want (international rates).


During this time you must have "Assurance of Support" from Australian citizens. In my case, my husband and I were studying and didn't have jobs, so my mother in law co-signed with my husband to support me during the two years that I won't have access to benefits (pensions, dole). Your husband does NOT have to have a job or income for you to pass this requirement.


After two years on a temporary residency visa, given that your permanent residency application was approved, you will be a permanent resident! Then you can apply for cheaper study and centrelink benefits.


Once you have been a resident in Australia for at least 4 years (1 year must have been as a permanent resident), you can apply for citizenship.


This is how I have experienced the process. I think there is a lot of inaccurate information in the first answer. You certainly do not have to put your life on hold waiting for a permanent residency visa, you definitely can work and study. Your husband also does not have to have a job or income, you just need family members or someone who is Australian to promise to pay the government for any financial support you may need while on a temporary visa.

they get blowed in the butt

I think who ever wrote this is an jerk, and is speaking from experiance. P.s get a job and stop anwsering questions you don't know the answer to.You loser....

If the alien entered US with inspection and became illegal later, then 3 months. If you don't get it in 3 months, set up an appointment to go to the local CIS office and show them the receipt, they will give it to you that day.

If the alien entered illegally whtouth inspection, no right to get a work authorization, and will not get a green card even if married to a US citizen.

If the alien entered illegally, the alien must wait until 245(i) provision gets revived. Current political climate is very conservative. And so, 245(i) is unpopular now. President Bush said "Those who broke our law should not be awarded with green card." He said that even if that law is revived by Congress, he will veto it. So no 245(i) for now. Wait until the President leaves office, and wait more until Congress passes the 245(i) and hope that the next president does not veto 245(i).

if you have family living over there already then yess. if you get married to someone over there then yess. but you cant just randomly become one, and if you can it would cost alot and also, be a ver hard progress, i hope this helped you.

I married a Mexican citizen in Mexico and I am a US citizen, and we currently live in Mexico. You can only live in Mexico for the time they alloted on your white paper when you entered the country, usually it is 90-180 days. During that time you should apply for a FM2 at the immigration office. An FM2 is a visa that allows you to live in Mexico. You would qualify for it because you are married to a Mexican citizen. An FM2 is good for as long as you want provided you renew it every year and you can become a citizen after having it for 2 years. FM2 allows you do live and participate as a Mexican citizen would. I currenlty have an FM3, which is a working visa. I got it through my employer. If you want to work in Mexico you could get an FM3 and that would also allow you to stay in Mexico, but it needs to be renewed every year. Good luck and I hope that this helps a little.

It is possible to get a passport to Jamaica with a felony. However, an individual must not be a convicted international drug trafficker, subject to federal arrest or felony-related subpoena, or forbid by a court order, or parole to travel internationally.

One would apply for a travel visa through that country's consulate or embassy, or directly with their government body overseeing immigration. The exact procedures, rules, restrictions, fees and processing times differ from nation to nation and in some cases between different types or classes of travel visas, so it is best to contact the desired country's offices directly in order to obtain more information.

I would advise that they return home and attempt to seek immigration to the US through the legal alien immigration office and allow their alien ambassador to get them an alien American greencard.

The non citizen spouse will be allowed to file for an adjustment of status. If it is not granted the non citizen spouse will still be allowed to use the established appeal process, he or she WILL NOT be automatically deported.

A green card holder after staying outside US for more than a year can enter US again using a reentry permit. This permit should have been approved before leaving US.The reentry permit got by filing immigration Form I-131 is valid for 2 years.

It is the act in which the time to become a U.S citizen is decreased; at the time it was mainly to keep away the Irish and the French.

Yes. I heard that people can renounce their US citizenship legally. I do not think that many people have done it, but it's possible. Yes, you can have no citizenship. This usually occurs when you or your country decides to revoke your citizenship. In that case you become "A person without a country"! In practice, renouncing your U.S. citizenship without being a citizen of another country is difficult. During the 1950s and 1960s quite a few people tried it, including the mathematician John Nash (the movie A Beautiful Mind is based loosely on his life.) Nash would go to the American Embassy in Switzerland or France and renounce his citizenship, becasue he didn't approve of US politics, expecially nuclear arms. In some instances he was jailed, and in all cases he was deported back to the U.S., on a new passport issued by the U.S. embassy at the host country's request. The world is not really set up to have citizens who are countryless, unless you are a political refugee. There are many stateless persons in the world. The most common reason for being stateless is that one has been arbitrarily stripped (deprived) of citizenship by a dictatorship. If stateless persons give birth to children then they too may be stateless, unless they are born in a country where the country of birth confers citizenship, as in the U.S. (and more generally in the Americas). In Europe, for example, children take the citizenship of their parent(s). In some countries, stateless persons who have the status of refugees, enjoy some international protection from their country of residence, which can also issue them with a 'stateless person's passport'. However, being stateless is an unenviable status.

Children who are born in the US to US Parents will automatically become US Citizens by birth. If they are born outside the US also they can get their citizenship status through their parents.

The US doesn't have any prohibition against it, however consider the fact that the the British authorities may choose to bar you from entering their country. Check with the British Consulate or Embassy.

Hello, I did just that! When you marry a Brazilian you must either do one of two things:

1.st Apply for permentent residence status for your partner and that can take 6-8 months this must be done in brazil. via the embassy. once the residency papers have been complteted and you have them, your partner is now free to come and go in and out of canada.

2. Apply for holiday visa upon arriving in canada, proceed to apply for the permenant residency in Canada. ( will take 6-8 months ) note do not tell the immigration officials that you are going to apply for residency as they will make you do it in Brazil. as well while applying if it takes more than 6 months and your tourist visa runs out, you will need to get it extended!

Hope this help!

In general, non-citizens are eligible for Medicaid only for short-term emergency care for a life-threatening condition. They must meet all the other factors of eligibility that a citizen must meet.