US Green card and Naturalization, a long road home for some

GradSiren Team
GradSiren
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3 min readOct 3, 2018

The New reformatory regulation of US Immigration deeply hinders the process of naturalization of around 7 Lakhs of immigrant USA residents to get absolved into USA as citizens by getting a green card. The alleged proposal being addressed by the white house states some key areas of the proposal that are very detrimental to Immigrant Working class in USA seeking naturalization into USA in the coming years. According to several USA attorneys and legal experts the proposal in a way hampers all the Immigrants who have already availing Government facilities like Obama care, Social security insurance fund, Health care reimbursements from Government , Welfare programs etc. So an immigrant if being benefited by these kind of government benefits would now as per this proposal face low points in citizenship processing. Hence this proposal makes even more difficult for legal immigrants to become citizens in USA if these are implemented.

Though the details of the entire draft are yet to be finalized and needs more official sign offs , the apparent proposal key note are more challenging for the sited possibilities of legal immigrants in getting a smooth citizenship transformation in USA in future.

As the F1 Visa Students who seek to build their career prospects in USA increase , H1B Visa holders being stacking up for citizenship and naturalization in USA. There is a huge volume of Immigrant candidates and their families get directly and indirectly by this move. A research report sites this number to be around 20 Million individuals and the number is growing. This would be very challenging also for those already making a career in USA and are at the verge of getting processed for citizenship as their statuesque would be disturbed.

Though the sited model of plan was in a way already in vogue in USA for Citizenship entitlement the recent issue would be with the situation where the criterion parameters that would define the poverty line capacity of an individual is brought down drastically making slimmer chances as per the new rule .

Sources say that this new schedule of rules would be in force after the proposal is signed off , which is apparel likely by coming February .However some independent surveys and reports state that already the gradual decline of immigration petitions is at 20% rate and is growing bigger as the updates from the offices increasing .

What US government have to say about these changes

The US immigration and naturalization services office states that this areas of policy are implemented to help immigration legalities with best enforcement and nationally fruitful benefits. The USCIS offices reiterates that the implementation of such reforms in Immigration law is needed to safeguard the average American Taxpayer by making sure that any foreign nationalist resigning in USA or continue to depend on US would be positively self-sufficient and is not a potential liability to the National resource capital. According to the office only this would safeguard the national financial and resource decorum for future development in a sustainable way.

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