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The importance of U.S. citizenship.
If there is one thing I emphasize to my clients who recently lawful permanent residency, how important it is to become a U.S. citizen if he or she intends to stay in the United States. I have a lot of calls from interested parties who are long time permanent resident, that turns into a little trouble and are at risk of being deported from the only home they have known for decades and separated from their children and spouses.
The reason why I make sure my customers are, on this issue, even if only to permanent residents is that you, as residents have far fewer rights than a U.S. citizen. In fact, with the exception of the fundamental rights of due process under the U.S. Constitution's lives in the United States is justified by the political wind is blowing through Washington DC at a particular time and change frequently.
The provisions of the 1996 bill IIRAIRA have devastating effects on many lawful permanent residents and their families by the removal of relief organizations and creating new grounds for removal, which retroactively. In other words, legitimate inhabitants were (and are) be removed for acts they committed, or at least that they are obliged, under a plea agreement years.
The perfect example is HR4437 by the House of Representatives last year. This bill makes ridiculously hard not only an "aggravated" crime "in the United States without status (either you have entered illegally or you fell from status at a certain time) it also makes anyone who supports a person who is here without status of a felon will be tightened. This is not just for the smugglers, as the bill has a separate penalties for those who support the status of undocumented or for profit. This law also applies to family members, clergy, lawyers, people who do something (probably anything other than the language of the bill is very broad) that causes the individual to stay in the United States, while the status .
As a mixed status families (families with undocumented members and some members who are legally in the U.S.), this could lead to a situation where not only the workers are undocumented from the United States, but the family members who permanently reside with and an aggravated crime, in the distance. For loads with a Felony aggravated may preclude a member of the family from which any relief from removal and can be removed, no matter how long they were in the United States.
On the other hand, a U.S. citizen can not be removed from the United States (and probably would be, the prosecution as a felon, but it is not clear how much of a realistic threat), and that is the reason why it is important to pursue naturalization if you are eligible and if you intend to remain in the United States. Especially in the kind of anti-immigrant climate we see today.
Justin G. Randolph has been practicing immigration law since 2001. As a student at the DePaul University College of Law in the late 1990s, immigration law, he took courses from experts in the field. A clinical course asylum DePaul him his first practical experience in life or death of immigration cases.
After studying law, Justin worked for a boutique immigration firm, where he covers a wide range of immigration issues. The law firm of Justin G. Randolph opened in 2004 and dealt with immigration and deportation / removal cases for clients throughout the world.
In addition to his practice, Justin has been teaching immigration law and procedure since 2007 for students in the paralegal program Wright College. NOTE: No attorney / client relationship is through the presentation or the display in this article. This article is not intended as a substitute for legal advice from a licensed attorney. The facts of each case are different and individual counseling should be reviewed by an attorney before proceeding with any case.
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