On November 20, 2014 president Barack Obama announced his long awaited executive action on immigration, which will affect an estimated 5 million undocumented people currently living in the United States. While the president emphasized his actions don’t provide a path to citizenship the new executive rule allows the following: Undocumented parents of U.S. citizen and […]
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Sending a Relative Back to Syria Is Too Hard on Americans
Immigration law allows the government to cancel deportation of certain temporary residents if the resident has been in the U.S. continuously for ten years, has good moral character and has not been convicted of certain crimes. The resident, however, must show that his deportation will cause an exceptional and extremely unusual hardship on an American […]
Sponsorship of Foreign Gay Spouses
Sponsorship of foreign gay spouses became easier for gay Americans. Gay Americans living in states where gay marriage is not recognized can now sponsor a foreign spouse for U.S. citizenship if the same-sex couple was married in a state where gay marriage is recognized, according to new policies set forth by the United States Citizenship […]
