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[Jenifer Griffard]

Formany this week, the unthinkable and unexpected became a political reality with the election of Donald Trump. If anyone was wondering if the tough rhetoric during the campaign would be relaxed after the election, the selection of Senator Jeff Sessions as the next attorney general, should remove any doubt. Senator Sessions was the chief advisor to Donald Trump on immigration matters during the presidential campaign.

Marriage to a permanent resident does not qualify as an immediate relative but rather falls into to Category F2A. The Department of State priority date for Category F2A is January 22, 2015 which means that that a permanent resident who applied for the spouse on January 22, 2015 may adjust for the immigrant spouse in November, 2016, a wait of approximately of twenty two months.

Getting married to a lawful permanent U.S. resident (rather than a citizen) will also technically make you eligible for a U.S. green card, but because you face a long wait before a visa becomes available to you, your chances of adjusting status are even less (unless you fit one of the two 245(i): exceptions described above).

This may be an uncommon option. Nevertheless, undocumented immigrants who have served in the Gulf War and the War in Iraq and Afghanistan may become U.S. citizens without first becoming U.S. residents. Approximately 53,000 immigrants since September 11th have taken advantage of the opportunity were eligible for naturalization under the special wartime naturalization act. This provision would also include military members with DACA.

Asylum allows a petitioner to include family members as derivative beneficiaries whereas WOR requires each family member to be able to demonstrate a fear of persecution personally. WOR is mandatory for the immigration judge is the petitioner meets the requirements whereas the immigration has discretion in regard to a grant of asylum.

WOR also provides an exception to the bar on asylum for petitioners convicted of an aggravated felonies. Examples of aggravated felonies include a conviction of drug trafficking, document fraud with a sentence of at least one year imposed, alien smuggling, a crime of violence or theft or burglary with a sentence of at least one year imposed, child molestation, money laundering and murder.

The applicant is not required to show a nexus: unlike with asylum or withholding of removal, the torture that the applicant fears does not need to be inflicted on account of race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group. Instead, protection under CAT focuses on the nature, purpose, and agent of the feared torture.

The memo established three priority categories for removal. Priority 1 threats represent threats to national security, border security, and public safety. Priority 2 related to misdemeanants and new immigration violators. The accumulation of three misdemeanors other than traffic violations would constitute Priority 2 status. Priority 3 aliens are those who have been issued a final order of removal on or after January 1, 2014.

Traditional thinking within immigration practice has been not to place an undocumented client at risk for removal. However, in the current political environment, the ability to remain in the shadows from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) may be short-lived as immigration reform looms beyond the presidential election. Some attorneys have taken steps to attempt to place clients that would be good candidates for Prosecutorial Discretion, i.e. they are not Priority 1, Priority 2, or Priority 3, designees under the DHS guidelines, for Prosecutorial Discretion. In some cases, attorneys have filed frivolous applications for immigrations benefits such as asylum knowing that their clients would not be granted benefits, solely for the hope that ICE would issue a Notice to Appear (NTA) for immigration court commence deportation proceedings.

In my view, immigrants out of status need to identify any potential remedy against removal or pathway to residency. The immigration courts in many large metropolitan areas already face significant backloads. An asylum case can take 3-5 years for the case in chief along with appeals. My estimate that the problem of court backlogs is likely to become significantly worse very quickly. When you consider the availability of employment authorization during this process, immigration remedies such as asylum, withholding of removal and CAT, may have the alterative effect of providing legal work authorization and a stay of removal. In the midst of the backlog, U.S. citizen children may reach their twenty first birthday and become eligible in order to sponsor their out-of-status parents.

Nao deixe o Samba Morrer, is a reminder to the immigrant in illegal status, to not let their American Dream die. Seize the initiative to explore the options as the tide of immigration reform rolls in.

DISCLAIMER: Because of the generality of this update, the information provided herein may not be applicable in all situations and should not be acted upon without specific legal advice based on particular situations. Attorney Advertising.

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A conselleira de Poltica Social e Igualdade, Fabiola Garca, lamentou que a prrroga dos Orzamentos Xerais do Estado deixe a Galicia sen 50 millns de euros en materia de dependencia o vindeiro ano. Fxoo durante unha interpelacin no Parlamento de Galicia na que sinalou que o Goberno central segue sen cumprir coa Lei de Dependencia que lle obriga a cofinanciar o 50% da atencin.

A conselleira puntualizou que nestes momentos o Goberno galego segue a asumir o 70% do gasto total e sinalou que se contina a apostar por crear axudas pioneiras e nicas en toda Espaa. Neste sentido, afirmou que Galicia superou este ano a cifra dos 73.900 depedentes atendidos gracias a posta en marcha de medidas como o Bono Coidado no Fogar, que ofrece axudas universais a todas as persoas que estn sendo coidadas nas sas casas, independentemente do grao de dependencia ou situacin econmica.

A este respecto, Fabiola Garca recalcou que desde o mes de xaneiro 18.000 galegos con dependencia que estn sendo atendidos nos seus fogares estn a beneficiarse desta prestacin. Unha axuda que o Goberno galego destina un orzamento de 100 millns de euros neste ano 2024 e que nica en Espaa, ningunha outra comunidade impulsa unha axuda deste tipo para todos os graos ou situacin econmica.

A conselleira apuntou que, deste xeito, tamn se alivian moitos trmites burocrticos de persoas con dependencia que solicitan unha revisin do seu grao por agravamento da sa situacin. Co Bono Coidado no Fogar todas as persoas recibirn o 100% da prestacin de xeito que non ser necesario que se actualice o seu estado cada certo tempo. As mesmo, resaltou que a Xunta seguir apostando por renovar o sistema de atencin para que sexa mis accesible, xil e atenda s preferencias das persoas con dependencia.

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