Ahead Of Executive Action, Immigrant Families Celebrate Holidays

Pharr, TX -- When Estefania Arriazola, 21, and her family in Edinburgh, Texas sit down for their traditional dinner of tamales and hot chocolate, her family's prayer of thanks will include a special thank you that her parents will soon be able to apply for driver's licenses, visit an uncle in Corpus Christi and apply for better jobs to pay her mother's medical bills.

In the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, families like the Arriazolas who have been "living in the shadows" but who qualify under President Barack Obama's upcoming executive action on immigration say it is a very special Christmas.

Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/ahead-executive-action-immigrant-families-celebrate-holidays-n273261

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Israelis still a long way from US visa waiver

A bill extending strategic cooperation between Israel and the US will in practice still leave Israelis queueing for US visas.

A bill to extend cooperation between Israel and the US, and which describes Israel as "an important strategic partner" of Washington and establishes the right of Israeli citizens to enter the US without a visa, yesterday passed its last hurdle in Congress when the House of Representatives approved it unanimously. The Senate passed the bill in September, and it will be sent to the president for his signature soon,

 Read more: http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-us-embassy-in-tel-aviv-long-way-to-revolution-1000991309

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If original DACA program is a guide, many eligible immigrants will apply for deportation relief

About 4 million unauthorized immigrants are eligible for temporary deportation relief under President Obama’s new executive action, but how many will take advantage of the offer? A previous program may offer some insights. One way immigrants may qualify for relief is under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which started in 2012 and is now expanding. In that program, applications surged after the program’s launch and trailed off over time. Today, nearly two-thirds (64%) of the estimated 1.1 million unauthorized immigrants who are eligible have had their applications accepted for review. . Read more: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/12/05/if-original-daca-program-is-a-guide-many-eligible-immigrants-will-apply-for-deportation-relief/

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Study: improved tourist visa laws would add billions in revenue and thousands of jobs within five years

Improved tourist visa laws would add more than $7.5 billion in U.S. revenue and create 50,000 U.S. jobs within five years, according to a report released Monday by The Partnership for a New American Economy.

The report, “Passport to Future Economic Growth: How Expanding the Visa Waiver Program Will Strengthen the U.S. Economy and Create American Tourism Jobs,” found that when a country joins the U.S. Visa Waiver Program, the United States sees a notable increase in the number of tourists from that country in the immediate years that follow. Over the course of its first five years in the program, the number of tourists arriving from a participating country rises by 16.4 percent.

According to the study, if six countries — Brazil, Hong Kong, Turkey, Israel, South Africa, and Poland — were to gain entry into the Visa Waiver Program in 2015, more than 600,000 additional travelers from those countries would visit America in the following year. And between 2015 and 2019, an estimated 1.7 million more residents of those countries would visit the United States than otherwise would have otherwise. Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/article4496612.html

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Fiance Visas Keeping You Together

If you are confused as to when you need to apply for fiance visa  there are a couple of questions you should ask yourself that will lead to an easy answer. The first question is do you have a foreign national that you are in love with that resides in a country outside the United States?

The second one is do you want to marry that individual and make them your spouse? If the answer to both of those questions is yes then you need a fiance visa.

Too often either through ignorance or a misguided sense of thinking they are smarter than the system people that fall in love with individuals from foreign countries apply for the wrong type of visas, and are then surprised when the results are disastrous. If you think you are the first one who believes they will just get a tourist visa, or a work visa, or a student visa rest assured that you are not even the first person who has had that thought this week. Read more: http://blogs.siliconindia.com/latestnewstoday/Business/Fiance-Visas-Keeping-You-Together-bid-QF82TaEI24913007.html

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January 2015 Visa Bulletin: Some Good News, But Executive Action Benefits Cannot Come Soon Enough

The Department of State’s (DOS) January Visa Bulletin brings some New Years cheer for China and “All Other Countries” designations indicating that that the EB-3 subcategory for professionals and skilled workers will advance by nine months for China, from June 1, 2010 to March 1, 2011, and seven months for “All Other Countries,” from November 1, 2012 to June 1, 2013.  Unfortunately, the EB-3 category for India continues to wallow in a mire of retrogression advancing only two weeks, from December 1, 2003 to December 15, 2003.

The EB-2 category offers little in the way of good reading with China advancing only a month, from January 1, 2010 to February 1, 2010, and India seeing no change from last month’s Bulletin, staying put at February 15, 2005.  The EB-2 category remains “current” for “All Other Countries.”  The EB-5 category remains current for now, but is expected to change in the second half of the fiscal year. Read more: http://www.natlawreview.com/article/january-2015-visa-bulletin-some-good-news-executive-action-benefits-cannot-come-soon

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Immigration Reform 2014: Obama Defends Illegal Immigrant Policy In Diverse Nashville

President Barack Obama will speak at a Nashville, Tennessee, social service center Tuesday to defend his executive action that granted temporary work status to millions of illegal immigrants in November. There are approximately 130,000 illegal immigrants in Tennessee, 40,000 of which are eligible to be protected from deportation under Obama’s order, according to Pew Research.
“With the number of foreign-born residents more than doubling over the past decade, Nashville has actively worked to welcome new Americans,” White House press secretary Josh Earnest said ahead of the trip, according to The Tennessean. “Through community-based programs and government initiatives, the city is empowering and engaging New American community leaders. And the city’s actions are paying off.”  Read more: http://www.ibtimes.com/immigration-reform-2014-obama-defends-illegal-immigrant-policy-diverse-nashville-1744978

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On Immigration, a Huge Job Ahead

There is an immigration crisis looming, but it’s not at the border. It will be hitting in offices and courtrooms, and be measured in mountains of paper and strained bank accounts, in long lines and delays. It will be caused by the critical shortage of lawyers and other legal assistance for families navigating the immigration bureaucracy and justice system.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/03/opinion/on-immigration-a-huge-job-ahead.html 

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The complicated rules of citizenship

 To Americans, the rules of citizenship can seem simple: You're a member of this nation either by birth or naturalization. But centuries of debate over how citizenship can be acquired and lost show that the concept is not simple at all. This is especially true of birthright citizenship, the rule that confers membership on children born here regardless of whether their parents are documented.

Until the Civil War — and the Dred Scott decision that helped precipitate it by denying citizenship even to former slaves in free territory — the United States managed to finesse a definition of national citizenship. The founders and their descendants avoided the hard political, moral and legal questions about membership posed by Indians, slaves and black freemen. The Constitution used the term “citizen” but did not define it. State citizenship law sufficed. Read more: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-schuck-citizenship-birthright-immigration-20141123-story.html

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Obama's immigration order is no free ride for undocumented

San Diego (CNN) -- President Obama's critics have the right to be upset by his decision to shield from deportation, at least temporarily, some groups of undocumented immigrants. But they don't have the right to twist the facts, use inflammatory language and create confusion.

They're the ones who are most confused. They don't appear to have the foggiest idea how the process would work. That's their own fault. They should have paid closer attention two years ago, the last time the administration did something like this, with the program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. Read more at: http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/30/opinion/navarrette-dapa-gop-doesnt-get-it/

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