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Summary of Immigration Reform proposal

Apr. 29, 2010

On April 29th, Congressional Senators Reid, Schumer and Menendez released an outline of a Comprehensive Immigration Reform proposal called “Real Enforcement with Practical Answers for Immigration Reform” (REPAIR) Act to repair the nation’s broken immigration system. The full Immigration Reform Bill is expected to be formally introduced shortly. Some of the highlights of the immigration-related provisions include: family-immigration backlog reduction, reclassification of spouses and children of Green Card holders as “Immediate relatives”, Permanent partners of U.S. citizens and Green Card holders, Green Cards for some foreign students with advanced degrees from U.S. universities.


CONTENTS:

I. Achieving Operational Control of America’s Borders to Prevent Future Illegal Immigration

II. Detection, Apprehension, and Removal of Unlawfully Present Persons in the United States

III. Ending Illegal Employment through Biometric Employment Verification

IV. Reforming America’s Legal Immigration System to Maximize American Economic Prosperity

V. Mandatory Registration, Acceptance of Responsibility, and Administration of Punishment for Unauthorized Aliens Presently in the United States

VI. Reforms to Enhance Efficiency and Effectiveness in America’s Immigration System

Read here: AILA’s summary of immigration reform proposal (pdf.)

George P. Mann & Associates PC | Michigan immigration lawyers| is a law firm based in Farmington Hills representing clients throughout Michigan, the United States and around the globe. With a multilingual staff fluent in Spanish, Romanian, Russian, Albanian, Hungarian, French, Italian and Latvian, we assist clients in obtaining green cards based on family, employment or asylum/refugee petitions, other types of green cards, and any non-immigrant visas (e.g. B-Visitor, H-1B-specialty occupations, H-2A agricultural workers, F-student, E-investor, L-Intra company transferees, R-religious workers, TN – Canadian and Mexican professionals, K1 – fiancée, or K3- spouse). The firm is also known for representing clients in some of the most complex deportation cases and 601 waiver applications. Most of our clients come from Michigan communities such as Detroit, Dearborn, Southfield, Sterling Heights, Troy, Warren, Flint, Lansing, East Lansing, Okemos, Mount Clemens, Monroe, Jackson, Battle Creek, Kalamazoo, Benton Harbor, Grand Rapids, Holland and Muskegon.

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