Current law allows H-1B employers to sponsor H-1B workers, their spouses, and minor children for green cards or legal permanent residency. The green card waits for these workers are decades long (see here for a detailed explanation of that problem), so the law also allows H-1Bs waiting for a green card to extend their status and the status of their spouses and minor children indefinitely while they all wait for green cards. But despite having waited in line for many years, children of H-1B workers still lose their status as soon as they turn 21. Those who don\u2019t self-deport then become foreign students, which provides temporary status but they cannot work and lose status again as soon as they graduate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Which means that, if \u201cDreamers\u201d \u2014 the children of illegal immigrants \u2014 are given residency but this group is not, then there is a clear rewarding of illegal actions vs. trying to follow the rules, and a clear hypocrisy, since the same rationale that applies to the \u201cDreamers\u201d also applies to the sons and daughters of H-1B prospective-green card immigrants.\u00a0 On the other hand, if you say, \u201cthey knew what they were getting into and shouldn\u2019t have any reason to expect to gain residency,\u201d then that\u2019s no different than similar statements about long-term illegal residents, except that the former are at least waiting in a line that they had reasonable grounds to expect to make it through.\u00a0 There\u2019s much more at the link and, though Cato had a clear bias in favor of open borders, I don\u2019t think they\u2019re making up this issue.<\/p>\n
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This is a very short item but something I came across the other day that was entirely new to me.\u00a0 The \u201cDreamers,\u201d we are told, are in need of legal residency in the United States because they left the countries of their birth so long ago that those places are wholly unfamiliar to them, including […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[741,872,46],"class_list":["post-8321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dream-act","tag-h-1b-immigration","tag-immigration"],"yoast_head":"\n
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