Immigration Issues that you need to be aware of

Please read this closely:

1. The green card will not keep you from getting deported if you break the law in the US, something as simple as a DUI can get you deported.
2. A visa out of status for any reason can get you deported. You get stopped for a traffic ticket, and out of status, do not pass go, and you will go to Immigration Detention.
3. A SSN# that is not a legal number will also get you deported. They are verifying them when you apply for a license.
4. Does not matter if you have family, own a home, and a car, and even a business, if you get deported, you will be out of the country shortly, immigration does not care.

Right now, INS is in a surge mode to pick up anyone that they find illegal in the US, for what ever reason..........Please do not let this happen to you.
In California, they actually have immigration stops set up, and they are picking up people in large numbers. Does not matter which country that you are from, how long that you have been in the US, etc. If you do not have a legal document permitting you to be in the US, you will be gone.

Please be very careful. And all of the above also goes to nurses that have overstayed visas, immigration does not care. And if you get deported, it will be ten years before you will be able to return.

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After consulting with multiple immigration attorneys, it is not expected that any special visas for nurses will be available until the Congress and the House of Representatives create new visas, and not until later in the year. There will not be any Schedule A visas appearing in the Januray Bulletin of the USCIS until they become available. Right now, there is no preference....strictly on where you were born.. If your country does not use up its allotment, then you will be able to get a visa earlier, otherwise all will be waiting. No special cicumstances apply here.

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Without having US citizenship, you do not have the same rights as far as immigration. Scary, but it is true.