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.
actually, if i may say so, it is not that easy to deport anyone as you seem to suggest; for a start it takes the ins way more than a year to get around to deporting most and even then if you have a immigration attorney on to it , they can stall this process much longer depending on your illegal status suzanne.
and who goes to a detention center,often depends on your ethnicity and affluence.
believe me , i know people who were out of status,owned up and paid for a good immigration attorney and never saw any detention center.
e.g lobby the local politician,find loopholes in the system. techniques often exploited by attorneys, but will be costly and there are no garantees either etc
some have failed having done this.
i know people who have lived there a very long time illegally,and i even know a miliionare who is as illegal as the day he arrived there, poor.
for instance, a person who enters the us legally is in treated differentlty to a mexican who jumps the wall and enters the us illegally,and that is just one example,there are many more.
he will be deported forthwith,but not the other one,especially if he/she is anglo, prosperous and can afford a good attorney.
ask the many pub owners in new york, you would be surprised how many had gone that route and succeeded..
now whilst i don't wish to condone illegal acts nor contradict your sound advice, i do know people who live quite well in the usa illegally, with house and families, bank accounts,businesses employing more than ten americans,and have been stopped by the police,who have never asked them for any immigration documents.
if i may say so,unless the law changed recently in certain states, police who stop you for whatever are not in the slightest bit interested in your egal status, they are only interested in your license and other relevant automobile information, and why should they, they are not the ins.they have enough on their hands.
unless hey have changed their policy on repremanding traffic offenders,the courts who adjudicate such matters are not even interested in one's legal status.
but like i said, you have my sincere apologies if this has all come about in the last year.
but yes you are right in most of your advice , concerning green card holders will be deported if they act in contradiction to the law.
but even then, it would be diffilcult to deport someone for say defending oneself in a pub brawl, or assaulting an american who gets in your face and reminds how often his country has bailed us out in europe.
but if you give them lip,and talk like a embilcile,and display a self destruct attitude towards them, guess what!!
you will have a hard time staying there in the usa.
so whilst you are correct in that it is better to be legally living there,for piece of mind, deporting someone does depend a lot more on your socio ecomomic group,ethicity,type of illegal status, who you know,and that you are prepared to buy a good immigration attorney,and the last one will make or break you.
i am afraid to say i know people who have gone this route; america is still all about money.
do we need reminding of that one.
