He obtained lawful permanent resident status in 2001 but does not retain U.S. citizenship, federal prosecutors said.
Again, before any RPI is allowed to transition into lawful permanent resident status, the Southern border must be certifiably secure.
Again, before any provisional status RPI is allowed to transition into lawful permanent resident status, the Southern border must be certifiably secure.
They can all become "temporarily" legit, a status the notoriously left-wing, yet federally funded, Legal Services Corporation will be happy to help them subsequently adjust to permanent resident status.
After one year in the US the Somali Bantus can adjust from refugee status to permanent resident status, and then after five years they are eligible for US citizenship.
Pertierra said a 1986 federal law supplies precedent to require completion of a civics component -- such as basic knowledge of English and U.S. history and government -- to grant permanent resident status.
According to the reports, which couldn't be confirmed, Mr. Abu Ismail was excluded from the race because his mother adopted U.S. citizenship before she died, though he argued that she held only permanent resident status.
Tamerlan, the elder brother, arrived in 2006 and was granted Permanent Resident status, while Dzhokhar, who arrived on a tourist visa in 2002, was given asylum status as a Chechen refugee from Dagestan, and eventually achieved U.S. citizenship on 11 September 2012.
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The DREAM Act would have conferred permanent-resident status on roughly the same set of immigrants that DACA covers.
There are nearly 1.2 million educated and skilled professionals waiting in line to gain permanent-resident status to the United States.
In the annual State Department green-card lottery that awards permanent-resident status to prospective immigrants via random drawing, New York's government is very proactive in seeking out new immigrants and becomes home for 12% of lottery winners.
Still others have tried to split the difference by arguing for a permanent noncitizen legal-resident status for illegal immigrants and their offspring, on the German and French model.
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Mr. Chen is a Singapore permanent resident, a legal status that confers certain advantages denied to other foreigners, such as the ability to buy single-family homes and receive higher priority in school admissions.
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