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[barnett]

Now undocumented immigrants dont have to return to their home country to apply for a waiver of illegal status and can adjust status in the US!

The Obama administration plans a rule change to help reduce the time illegal immigrant spouses and children are separated from citizen relatives while they try to win legal status in the United States, a senior administration official said Thursday.

Currently, illegal immigrants must leave the country before they can ask the government to waive a three- to 10-year ban on legally coming back to the U.S. The length of the ban depends on how long they have lived in the U.S. without permission.

The official said the new rule would let children and spouses of citizens ask the government to decide on the waiver request before the illegal immigrant heads to his or her home country to apply for a visa. The illegal immigrants still must go home to finish the visa process to come back to the U.S., but getting the waiver ahead of time could reduce the time an illegal immigrant is out of the country.

The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because the proposed policy change had not been made public.

The waiver shift is the latest move by President Barack Obama to make changes to immigration policy without congressional action. Congressional Republicans repeatedly have criticized the administration for policy changes they describe as providing "backdoor amnesty" to illegal immigrants.

Immigrants who do not have criminal records and who have only violated immigration laws can win a waiver if they can prove that their absence would cause an "extreme hardship" for their citizen spouse or parent. The government received about 23,000 hardship applications in 2011 and more than 70 percent were approved, the official said.

Applications for the waiver can take as long as six months to be acted upon, the official said. The new rule is expected to reduce that processing time to just days or weeks, the official added.

"This would streamline the process (and) reduce the time of separation between family members," the official said.

The proposal will be published in the Federal Register on Friday. The official said the administration hopes to change the rule later this year.

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[darik]

Once again the ignoramus in chief shows his total ignorance of and absence of respect for the Constitution of the United States and the laws that have been passed. It looks like the ioc is trying to keep the rest of his illegal relatives here. He should be impeached and Biden institutionalized.

King Mob, Congress was NOT "in recess". Both houses have to agree to a recess and the House of Mis representatives never agreed to it.

[burdett]

Spare me the details... Bottom line... Obamas an Idiot.

[victorio83]

The president asked the Senate to pass a bill extending the payroll tax cuts for a full 2 years.
The response was that congress was not in session and actually in recess.
The president then fulfilled his constitutionally protected duty of recess appointments.
Then the Republic party claimed that they WERE in session. Go figure

Check and Mate.

[garret]

Its just another thing that will get him out of office.

[jamilah38]

I don't understand the objection, if they follow all of the rules and become legal citizens.

To Foghorn they would then have to work for minimum wage and could not undercut our wages, beside I thought all you conservatives wanted to abolish the minimum wage.

[augustus]

OH MY GOD!

My dreams of picking tomatoes, mowing lawns, and cleaning hotel rooms as a career have been significantly diminished.

[seme22]

Just another action by this administration that tries to circumvent the Constitution.
In thirty years history will show this to be one of the most corrupt and lawless administrations in this countries history.

[adaya]

They all do it for one reason and one reason only. They want to undermine our wages and force us to work for a lot less while forcing us to pay more in taxes. They want to create a society with so much inequality that we live in object poverty. The Plutocrats who run America would get a wet dream if slavery was to return back to this country. Ain't nothing that those bastards would want more.

My advice to you is to get the best education you can while you can. Then if you can't find a job here just go to any of the myriad of countries out there that would appreciate your level of education. If America wants slaves now then let it fall into a banana republic.

Maybe then the idiots who voted for Romney and/or Obama will wake up.