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New hope for foreigners who are subject to the three/ten year bar

January 10th, 2012 Tushar Mathur

A new proposal by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) brings new hope to foreigners who are subject to the three and ten year bars because of their unlawful presence in the United States. Rather than leaving the United States to apply for a waiver at an overseas consulate office, these foreigners would be allowed to have their waiver pre-adjudicated by the USCIS in the United States according to the proposal. If their waiver applications are approved, they would still be required to depart the U.S. to apply for immigrant visas to return to the United States.

The 3/10 Year Bar
Section 212(a)(9) of the Immigration and Nationality Act provides that any noncitizen who after having been unlawfully present in the United States for 180-364 days and then voluntarily departs the country before they are placed in removal proceedings is not allowed to return to the United States for three (3) years.

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Tax Season Starts for Immigrants

December 22nd, 2009 Tushar Mathur

There are a million people who dreams day in and day out of immigrating to the United States. But trust me; this is just the easy part. Once you have legally immigrated to the United States then all the laws Federal laws would be applicable on you too like on any other American. You would be liable to pay all the applicable taxes which you are liable for, and some questions like the SSN, the ITIN, determining the alien tax status, and the taxation of the resident and the nonresident aliens would not take very long to steal away your sweet night sleep.

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E-Verify enforced from Sep 8th

September 12th, 2009 Tushar Mathur

Effective the 8th of Sep 2009 all the federal contractors and the sub contractors would be required to start using the E Verify system. This E Verify system would be primarily used to by the contractors to verify the eligibility of their employees to be working in the United States. As an act of prudence in July 09, Janet Napolitano the secretary of the Homeland Security Department (DHS) announced the administration’s support for the regulation by confirming that federal contracts would only be offered to the employers who would choose to have the E Verify system to validate the eligibility status of their employees.

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