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From: Ahmad Scattred <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2001 3:12 PM
Subject: INS info from Visalaw.com
> FAR REACHING AMNESTY LEGISLATION INTRODUCED IN CONGRESS
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> This week Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) introduced a bill that would
> essentially grant an amnesty to many undocumented immigrants in the US.
> H.R. 500, titled the U.S. Employee, Family Unity, and Legalization Act
(the
> USEFUL Act), it would make a number of important changes to US immigration
> law.
>
> First, it would change the registry date from the current January 1, 1972
to
> February 6, 1996. The registry is a program that essentially grants
amnesty
> to people in the US who have been in this country since before a specified
> date. It would also provide for updates of the registry date in the
future
> so that in 2003 the date would be 1997, in 2004, 1998, in 2005, 1999, in
> 2006, 2000, and in 2007, 2001. It would make the information provided in
an
> application for registry confidential so that it could not be used for
> enforcement, and would provide a penalty of up to five years in prison for
> making false claims on a registry application.
>
> The law would eliminate the retroactive application of new grounds for
> deportation when the offense occurred before it was a reason for
deportation
> and would apply this same standard to grounds of inadmissibility.
>
> It would amend the definition of aggravated felony to require sentences of
> five years for crimes of violence, theft offenses, and several other
> offenses. It would also require that for other offenses to be considered
> aggravated felonies a sentence of at least one year actually be imposed
and
> not simply be a possibility. The law would redefine conviction so that
> convictions that are expunged or otherwise removed from a person's record
> cannot be the basis for deportation.
>
> The law would eliminate the three and ten-year bars on readmission that
> currently apply to people who have failed to maintain valid immigration
> status in the US.
>
> It would amend the recently created V visa to allow spouses and children
of
> permanent residents to enter the US to achieve family unity immediately.
> The current V visa provisions require that an immigrant visa application
be
> pending for three years.
>
> Many of the changes have been sought by immigration advocates since 1996,
> when the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act was
> passed. Bills to make similar changes have been introduced in the past,
but
> seldom even received a hearing in the Immigration Subcommittee chaired by
> Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX). Immigration experts doubt this bill will be
passed
> into law, but believe it will be taken more seriously by the new chair of
> the Subcommittee, Rep. George Gekas (R-PA.
>
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