Young immigrants have expressed enthusiasm for the policy, even though it won't help them attain citizenship or legal permanent residence.
After eight years, individuals would be allowed to become legal permanent residents and could eventually become citizens five years later.
The negotiated time frame would permit applicants to naturalize three years after gaining legal permanent residency for a total of a 13-year path to citizenship.
Kawashima, seeking refuge from the repeated Godzilla attacks that plague their homeland, fled Japan and became legal permanent residents of the U.S. in 1984.
Along these lines, on Monday, Republican members of the Senate's Gang of Eight pushed to augment the period of time that an undocumented person would have to maintain legal permanent residency before applying for citizenship.
Sixing Liu, a legal permanent resident who has lived in the U.S. for 19 years, told U.S. District Judge Stanley Chesler that "I did not break the law" and that political factors may have been involved in his prosecution.
The undocumented could immediately apply for a special protective status to avoid deportation, but it would take them about eight years to get legal permanent residency (a green card) and another four or five years to become a U.S. citizen.
Advocates are also concerned that the bill requires certain goals on border security to be met before anyone can get a green card qualifying them for legal permanent residence and ultimately citizenship, and some say that the path to citizenship takes too long.
Some immigrants are holding off because Congress has begun to consider an immigration overhaul that could offer legal permanent status to most of the 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. The DACA program doesn't offer a green card or a path to citizenship, and participants must reapply every two years.
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Fifteen families evicted from Dale Farm could be given a legal, permanent home under plans for a new caravan site.
The internal debate within Israel must be resolved in order to define Israel's permanent legal boundary.
Mohammed Wali Zazi is a naturalized U.S. citizen, and Afzali and Najibullah Zazi are permanent legal residents.
Above all, the goal is to put the opposition and its supporters in a state of permanent legal jeopardy.
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This is a wonderful visa to have: it offers permanent legal residence.
Immigration officials also said marrying a U.S. citizen does not mean the spouse is automatically entitled to U.S. citizenship or permanent legal status.
Bush opposes a blanket amnesty but is considering the expansion of a temporary worker program that would allow Mexicans living illegally in the U.S. to gain permanent legal residency.
Bush opposes that idea, but he is considering the expansion of a temporary worker program, which would allow Mexicans living illegally in the United States to gain permanent legal residency.
Just last week the White House said it was considering a task force proposal to allow the estimated 3 million Mexicans living illegally in the United States to achieve permanent legal residence through a guest-worker program.
Any proposal to allow immigrants to obtain permanent legal residence through a guest-worker program, regardless of whether they are in the country illegally or came with temporary work visas, could, in the end, look a bit like some form of amnesty.
It takes an awful lot to get thrown out of the U.S. Just ask this guy, a permanent legal alien who, despite laying claim to a rap sheet that would make Lindsay Lohan wag a disapproving finger, still calls the U.S. home.
The council said it had a legal duty to provide permanent traveller sites.
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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After 10 years, people with provisional legal status could apply for permanent residency if the new security and fencing plans were operating, a new mandatory employment verification system was in place, and a new electronic exit system was tracking who leaves the country.
Before then a deal stitched together in the bleary hours could well snag on legal difficulties about redefining the permanent fund's remit without changing the treaty that set it up, or on political objections in smaller northern economies Finland, for example, doesn't like the idea of using the rescue funds to buy government bonds in secondary markets.
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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It would create two stages toward citizenship first legal residency here, second a green card and permanent status.
In another development, an opposition radio station, Klub Radio, won the right to a permanent frequency after a two-year legal battle with the media regulator.
The conservation easement, the legal tool that makes the deal work, is meant to be permanent.
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.
The Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States (1933) sets forth what is generally accepted as the legal criteria for the establishment of a nation-state: (1) A permanent population, (2) a defined territory, (3) a government, and (4) the capacity to enter into relations with other states.
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