One seeks to force the state's schoolteachers to wait for five years, instead of two, before they attain permanent status.
After years of carrot-and-stick games with trade terms, the US has finally granted China permanent status as a normal trading partner.
He wants a new guest worker program that would eventually allow many people now in the United States illegally to gain permanent status.
All those thus allowed to gain temporary worker status (and, in due course, permanent status and then citizenship) would be able to bring their families, as well.
Though he qualifies for the DREAM Act, which gives immigrants who came to the United States as minors temporary residency, the measure would not give him the permanent status mandated by the university, according to his attorney.
And this President is committed to continuing to work with both parties, continuing to encourage both parties to engage in direct negotiations, to help bring about resolution of the permanent status issues that can allow for the outcome that I just described.
"Both in the interests of protecting children, but also of staff who have been placed on the list without any criminal conviction, it is essential that referral cases from provisional to permanent status are dealt with as quickly as possible, " she said.
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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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We will continue to make clear that only through direct negotiations between the parties can the Palestinians and Israelis address all the permanent status issues that need to be addressed, and achieve the peace that they both deserve: two states for two peoples with a sovereign, viable and independent Palestine, living side by side in peace and security with a Jewish and democratic Israel.
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.
The scheme appears to break the Oslo agreements in that it unilaterally alters the status both of the city and of the settlements: issues that were explicitly put on hold pending the permanent-status negotiations.
Those who qualify for these visas would be offered a faster track to permanent residency status.
He obtained lawful permanent resident status in 2001 but does not retain U.S. citizenship, federal prosecutors said.
The only hurdle: The program requires him to have permanent residency status, also known as a green card.
It said the surveillance was illegal because Mr Dotcom, who was born in Germany, had achieved permanent residency status.
It insists, too, that the third redeployment must be subsumed in the permanent-status talks, which, it proposes, should start forthwith.
Israel is responding to the United Nations General Assembly vote that granted the Palestinian Authority permanent observer status at the UN.
He said he started the process of getting a green card a permanent residency status with sponsorship from Cisco and got one in 2008.
The only hurdle: The program requires him to have permanent residency status.
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.
The Americans clearly hope that an agreement will reduce the tension so the deadline can be postponed while permanent-status negotiations get under way.
Yet our immigration system too often tells these entrepreneurs to go home, denying them entrance or frustrating their efforts to obtain permanent lawful status.
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They get permanent immigration status, known as a green card, if they can document that at least 10 jobs were created after two years.
Its leaders are frequent visitors to the region and, like nine other countries, including Japan, Singapore and South Korea, it is lobbying for permanent observer status on the Arctic Council.
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.
But the payoffs from these programs are in the future, and it is vital today to increase the number of annual visas and grants of permanent residency status for foreigners skilled in science and technology.
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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.
Moreover, the cabinet's introduction at this stage of its permanent-status plans seemed calculated to elicit a rejection from the Palestinians, which could in turn be cited by the Israelis as a reason not to proceed with the redeployment.
The DREAM Act would have conferred permanent-resident status on roughly the same set of immigrants that DACA covers.
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