However, even in a good year, 2009, only about 1, 300 new principals received immigration status under the visa category.

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The lack of a legal visa category for the jobs most illegal immigrants fill is a core reason for illegal immigration.

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The new visa category proposed by the National Foundation for American Policy would establish a straightforward procedure for a potential entrepreneur to immigrate to the United States.

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However, today, America has only a bureaucratic H-2A visa category that pleases neither growers nor the farm workers union, and a cumbersome H-2B visa for short-term seasonal work outside of agriculture.

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Under a proposed new visa category, a potential immigrant would submit a business plan to be evaluated by the Small Business Administration and upon judging the ability of the business to employ three or more U.S. workers (non-relatives) the individual would receive conditional permanent residence.

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Ashcroft's interim measure allows time for the INS to process the boy's application for a new type of visa, known as a Category T, specifically devised to help victims of human trafficking.

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That put him in a different category, with a much longer wait for a visa.

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