First Changes in the US Detention policy

Posted by | Posted in Immigration | Posted on 10-08-2009

The Detention Policy of the US has been criticized since ages! The tough rules, the deadly detentions and other such practices – all are condemned in a major way. The decision to reform the US Detention Policy was cheered and welcomed by people from all over the world.

John Morton, Immigration and Customs Enforcement director, told reporters that detentions of families at the T. Don Hutto Residential Center in Taylor, Texas, which has held 400 people, would end immediately.

According to a recent press release by The Associated Press, “Some families would go to a facility in Pennsylvania, but it has only 85 beds and Morton said other alternatives would be considered. These could include community homes, often run by nonprofit or religious groups, where the immigrants can come and go, but federal officials can still keep track of them.

Morton further elaborated that this change would lead to “the creation of a system that is marked by and driven by the civil detention philosophy.”

According to the Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, More changes are coming in what she called a major overhaul that DHS officials acknowledge will take years.”

There are a number of issues that need to be corrected,” Napolitano said. “If people are going to be held … we have an obligation that they be held safely in a clean, healthy environment.” she further added.

All in all, this plan is turning out to be a huge revolution as far the “Overhauling of the Detention Policy” is concerned. People are not only applauding this new makeover but are also seeing this as a step towards the benefit of mankind. We are no exception!

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Investors Pre and post visa requirements under the EB-5 program

Posted by | Posted in Immigration | Posted on 11-05-2009

Do you know that having only $1,000,000 of the net worth is not enough to qualify for the EB-5 investment program? Apart from the general qualifying conditions, there are several additional conditions that investors have to fulfill under the EB-5 program, such as collecting documents including bank statements, tax proof, income returns et al that are required to make a petition application. You may read Investment criteria for EB-5 aspirants to know about the eligibility conditions for investors, looking to immigrate to the US under this program.

Once you get an EB-5 visa to USA, some post-visa requirements also needs to be complied with, such as creation of 10 new jobs every year for the first two years by the EB-5 business enterprise for US employees. So, there are many such requirements that investors have to fulfill, though this will not really be a challenge for a good businessmen.

In case, you are thinking that once you have got the EB-5 visa, you can then take an easy route and escape the post-visa requirements, you are terribly wrong. This is because the EB-5 visa granted to you initially is the conditional one. Only when you have successfully met the post-visa requirements for the first two years of your stay in USA, you are granted the unconditional EB-5 visa that makes you a permanent US resident. You may also apply for US Citizenship after that. For a comprehensive view of the basic criteria for both pre-visa and post-visa phase of EB-5 program is enlisted in this article, EB-5 – Basic requirements for the Investment Criteria.

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