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Australia November 23, 2010 – In an article written by Philip Wolgen entitled “Five Ways to Move Forward on Immigration”, he stated that there is a diminishing in the prospects for achieving a comprehensive immigration reform, or the CIR. He stated that there is no clear possibility for the Administration to achieve CIR with a majority in the two houses. However, he believes that there are small fixes that could be made in the meantime and for this, he had five possibilities to suggest.

The first one is to establish a Commission to be able to determine whether the provisions from the immigration systems in other countries will be able to help fix the current broken immigration system. There are some countries such as Canada and New Zealand which are using point systems in order to select skilled workers from other countries for employment-based visas. In Denmark, if a foreigner is offered a job by a Danish employer, s/he may be able to find one as long as the occupation is listed on the “Positive List”.

His second suggestion is to establish an Assistance Centers for foreigners who wish to apply for a nonimmigrant visitor’s visa at a State Department Consulate Office abroad. These Assistance Centers, according to Wolgen, are not to provide legal services but help nonimmigrant applicants to understand the 214 (b) which states that every alien who are applying for a visitor’s visa at a Consulate Office abroad should be presumed as an immigrant until such time that s/he can establish to the satisfaction of a consular officer that s/he just wishes to visit the US.

Another one of his suggestion is that there should be an Update Section 249 of the INA, or the registry provision. This provision states that there should be a record of lawful admission for permanent residence that can be made for alien who has continuously resided in the US since before January 1, 1972 and that they should meet other specified requirements.

Lastly, Wolgen suggest that there should be a waiver that should be established to aggravate felony consequences. The aggravated felony provision which was established in the INA was intended to provide for the deportation of the aliens convicted of very serious crimes but there has been an expansion over time to include the various minor crimes which are neither aggravated nor felonious.

Source:
ilw.com