With an estimated 16 million undocumented immigrants, the Senate has proposed an immigration bill that gives the applicant a clear roadway to citizenship.
The US proposes to grant a 13-year path to citizenship through border security, economic opportunity and Immigration modernization act that would gives registration to these undocumented Immigrants living in USA. The bill has made additional provision of $40 billion to the border security, which also includes thousand of visas that has been allocated for the highly skilled and low-skilled immigrants. The bringing out of E-verification has also helped employers to check the work authorization of their employees.
As per the bill, when an applicant applies for the citizenship, there are first given the status of Registered Provisional Immigrant (RPI), which gives undocumented immigrants the legal status to live in US for a period of six years with an option of renewal for another six years. On completion of ten years successfully, the applicant will be eligible for applying for the Adjust Status of Permanent residence and after that, they can go for Naturalization. Totally its takes 10 years to get permanent residency green card status and 13 years long to get US Citizenship.
When an applicant application is in the process of the RPI status, they will not be deported out of the country. In case the person is expected to be removed and knows that he or she is eligible for RPI status they will be granted opportunity to apply for RPI.
The RPI-granted person needs to pay a sum of $500 for registration. Once it is accepted in the first year of the bill’s enactment, the person can apply for the RPI status for his spouse and children. Both will be granted the visa and can stay in the US. The people are eligible for RPI only if they meet the requirement as below:
On completion of six years lawfully, the applicant can renew their RBI status by paying $500. In case the person is not able to pay full amount they can go for installment. After completing 10 years, the person with RPI status are eligible to apply for permanent residency, provided all the documents submitted by them are processed and they get their Immigration Medical Exam from designated USCIS Civil Surgeon successfully.
RPI Naturalization:
As per the provision listed, the RPI immigrants after completing three years lawfully in US can go for naturalization process just like others who take up the test given by the USCIS
- Citizenship test
- Interview – should be able to answer at least 6 question right out of 10
- Take Oath of loyalty to the US.
The provision will surely help most of the undocumented immigrants if it comes to force.
With the demand of highly skilled laborers in the US, gaining green card citizenship for these employees becomes easy.
- Their employer usually does the applicant applying through labor certificate; the companies who have recruited them will sponsor their green card citizenship. In order to bring highly skilled employees from outside to US, the company must meet the below requirements
- on approval of labor certification from Department of Labor (DOL), apply for form I-140 with USCIS
- Employers who sponsor for their alien employee must show that the employee is capable of paying the wages as per the labor certificate.
- The petition must prove that the hired foreign employee is capable of meeting the job requirements- job qualification, education and experience
- In order to meet the legal requirements to sponsor for the employees visa and other paper works, the employer will hire well-versed Immigrant lawyers who will take care of all the legal activities of the company.
1. In case of approved I-40 certificate- they can apply for Permanent residence
- Can file for I-485 application –Adjust Status to Permanent Residence
- Must be present lawfully – inspected by immigration officer at the port-of-entry to check their immigration status
- Must get their Immigration Medical Exam
- Not be under any criminal record and absolute security clearance must be maintained.
2. Applicants who possess Master’s degree or Bachelor’s degree along with their experience
- Apply through H-1B visa – Entry to US through specialty occupation
- H-1B visas given for maximum of three years- renewable for six years
3. Applicants who possess Specialized Knowledge – Professionals
- Individuals with skilled professions like architecture, engineers, lawyers, physicians, surgeons and elementary, college, university professors, teachers can apply.
- Employees who are more skilled and familiar with the employer’s interest, who are beyond the skills of the ordinary that are not as commonplace with the industry or organization.
4. Skilled Workers:
- Applicants who take on seasonal or temporary jobs, with a two years of experience
- Requirement of the undergraduate degree, vocational training apprenticeship
5. Unskilled Workers
- Education less than two years of higher studies, training or experience
- Labor oriented jobs where skilled or qualified workers are not available in the US
- The applicant can have any education, training, or experience as per the labor certification.
For all the above mentioned, the applicant when filing for Permanent residency must go through Immigration Medical Exam, so that they are successfully given US Citizenship.
Aspiring Immigrants to US need to undergo certain medical tests and one among them is the Sexually transmitted disease. As per the reports of World Health Organization, annually around 448 million curable cases of STIs occur in the age group of 15-49 years. Most of these STIs in adults need to undergo treatment. The center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a public health service, is responsible for ensuring that Immigrants who enter the United States do not carry any kind of threat to the local citizens. One of the ways of prevention of the same is by Immigration Medical Exam, which evaluates the health of the immigrants.
One of the important tests under the I-693 form is for Gonorrhea, a sexually transmitted infection. A second most bacterial STI that is prevalent in the United States, which is believed to have spread during the 1990s and 2000s, with more than 280,000 cases reported during 2011. Neisseria Gonorrhoeae is the bacterium that causes Gonorrhea infecting both men and women and even the child. The infection commonly occurs in genitals, rectum, and throat. The disease is spread through unprotected oral sex, anal and vaginal intercourse with gonorrhea affected persons. A baby during childbirth is more in danger if the mother is affected with gonorrhea.
Most of the men and women may face no symptoms at all. But some cases, symptoms may appear after 2 to 3 days or after 30 days of exposure.
Symptoms are like
•Having a burning sensation when urinating, itching, soreness, and painful bowel movements.
•Increased vaginal discharge with vaginal bleeding during intermenstrual bleeding are seen in women
•Painful or swollen testicles with white, yellow or green discharge from the penis are seen in men.
The symptoms are checked by doctors by conducting urine tests of the patient by Nucleic acid amplification tests. In case of oral and anal sex, swabs are used where the samples are collected from a throat and rectum.
Pregnant women with untreated gonorrhea will have their baby with high probabilities of infection during delivery causing severe health issues for the baby like ophthalmia neonatorum which affects the perforation of the globe of the eyes and cause blindness. Other medical issues in newborn are scalp abscesses, rhinitis, vaginitis, urethritis, arthritis, meningitis and sepsis. It is important that the pregnant women consult right doctor in order to get proper medication at the earliest which in turn will have low impact on the baby.
Affected people if not considered medical care will have a sever impact on their body resulting in
•Pelvic inflammatory disease causing blockage in the fallopian tubes, infertility and pelvic/ abdominal pain for a long term among women
•In men, the tubes attached to the testicles will cause pain. In rare of the rare case, they may become sterile.
•In some rare case, gonorrhea can be life-threatening by spreading to the blood or joints.
•Chances of receiving or giving HIV have seen if the patient goes untreated.
Gonorrhea can be treated if diagnosed at the proper time by blocking off the infection, even though nothing can be answered for the damage caused, as drug seems to have become immune to gonorrhea it is getting hard to permanently wash out the disease. The medicines should not be shared with any other person. Infected persons should avoid having sex. Being in a long term relationship with the spouse, who has been positively tested for gonorrhea, but has negative on STD test results. Thus, all patients with gonorrhea should make sure that the patient’s sex partner from the preceding 60 days are evaluated and treated as recommended by the physician.
US known to take precautions of every disease that spreads in the country affecting millions of people, every year and one such among them is the Influenza, commonly known as “the flu”. This is an infectious disease that is spread by birds and mammals caused by RNA Viruses.
Influenza are spread through air by coughs and sneezes. It is also transmitted by direct contact with bird dropping or nasal secretions, it is a contaminated disease. Most common symptoms being fever, runny nose, chills, sore throat, muscle pain, headache, coughing, weakness and tiredness. Children are the most vulnerable to this disease with nausea and vomiting also, it leads to gastroenteritis.
With the latest CDC estimation, the flu is bound to kill nearly 3,000 to 49,000 Americans each year. This creates a new challenges and uncertainties for both the public and the public health community. Especially flu is one of the major checks that need to be done by the Immigration Medical Exam for the Immigrants who apply for the US Citizenship. Proper Vaccinations needs to be administered for these immigrants and the record of the same need to be verified by the Civil Surgeons in order for the immigrants to gain citizenship.
Most of the influenza vaccinations are available in the developed countries. The trivalent influenza vaccine is administered on human being. As per the report Influenza spreads around the world in seasonal epidemics, with three to five million sever illness and more than 500,000 deaths.
It is important that people do not ignore the symptoms of the flu as mentioned above and immediately take proper medication.
easyIME.com is a free service, which streamlines the immigration medical exam process for green card aspirants by helping them locate the right USCIS Civil Surgeon and schedule their green card medical exam online. Green card aspirants can also find immigration lawyers near their zip code through this service.
