If a person is applying for a Green Card and is in the process of immigrating to the United States, then one part of the entire process is the Immigration Medical physical, which is a mandatory requirement. The Immigration physical is monitored and regulated by the USCIS body, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services., which appoints Civil Surgeons in order to conduct the exam and supply the immigration body with the results.
People who are applying for immigration status from overseas too have to go through the process of the Immigration Medical, but the steps are a bit different.
The Medical Exam can be conducted only by a surgeon who is appointed by the USCIS. For a list of the doctors in the applicant’s vicinity or area one can log onto the USCIS site or get the details from the free service of a portal known as easyIME. The www.easyime.com website is a completely free service for applicants and provides zip code – based information and details about the USCIS Civil Surgeons. It even lists immigration lawyers to facilitate use by immigrant aspirants.
It is always advisable to have the exam done just before the applicant submits his or her adjustment of status documents. The results are considered valid only for a year.
One of the major hurdles in getting through immigration to a new country is often that much-dreaded medical exam. But the Green Card Medical Examination forms a compulsory part of the entire process. So you will have to get through it, if you wish to be successful in your immigration endeavors!
The body looking after immigration to the United States is the USCIS or the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service, and is a part of the Department of Homeland Security. So, whether it is for securing permanent residence or a green card, every applicant’s liaison partner will be the USCIS.
WHAT YOU WILL NEED FOR THE MEDICAL EXAM
Before the date of the exam try and do some research on your own. This knowledge will help you be armed with the latest details and will iron out any uncertainty.
The next step would be to understand the entire length of procedures that you will need to go through.
With the help of www.easyime.com you can find the best-priced and most appropriate, well-ranked USCIS-approved Civil Surgeon, in the area of your choice. The portal will prompt you to feed in the Zip Code, and it will then display a list of USCIS Civil Surgeons in the vicinity chosen by you.
The next step is to fix up an appointment and you are on your way!
Sanctuary cities in the United States and Canada are places where certain policies are enforced to protect illegal immigrants from what people in these cities see as unfair immigration policies. These cities go against what they term as “unfair” immigration policies by choosing not to enforce them, by having their police keep information on criminal immigrants from federal immigration officials. Thus illegal immigrants, including those with criminal convictions, escape prison and deportation.
The Congress is in the process of enacting laws that will penalize sanctuary cities by denying federal funds for other programs. This comes in the wake of the brutal killing of 32-year-old Kate Steinle, allegedly by an illegal alien, in the sanctuary city of San Francisco.
The alleged killer is an illegal immigrant and a seven-time felon who had been deported to Mexico five times. The indifference of the politicians in San Francisco to the murder, from City Hall to the halls of Congress, was alarming and Washington lawmakers crafted Kate’s Law to make sanctuary cities accountable for enforcing federal immigration policy to protect other innocent people.
It is widely believed that sanctuary cities also reflect a breakdown in the law and order situation. Defiant city mayors and city council members who ambitiously want to advance their political careers support policies — in this case, immigration policies — counter to those set by Congress. They believe their wisdom is greater than Washington’s on immigration policy.
The alarming increase in last year’s surge of unaccompanied children and families who infiltrated into the border from Mexico and coming from countries of Central America has gone down considerably, almost by half, this year. According to a US Customs agency this has been due to some strict measures taken by the U S Government on the borders and some strict efforts by Mexico too.
By many standards the scenario is not so serious and urgent as it was last year – actions by the U S Government and other factors have contributed to the easing out of the crisis, which has been markedly high in the last decade.
Illegal immigration from Mexico too has gone down dramatically since the year 2000, when patrol officials had rounded up around 1.6 million Mexicans. Last year only 230,000 people had transgressed the borders. What’s more, according to an immigration report about 1 million Mexicans who were living illegally in the country have left the country.
“The urgency is gone on the U.S.-Mexico border,” said a border security analyst for the Washington Office on Latin America, a think tank.
Last year more than 468,000 arrived from countries of Central America, which happened to be more than those migrants from Mexico.
