Senate Immigration Bill increases green card quota for Siblings and Adult Children by 254,000 per year

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If enacted, the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act (CIRA, S.2611) would be the most dramatic change in immigration law in 80 years, allowing an estimated 103 million persons to legally immigrate to the U.S. over the next 20 years—fully one-third of the current population of the United States.

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Additional Permanent Visas for Siblings, Adult Children, and their Families

The permanent entry of non-immediate relatives—such as brothers, sisters, and adult children—is currently subject to a cap of 480,000 per year minus the number of immediate relatives (the parents, spouses, and minor children of U.S. citizens) admitted in the prior year. CIRA eliminates the deduction for immediate relatives from the cap. This effectively increases the number of non-immediate relatives who could attain LPR status by 254,000 per year.

http://www.heritage.org/Research/Immigration/wm1076.cfm

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http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:SN02611:@@@P

ALL ACTIONS:

4/7/2006:

Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.

4/24/2006:

Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 414.

COSPONSORS(6)

Sen Brownback, Sam [KS] - 4/7/2006

Sen Graham, Lindsey [sC] - 4/7/2006

Sen Hagel, Chuck [NE] - 4/7/2006

Sen Kennedy, Edward M. [MA] - 4/7/2006

Sen Martinez, Mel [FL] - 4/7/2006

Sen McCain, John [AZ] - 4/7/2006

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wow...

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wow...

This bill should, if people are driven by their personal interests as much as I believe they are, be wildly popular here on VJ

[almaty 19]

wow...

This bill should, if people are driven by their personal interests as much as I believe they are, be wildly popular here on VJ

no doubt, that is an unbelieveable #....amazing..population growth extreme

[AnaAndDaniel 0]

does it come with a tax cut?

Daniel

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wow...

This bill should, if people are driven by their personal interests as much as I believe they are, be wildly popular here on VJ

Yes and that's just one of the four provisions of the bill. There are others, check out the source link.

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Go America!

In other news, Europe's birthrate has become a matter of urgent political concern.

Germany has the lowest birthrate in the EU, with 8.5 births per 1,000 inhabitants.

A German tabloid recently predicted that Germans would die out entirely by 2300.

In Austria, the magazine Profil joked that Austrians (birthrate of 9.7 per 1,000

inhabitants) would soon deserve their own enclosure in Vienna's zoo - next to the

pandas.

[almaty 19]

wow...

This bill should, if people are driven by their personal interests as much as I believe they are, be wildly popular here on VJ

Yes and that's just one of the four provisions of the bill. There are others, check out the source link.

i am checking into it

[terri o'neale 0]

That does seem to make the whole thing much more fair. Justice and fairness are American ideals after all.

[AnaAndDaniel 0]

oh well, prolly amount to not much more than a flying rat's patootie after all is said and done. most likely all of this is just posturing by the politicians.

Daniel

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[noemij 0]

This should speed up the wait time, at least for a short period...we waited 10 years for my aunt's visa to be processed...

[almaty 19]

oh well, prolly amount to not much more than a flying rat's patootie after all is said and done. most likely all of this is just posturing by the politicians.

Daniel

:energetic:

i agree..much ado about nothing