permanent residency cancellation

[ProActive]

This is a follow-up to another thread on this discussion group. Other people and I were wondering how many permanent residencies were really cancelled because the INS proved the lack of intent to work indefinitively for the sponsoring company at the moment of adjucation.

According to the INS statistics in the year 2001 70k aliens were removed from the US, http://www.ins.usdoj.gov/graphics/aboutins/congress/testimonies/2001/greene_121901.pdf

There are no further detail on the infractions that led to the criminal status. The examples of immigration related offenses are pretty obvious like crossing the border illegally, terorism. However in a law based on \'intent\' how difficult is it to be a \'criminal\'?

Comments/more data welcomed!

 

[AmericanWannabe]

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>70k aliens were removed from the US

Do they include illegal imigrants?
I doubt that many PR can be deported

 

[ProActive]

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I have the same feeling. Just trying to put together some data to support it.

 

[AmericanWannabe]

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If memory serves me, JoeF once said only a couple of thousand
of PRs lost their GC last year (2000). Most of them
are due to abandonning their residence in the USA
(i.e. staying outside the USA too long)

 

[ProActive]

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Interesting, thanks for the info. Do you happen to know where s/he got the data from?

 

[ProActive]

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Some more documents on the INS site, this is a spreadsheet with INS investigations: http://www.ins.usdoj.gov/graphics/aboutins/statistics/enf98excel/table61.xls

IMO, PR investigations, if any, would fall under \'Fraud investigations.\' There have been 4,614 of these investigations in 1998. As a comparison status violator cases reached 25,427.

Comments/data/intepretations?

 

[ProActive]

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Thanks JoeF!

I will look some more at the site. I am in no rush of leaving the sponsoring employer, however I am trying to stay in control of my life, specially after being in the GC process since 1997 :-(

 

[Abu_lafya]

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Also, only ~450 went to trial 2/3 were convicted. I suppose this is a real small number.

 

[AmericanWannabe]

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I found this on http://www.cnn.com

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The government estimates that deportable aliens -- those who have overstayed their visas as well as those who have committed crimes that make them ineligible to remain in the United States -- totals about 314,000 people of various nationalities.

A program to find and deport them was announced last month by U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service Director James Ziglar.

The decision to start by tracking down those of Middle Eastern and Arab descent was made by the Justice Department, according to one official.

"They\'ll begin by putting names in the FBI\'s National Crime Information data base system, the most widely used tool for finding suspects," explained one source.

"Then, if anyone on the list applies for a driver\'s license, or gets stopped for speeding, their name could pop up and they\'d be arrested," the source added.

The program to deport aliens of Middle Eastern or Arab descent will begin immediately. One official said it will be a "long, involved process."

 

[ProActive]

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Saw this news. The way it was formulated in some other sources suggested that the INS will go mainly after people who stayed after deportation proceedings were complete.