The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) declared steps to promote family unity in the immigration process amid Joe Biden’s led government commitment to keep families together.
According to the current law, noncitizens who marry Americans could petition for lawful permanent residency after their wedding with an American citizen.
But many non-citizens are asked to first leave the country and wait for the process to go ahead in order to apply for lawful permanent residency, causing long delays while separating them from their loved ones for a longer period.
The Department of Homeland Security has now decided to address the issue by making a new process to evaluate pleas for certain noncitizen spouses of US citizens who have been residents for ten years or longer.
The DHS will also review whether these noncitizens constitute ant threat to the national security of the US. These noncitizens will be qualified to apply for adjustment of status.
They would not be required to leave the country in order to petition for lawful permanent residence. ‘500,000 noncitizen spouses of citizens of the United States, who have lived in the US for over 23 year, may be eligible to employ this procedure’, according to the DHS estimates.
In order to apply for the process, these non-citizens are required to stay in the US without admission, present in the US for minimum 10 years as of June 17, 2024, and have a legally recognised marriage to US citizen as of June 17, 2024.
The DHS will collaborate to expedite the process of employment-based non-immigrant visas for qualified individuals, such as recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and undocumented noncitizens who have completed their higher education at an authorised United States in
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