Friday, March 28, 2014

DHS giving illegal immigrant ‘petty’ criminals second chance in waiver application process

Some immigrants who were denied before because of criminal offenses are now allowed to apply for citizenship.   - - Donna Poisl

by Caroline May, Political Reporter

Are you an illegal immigrant whose waiver to stay in the country was denied because of your criminal past? Well, you’re in luck, because the Obama Administration may let you stay in the country anyway.

In a guidance distributed to congressional offices and obtained by The Daily Caller, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced that it is reopening cases in which applications for provisional unlawful presence waivers were denied to criminals.

According to the notice, USCIS had determined that applicants should not be denied an I-601A waiver due to a past criminal offense so long as it “falls under the petty offense or youthful offender exceptions or is not considered a crime involving moral turpitude.
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