Their priority dates must also be current. Lawmakers are lining up on each side of the issue. It would be absurd to let this expire. At this juncture, it is crucial for you to contact your Congress person if you or a close family member will be affected. Once they depart the United States, it would trigger the 3 and 10 year bars against reentry into the United States.
Many family members are here unlawfully largely due to an inherent flaw in the immigration system.
It takes more than four years for a spouse of a permanent resident to obtain immigration to the United States. Worse still, it takes over six years for adult children of permanent residents to join their parents and four years for married children of US citizens. If these defects are corrected, there would perhaps be less of an incentive to remain unlawfully in the United States. Like the previous extension, it would only be a stop-gap measure. All rights reserved.