No more so than an H1B visa makes one eligible for citizenship. It doesn't.
"Eligible for legal status" is a bit vague. The proposed "work visa" by definition offers "legal status", so I'm presuming he means "eligible for a permanent resident visa". But again, there's no reason that would be true, and it could be expressly written in legislation to prohibit any tie-in between this "work visa" and any other.
That said, I'm waiting for the WH to explain (a) how much it will cost to process 12 million new visas, (b) how they intend to deport the scofflaws who don't apply, (c) how they will make the INS ready to handle this 200 percent increase in workload, and (d) how they will do the above without affecting the 5 million *legal* immigrants now in the INS system.
Until they do that, assertions that these illegals won't go to the front of the line should be considered as outright lies (more properly stated, all *legal* immigrants will be forced to the back of the line).
| No more so than an H1B visa makes one eligible for citizenship. It doesn't. "Eligible for legal status" is a bit vague. The proposed "work visa" by definition offers "legal status", so I'm presuming he means "eligible for a permanent resident visa". But again, there's no reason that would be true, and it could be expressly written in legislation to prohibit any tie-in between this "work visa" and any other.
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No visa makes anyone eligible for Citizenship. An H1B, who has worked for 3 years, is eligible to adjust status to a Resident Alien, whom is eligible for Citizenship after 5 years.
The current proposal that Mr. Hagle and Mr Daschle have presented the President makes all H1’s, H2’s and H3’s eligible for adjustment of status.