Section 245 of the Act allows an alien to apply for adjustment of status to that of a lawful permanent resident (LPR) while in the United States if certain conditions are met. The alien must have been inspected and admitted or paroled, be eligible for an immigrant visa and admissible for permanent residence, and, with some exceptions, have maintained lawful nonimmigrant status. The alien must also not have engaged in unauthorized employment. Section 245(i) of the Act allows an alien to apply to adjust status under section 245 notwithstanding the fact that he or she entered without inspection, overstayed, or worked without authorization. Your link doesnt work. This doesnt sound like legislative language. Is this from 245(i) or is it someones summary?
I dont know what you're getting upset over. Inspection to me is a medical inspection that you get when you immigrate to this country and go through the Ellis Island type experience. If you are here on a work or student visa I dont think you go through that, therefore you havent been inspected. It doesnt mean you entered the country illegally by swimming the Rio Grande. Overstaying your visa because the INS didnt complete work on your application for change in status before your visa expires is a poor reason to call someone a criminal. As is telling someone that they are an illegal if they got paid for baby sitting one afternoon.
Your link doesnt work. This doesnt sound like legislative language. Is this from 245(i) or is it someones summary?
That's from an INS memo on 245 and 245(i). The link at #112 works fine.
So does the link to the site for the HR 1885 legislation I posted at #131.
My legislative links in the original article busted, and I apologize for that. See my post at #91 for an explanation.
Inspection to me is a medical inspection that you get when you immigrate to this country and go through the Ellis Island type experience. If you are here on a work or student visa I dont think you go through that, therefore you havent been inspected. It doesnt mean you entered the country illegally by swimming the Rio Grande. Overstaying your visa because the INS didnt complete work on your application for change in status before your visa expires is a poor reason to call someone a criminal. As is telling someone that they are an illegal if they got paid for baby sitting one afternoon.
Look, it doesn't matter what you think, if what you think isn't the truth.
What you're saying contradicts the clear meaning of both of the INS statements thaty I posted with this thread.
If you don't believe them, try doing a Google Search on Section 245(i).
There are many links, including some from advocates of Illegal immigration and Amnesty, that will verify what I'm telling you.
