Section 1 of this bill would help alleviate this problem but at the same time ensure the protection of domestic layworkers through the labor certification process. Section 2 of H.R. 5559 would provide a 10year statute of limitations on certain excludable offenses. The offenses would be: First. a conviction for moral turpitude. second. a conviction of two offenses involving sentences of 5 years or more. third. prostitution. fourth. misrepresentation in the immigration petition. and fifth. previous deportation. In order to qualify for the statute of limitations the alien would have to establish a clear record of rehabilitation since the offense. I would note that drug offenses are not included. Under current law. waivers of the grounds of exclusion are available to aliens who are close relatives of U.S. citizens. However. everyone else is forever excludable from the United States regardless of the time elapsed since the offense and the clean record of the alien since that time. The seeming harshness of this rule has resulted in many private bills considered by the Subcommittee on Immigration. Section 2 would reduce INS workload on processing waivers by placing a statute of limitations on excludability. The administration supports this approach.
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