These are people who will be entitled to gain lawful permanent resident status. Let me give you a quick example. If an engineer is working on a project that terminates prematurely. and this person cannot line up new employment immediately and fill out all the immigration paperwork quickly enough. the engineer would need to make a planned trip back home to the country of origin to get the green card that he or she is entitled to get. That would disrupt work. school. other things in lining up the new employment. but the person would ultimately qualify. What 245(1) was meant to do within the act was to take care of this situation. We charge these particular individuals much higher sum to apply for permanent residency status. The reason we do that is we say to them rather than pay for the airline ticket to go back and submit paperwork to the consulate office. which Is already overworked. give the money directly to the INS and let them use it immediately. That is one of the reasons why we got close to $100 million last year to do work for the INS. for border enforcement activities. for filling out paperwork for those naturalizing. and also helping people become U.S. citizens who are lawful permanent residents and have the right to be here. This is a good provision in the law. It does not allow those who are crossing illegally to come in.
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