They have to pay the processing fees of $1.500. State impact assistance fee. $500. and a penalty of $1.000. All of thatsome $3.000is not even getting you down the road toward a green card and citizenship. The $500 from 12 million people-$6 billiongoes to States that have the great impact to help them in terms of offsetting any of their additional burdens. in terms of health care and education. That is not an insignificant amount of resources. We went through during yesterdays discussion and debate how. by and large. these individuals are healthier. and we also went into about how they had utilized the health care system. and it shows that is effectively an incidental additional kind of expense. They must comply with the Selective Service Act. submit fingerprints and undergo a background check. and they must get in the back of the line for a green card. That means. for all of those who have been waiting in line. about 4 million people who have relatives here and have petitioned for them to come into the United States many. without this legislation. would have virtually no opportunity to do so. They will have that opportunity to come into the United States over an 8year period. Then. after that 8year period. these individuals we have discussed here could begin to move. and depending on their work record and their participation and sense of community. they could get on path toward a green card. Then it takes 5 more years to become a citizen. The earliest is maybe 13 or 14 years before they would be able to have that opportunity for citizenship.
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