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H.R. 6034, To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for relief to surviving spouses and children
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H.R. 6034 would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for relief to surviving spouses and children.
Detailed Summary
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to allow an alien widow of a U.S. citizen who was married for less than two years at the time of the citizen's death who proves by a preponderance of the evidence that the marriage was entered into in good faith and not for the purpose of obtaining an immigration benefit to self-petition (within the required two years) for continued immediate relative status.
Extends the petition filing deadline for two years after the date of the enactment of this Act for an alien spouse who failed to file within the required two-year period but would be considered by reason of this Act to remain an immediate relative.
Status of the Legislation
Latest Major Action: 10/3/2008: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 586.
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Brent Renison
October 13, 2008, 8:19pm (report abuse)Under current law, U.S. citizens can file for legal permanent residence for their foreign spouses. Once a petition is filed, it can often take several months, and sometimes years, for the Department of
Homeland Security (DHS) to adjudicate the case. When a couple is married less than 2 years and the U.S. citizen petitioner dies before the petition is filed and adjudicated, the spouse is no longer considered by DHS to be eligible for permanent residence and must immediately return to
his or her home country or be subject to deportation.
Widows and widowers often face difficult decisions when mourning
the death of a spouse, including deciding whether to leave behind
family they have come to love, and whether to separate their
U.S. citizen children from their deceased spouses grandparents and
other family members.
Deporting widows and orphans of American citizens, when they have entered legally and complied with the rules for legal residency, says bad things about our country.