Significance Of Deferred Action Policy

By Annabelle Newton


The United States President Barack Obama was instrumental in the enactment of deferred action policy. This policy was introduced on 15/06/2012. It is a program which assists a majority of young illegal and immigrants without proper documentations who arrived in US under 16 years of age to get legal document to stay in the country. There are prerequisites conditions that must be met by the candidate before he can be entitled to the program.

Since the program aims at assisting the youth get legal stay in US, the first requirement is that the person must have arrived in US when their age was below the sixteen years. The arrival could either have been by themselves or with their families. He must have also resided in US for the past five years, continuously.

An eligible candidate must have been in the country from the time when the policy was first introduced of the policy to the time when he tenders his application. The applicant must be one who got in to the country without being inspected before the policy was introduced. Those whose immigration status ended by 15/06/2012 are also considered.

The beneficiaries to this scheme are those who conduct themselves well. They must possess a clean record of behavior that is not tainted with misconduct. This means that he must not have been contravened the law and found guilty of multiple crimes, felony or significant crime. The age bracket must also be between age fifteen and thirty one by the time of introduction of the program.

Another per-condition is that the applicant should be a graduate from a high school or be enrolled in a high school with an equivalence of the programs. A two-year deportation deferment means that the successful candidate is able to acquire a work permit which will enable him to legitimately work anywhere in the country. It is, however, alarming that statistics prove that the number of applicants decreased in October and November.

It was thought that after Obama re-election, many immigrants will apply in large number but that was not the case. Those who understood the importance such a policy were quick to apply and had already done so. It was also speculated that suppose Romney won the elections, then he could have scrapped out the policy.

There have been major setbacks in the implementation of the policy. One of the obstacles lies in the $465 amount of application payment charged by the government which is meant to cover the various costs of the program. The other setback is the accessibility of legal counsel which can help the young and undocumented immigrants organize their applications correctly.

A successful deferred action should be accompanied by social security digits. To get this number, one is required to first apply and be given a work-permit. With the employment-authorization credential, one then goes to the closest social security office where he makes an application for the unique number. He is required to take along with him his birth certificate, passport and the work-permit. Once successful application has been made, the social security card will be delivered to the owner in two weeks.




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