Options for a student with illegal status?

Jan

2011-02-06 23:07:09 UTC

You have one option only. Return to your home country before you turn 18 1/2. If you do so,you will receive no penalty for being here illegally because you were a minor. You can then apply to come back on a student visa without problem. If you remain here from the ages of 18 1/2 and 19,you will receive a 3 year ban on returning when you return to your home country. If you remain here after the age of 19,you will receive a 10 year ban.

There is no way to gain legal status from within the US. You have to return to your home country to get a visa.

Coming here on a tourist visa will do no good. You can only stay a limited amount of time and are not allowed to go to school or work. If you remain in the country after your tourist visa expires,you will be in no better situation than you are now.

If you stay here and go to college your status will still be illegal. You won't get a job and you would still have to return to your home country to gain legal status,only this time you will have a 10 year ban on returning because you stayed here illegally as an adult.

If you want legal status,you are going to have to return to your home country. Whether you do it when you turn 18 and face no ban on coming back or wait until later and face a 10 year ban is totally up to you. Even if you get married,you are still going to have to return to your home country.

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Options for a student with illegal status?

I have been in the US illegally since I was very young.

I am currently a Junior in high school. I only came aware of my illegal status here since I was chosen for various scholarships but was disqualified because of my lack of a social security number.

Last year I was number one in the school wide student rank, this semester I am number two. I haven't taken the ACT yet but on my practice exam I scored a 27.

A lot of teachers and people praise me and say they are sure I will have a promising future. However, I don't know what is going to happen. Being here illegally, I will not be able to work unless I am a legal resident even after agraduate college.

I need to know what are my options to achieve a legal status or if it is possible. My dad mentioned something about returning to my mother country after high school to apply for a Tourist/Student VISA. I am afraid because I do not have any siblings in there. Is there a way to achieve a legal status from withing the US? Or is it a better option to first finish University and then attempt to legalize my satus? I also read something about achieving a legal status by excelling at a field of career that is in demand. My dream is to become a computer software engineer or a bio-medical engineer, does my choice of study fields acffect in any way my path to legal status?

Please help me! I need to know if all the effort I am putting in my education will be worth it at the end? I don't want to end up working in a factory with a fake ID and a useless PhD.

Fgng

2011-02-06 21:18:18 UTC

You are in a very difficult situation since you are here illegally involuntarily and due to your parents choice. However, the law is the law in this country.

Anyone who entered the country illegally (without passing a port of entry or checked by an immigration officer) are automatically ban from entering the United States for 10 years once they are deported or leave voluntarily.

The only way that I foresee a way for you to become legal is that you take it easy and hopefully you find the real love of your life that is a U.S citizen and you both get married. But do it if is real love, defrauding the system can put you in jail and deported.

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2011-02-06 21:07:32 UTC

First of all, of course its worth it. I am personally an immigrant myself, legal however, and found out through personal experience that education means everything in this country.

Next, to answer your question, the ways to get legal status in the United States are countless. If you are able to afford the college education, then your way is easy. If you graduate at the top of your class, or close to the top, then there will be numerous companies that would love to hire you and they will personally take care of your legal status. I am not exactly sure what it is, but I do know there is a certain clause in the numerous USA laws that allows corporations to legalize immigrants as long as they are in the corporation's employment. There is also something in the law books about a university being able to grant a student at least temporary legal status, from within the USA. With temporary status, there are other numerous ways to get permanent. A good route to go would be to speak with an immigration lawyer because they can tell you much more information than I can. In addition, if you find a lawyer with the same nationality as you, they will be much more likely to be able to help you. Cultures tend to stick up for each other.

I am currently a junior in college and I have a friend who is a junior also and he is illegal. It's not stopping him so don't let it stop you.

P.S. Despite what people might say, there are ways around every single law in this country, immigration is no exception. You just have to find your loophole.

2011-02-06 20:53:35 UTC

An illegal cannot adjust status in the US

Marriage and babies will not help either ..that is a myth

To become legal you have to return home

There is a specialty forum one that deals solely with your unique issue. http://immigrate2us.net

There are no options

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2011-02-06 21:23:04 UTC

Man I was like you. I grew up in the United States. I came here when I was only 3 years old. All I ever knew was American culture and I was very integrated with all of what is this society. All my schooling was done here. I struggle in high school because I wanted to get good grades to go to college. I applied to all the universities that I could think off. They all accepted me and asked me to send proof of legal status, that was when my heart was broken. School after school all of them turn me down after accepting me because they said I was NOT a citizen or a permanent resident. I was only 18 and no future. I search for ways to get in college and nothing work. Many colleges told me if I wanted to enter I will had to apply as a foreign student and pay the international student tuition which was to high for me to afford. Well, I didn't know that my parents had apply for permanent resident status 10 years earlier but had never got a reply from INS. From 18 to 25 years old I bounced from job to job doing the jobs that I always said I will not do, because I was going to be my parents' dream for success. At the age of 25 and with no hope all a sudden my parents and I were given an interview with the immigration officer. 3 months later we got our permanent resident cards. The first thing I did was go take the ACT test, which I pass with high scores and I apply for the university. I was accepted fast. Here I'm since the age of 26, now 30 getting two bachelor diplomas and a tech certificate. My next step is to go to graduate school and get either a PhD or Masters in Geographic Information Science. Look you need to apply for papers. It took me over 15 years to get my papers and Iost hope, but because this is a great nation who doesn't forget I'm now am legal and seeking my dream. Don't loose hope. Young people like you is what this country needs. Thats why the Dream Act should have pass to get us out this darkness in the shadows of American society. Keep your head up and search for help.

2011-02-07 06:53:11 UTC

Being here illegally bars you from any of the Norma. Ways to get a green card.

Marriage doesnt help, nothing does

ibu guru

2011-02-06 21:12:30 UTC

There is NO way to "legalize" an illegal alien. You have one - and only one! - chance. If you return to your country of citizenship before you turn 18, your parents' illegal acts will not be held against you, and you can then apply for any visa for which you qualify.

So, make sure you get out of the US before you turn 18 (up to 18-1/2 if you are still in HS on your 18th birthday), and go back to your country. Then if you want to go to college in the US, for example, apply for student visa.

If you do not return to your country, as of your 18th birthday, you are choosing as an adult to violate the law. Thus you become a deportable illegal alien. You are subject to arrest, detention, deportation, and a 10-year bar to reentry. It is, as of 18th BD, no longer a matter of "my parents did it to me," but your own adult choice to break the law. After you turn 18, there is nothing you can ever do to change status - no choice but to return to your country and be barred from reentry for 10 years. Even after completing your 10-year bar to reentry, you are very likely to have great difficulty ever reentering the US. Also, any deportee is unlikely to be able to obtain visas, etc, to travel anywhere. Lawbreakers are not welcome, and countries share this data. You'd be confined to your country of citizenship for the rest of your life, unable to travel on vacations or anything.

What your parents did to you was incredibly cruel, forcing you into this situation. Make them take you back to your country & take care of you, or at least pay for your transportation back to your country, arrange for you to stay with relatives or friends or someone until you can find work, provide the funds for college so you can get a student visa, etc. But be sure you get out of the US before your 18th BD, whatever it takes, if you want a life of your own. Take your one chance before your parents totally ruin your life. And make sure they understand that by breaking the law, they cost you thousands in scholarships, etc, as well as hurting you and potentially ruining your life. But don't you let them ruin it.

Milaska is dead wrong. There are no longer the "loopholes" she speaks of. And you can't change your status by breaking more laws.

2011-02-06 22:25:01 UTC

GO back to your country or wherever your parents brought you from. Then apply as a legal person... YOU will never become legal if you live in the States and expect to get your paperwork