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Permanent residency permits to be granted much faster
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Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
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February 11, 2008
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WASHINGTON (MCT) - In a major policy shift aimed at reducing a
ballooning immigration backlog, the Department of Homeland Security
is preparing to grant permanent residency to tens of thousands of
applicants before the FBI completes a required background check.
Those eligible are immigrants whose fingerprints have cleared the
FBI database of criminal convictions and arrests, but whose names
have not yet cleared the FBI's criminal or intelligence files after
six months of waiting.
The immigrants who are granted permanent status, more commonly
known as getting their green cards, will be expected eventually to
clear the FBI's name check. If they don't, their legal status will
be revoked and ...
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