Trump administration is indicating this Immigration profit,
American citizenship and immigration services, the federal agency oversees the legal immigration system of the country, Guided officers When determining on Friday to consider additional factors, immigrants applying for American citizenship have a “good moral character”.
Typically, legal immigrants with American permanent residence, also known as a green card, can apply for natural American citizenship after a period of 3- or 5 years depending on their case. Performing “a good moral character” is one of the requirements in the American Immigration Act for American citizenship, long, With passing English and Civics Tests.
For decades, under Republican and Democratic Administration, “good moral character” assessment has been commonly satisfied if applicants have no one Criminal offense US immigration mentioned in law. Unqualified factors ranging from violent crimes such as murder and increased hooliganism to drug offenses and “habitual alcoholic”.
But a policy issued by USCIS on Friday expands the assessment of the “good moral character”, saying that the determination should include “more than a cursory mechanical review focused on the absence of wrongdoings.” Instead, the review, the agency said to its officials, “A overall assessment of a foreign behavior, should follow social norms, and positive contribution that shows good moral character positively.”
The instructions ordering officers to “emphasize” positive characteristics and contributions of applicants, “community participation, family care and relationships,” stable and legitimate “employment, time length of time spent in the US and some of those factors to pay more.
Memo also makes the “maximum investigation” of factors that show the applicants a lack of “good moral character” beyond crimes and disqualify the detailed conduct in the American Immigration Act.
The factors, policy stated, “include tasks that are contrary to the average behavior of citizens in the jurisdiction, where aliens reside,” including the actions that are “technically valid”, but “inconsistent with civil responsibility within the community.” USCIS listed “careless or habitual violations, or harassment or aggressive urge” as some of those tasks.
Finally, the new USCIS policy officials instruct the authorities to weigh the factors that can show that the applicants who are engaged in wrongdoing have rehabilitated, such as complying with probation, paying overdated taxes or children’s support, and getting letters of support from their community.
In the last decade, the US government has naturally shown as an annual citizens among 600,000 and 1 million immigrants, showing USCIS figures.
In a statement by CBS News, USCIS chief spokesperson Matthew Tragser said that this directive is another attempt by the administration of President Trump to “restore” integrity for the US immigration system.
“American citizenship is the gold standard of citizenship – it should only be introduced for the world’s best,” Trageser said. “Today, USCIS is adding a new element to the naturalization process that not only embraces the culture, history and language of America, but also ensures good moral character, ensuring.”
During the Biden administration, a former senior USCIS officer Doug Rand suggested that the Trump administration policy is designed to intimidate legal migrants from applying for US citizenship and authorities need to impose their “scale thumb” to find more reasons to deny applications.
Rand, citing the context of the policy for traffic infrasturation, said, “They are trying to increase the base for the refusal of American citizenship, which is to incorporate a very harmless behavior to influence the definition of good moral character.”
While the Trump administration has initiated a highly visible crack on illegal immigration by deploying thousands of soldiers on the southern border, expanding immigration raids across the country, and rapid tracking exile of those in the US, it has moved together to restrict legal immigration, with low fans.
Trump administration has virtually closed Refugee entryThe biden-era programs abolished, which allowed migrants to be legally, limited visas to some countries and implemented aggressive veating procedures to legal immigration benefits. Those efforts include an extended vet of social media activity and strict screening requirements of legal immigrants for certain applications.
