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Immigration: Questions and Answers on Immigration Reform: Impact on Family-Based Peti
Once again immigration reform is currently being debated.  Currently the bill that was introduced in the Senate Judiciary Committee has received enough votes to pass in the Senate. The Senate's bill has now been sent to the House of Representatives for their vote. Currently, the House is proposing and debating amendments to the bill. If the House and Senate bills are not the same, the two bills will be worked on in a “conference committee” to settle any differences in the bill, and the bill will be sent back to both the House and Senate for final votes. Finally, the bill will be sent to the President to be signed into law. If the President signs the bill, regulations must be written to implement the bill. While we understand that immigration reform has not yet become the law we have received numerous questions about immigration reform. Recently our firm received an inquiry about the possible effect of the proposed immigration reform on sibling petitions. We will discuss this issue in this month's article. More...