Anastasia Tonello comments on the proposed ban of birthright citizenship in the US
5 November 2018
Managing Partner and Head of US Practice Anastasia Tonello weighs in on the potentially disastrous consequences of the Trump administration’s proposal to end birthright citizenship in the US for illegal immigrants and non-immigrant aliens.
Anastasia reveals the particularly harsh consequences this order would have on over 300,000 highly skilled Indian guestworkers on H-1B visas. The backlog for green card applications from certain populous countries such as India means that children of these highly-skilled migrants may never be considered for legal permanent residency. This will create an “underclass” of immigrants of certain nationalities, essentially precluding them from being able to settle permanently in the US, even if they are born there and it is the only country they know.
Read the full Bloomberg Law article here.
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