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BORDER POLICIES:
Border policies are made to secure and screen the country's border and look into people and goods' movement across the border, like trading and moving from one country to another.
ASPECTS OF BORDER POLICIES:
There are various aspects of border policies, such as border securities, immigration policies, worldwide sectors, and customs.
BORDER POLICY OF UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
The USA has developed a border policy to protect and monitor his border. Discussing one of the aspects of America's border policy:
ASPECT OF UNITED STATES OF AMERICA’s BORDER POLICY:
As we know, a border policy has various aspects, out of which, below discussing the USA's immigration policy.
IMMIGRATION POLICY OF UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
America has a very complicated immigration policy; this policy is built on family-based immigration laws, skillful people who are valued to the country's economy, refugees, and diversity visa program. [1]
a. Family-Based Immigration: It is the most important principle for immigration policy. People having permanent residence in the USA are allowed to get some of their family members to the USA. But the immigrants must meet the eligibility criteria of age. They must be an immediate relative like spouse, children, or parents, and also, the citizen who is calling his relatives to the USA must meet the age and financial criteria.The age of unmarried minor children must be less than 21, and for parents, the citizen must be 21 years or older, and there's no age limit for a spouse to be called. If someone wants to get their siblings to the USA, a petitioner must be older than 21 years old and fulfill the financial requirements.
c. Refuges: Various regular admission categories are available to people fleeing persecution or unable to return home due to life-threatening or exceptional circumstances. Refugees are admitted to the United States because they cannot return to their home countries because of their "reasonable fear of persecution" because of their race, social group, political opinion, religion, or national origin. Reception of refugees depends on many factors, including the level of risk, association in a group of particular interest to the United States (appointed annually by the President of the United States and Congress), and whether or not they are may or may not have relatives in the United States. Asylum: Asylum is available to people in the United States seeking protection based on the same five grounds for protection that refugees rely on. You can apply for a port of entry at the time of admission or within one year of your arrival in the United States. Refugees and asylum seekers can become LPR one year after being admitted to the United States as refugees or one year after receiving asylum.
d. The Diversity Visa Program: Immigration Act of 1990 developed the diversity visa program as a devoted passage for immigrants from countries with low immigration rates to the United States. Each year 55,000 visas are randomly assigned to nationals from countries sent fewer than 50,000 people to the United States in the past five years. Of the 55,000, up to 5,000 will be made available under the Nicaraguan Adaptation Program and Central American Assistance Act, launched in 1997, to assist asylum seekers who applied for asylum earlier a certain date. This leads to a reduction in the actual annual limit to 50,000. As of 2020, 5,000 visas are expected by the DOS under the Diversity Visa program to be returned. The eligibility criteria for a diversity visa program are that the applicant must have a high school or equivalent degree or have two years of working or training experience in the past five years. More than 50000 of the immigrants have a flight to the USA by this program in the past five years. [3]
REFERENCE: 1. Eckstein, G., 2013. Rethinking Transboundary Ground Water Resources Management: A Local Approach along with the Mexico–U.S. Border. Georgetown International Environmental Law Review, Vol. 25(1) 2. Alden, Edward, and Schwartz, Liam, 2012. "Faster, Safer and Smarter: A Modern Visa System for the United States." New York: Council on Foreign Relations.
3. Alley, W. M., editor, 2013. Five-Year Interim Report of the United States –Mexico Transboundary Aquifer Assessment Program: 2007–2012
