Sentence examples for applying for status from inspiring English sources

Small wonder the city is applying for status as a Unesco City of Literature.

The bill doesn't make anything easy enough to be called "amnesty," especially not considering the 10-year probationary period and fines and back taxes that undocumented immigrants who are applying for status will have to pay.

The back-and-forth started when Ocasio-Cortez on Sunday pointed out the parallels between migrants fleeing violence in Central America and other instances in the past century of people "asking to be considered a refugee & applying for status" ― including "Jewish families fleeing Germany".

But for some of the nearly 15,000 people who have applied for status under the deferred action program in North Carolina, the pink-tinged licenses are humiliating.

The group that sued to overturn Montana's anticorruption law misled the IRS when it applied for status as a "social welfare" group.

In 2011, she used legal aid to apply for status but her application was refused and she cannot now appeal the decision because legal aid is no longer available for immigration cases not involving detention or asylum.

Under normal Immigration Service procedures, a visitor whose third-preference petition is approved is permitted to stay until a visa number becomes available, at which point he formally applies for status as a permanent resident.

(The 2001 bill would have required undocumented immigrants to apply for status before they turned 21).

The process was trickier before 2013, when the Obama administration created a provisional unlawful presence waiver, allowing undocumented spouses to apply for status while remaining in the US.

If DOMA, or the Defense of Marriage Act, is repealed than many couples like Brian could apply for status within the United States.

Spires lived with the weight of this experience until 2010 when "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" was repealed and Spires became eligible to apply for status change.