The next question was about DACA, a program that grants documentation to some young immigrants.
The cities of Shenzhen and Zhuhai offer residency to those who can buy property, and Beijing grants documentation to technical workers with senior qualifications.
Uncle Sam likes the cheap labour, but may never grant you the documentation that will allow you to rise above the untouchable servant caste.
As we mentioned last week in this space (citing earlier reporting by Mervis), congressional staffers from both sides of the aisle spent time this summer at NSF headquarters, poring over grant proposals and related documentation.
Although his application for a Green Card was approved in 1995, immigration officials refused to grant him the proper documentation and Sodhi was forced to take them to court.
This isn't really free money from the government - finding a grant, preparing the necessary documentation, meeting with the right government officials and then reporting on your progress all takes many hours.
But after receiving the documentation, which grants temporary residency with the option to apply for a green card, immigrants tend to report mixed feelings about their new status.
An estimated one in three of the 742,000 "Dreamers" — young people who were brought to this country by their parents without documentation and granted protection from deportation under the Obama administration's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA — lives in California.
We believe that using SDAs as the primary organizing unit for GPR data is one of the problems, and the lack of documentation on the grant negotiation and effort to link submitted proposals with signed grant agreements is another.
