{"id":2100,"date":"2020-06-19T18:26:34","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T01:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pallareslawfirm.com\/?post_type=practice&p=2100"},"modified":"2020-08-29T12:14:50","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T19:14:50","slug":"daca","status":"publish","type":"practice","link":"https:\/\/pallareslawfirm.com\/practice\/daca\/","title":{"rendered":"DACA"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
Is a United States immigration policy that allows some individuals with unlawful presence in the United States after being brought to the country as children to receive a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation and become eligible for a work permit in the U.S. To be eligible for the program, recipients cannot have felonies or serious misdemeanors on their records.\u00a0<\/p>
Unlike the proposed\u00a0DREAM Act, DACA does not provide a path to citizenship for recipients.The policy, an\u00a0executive branch memorandum, was announced by President\u00a0Barack Obama\u00a0on June 15, 2012.\u00a0U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services\u00a0(USCIS) began accepting applications for the program on August 15, 2012.<\/p>
\u00a0T<\/span>he Secretary of Homeland Security announced that certain people who came to the United States as children and meet several guidelines may request consideration of deferred action for a period of two years<\/span>, <\/span>subject to renewal<\/span>. <\/span>They are also eligible for work authorization<\/span>. <\/span>Deferred action is a use of prosecutorial discretion to defer removal action against an individual for a certain period of time<\/span>. <\/span>Deferred action does not provide lawful status<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t