How Does A Blue Card Differ From A Green Card?

Some of the crops that were used to yield a good lot in California are now increasingly

imported to the United States as native farmers cant find workers. One of such crops named Californias asparagus might vanish completely if the demand for specialized asparagus planters and harvesters is not met. This also has something for the Immigration Reform to do with.

Green Card and its Complexity

For decades, the United States green card has been wanted by immigrants from all over the world to enter US and establish their living. Obtaining a green card is not just an easy process and it is not been provided to all categories of employees. Especially when it comes to unskilled labors the process keeps dragging due to the extensive formalities. In order to make it simple and also to meet the demand of farm workers, a bill has been introduced that would grant five-year blue cards to agricultural workers.

What Can a Blue Card do?

The quota would let an agricultural worker who has satisfied certain criteria to be able to remain in the country with his family, in case that individual does agriculture a certain number of days a year. This bill, hosted in both the House and Senate, would grant blue cards to undocumented farm workers if they can demonstrate having worked in American agriculture for at least 150 workdays over the previous two years. This can also be mentioned as Earned Adjustment Program.

Gist of Blue Card

This program could provide up to 1.35 million blue cards over its five-year lifespan. To gain permanent legal status, the worker would have to work in American agriculture for another three to five years after which he/she would be eligible to apply for a green card. Applicants would also have to pay a fine of $500 for existing here illegally, and prove that their taxes are current and that they havent been convicted of a crime.

Who would qualify for Blue Card?

This negotiation only applies to workers in agriculture, primarily employees of farms and farmsteads. Undocumented farmworkers and recent H-2A guest workers wishing to become immigrants would have to complete a two-step process.

Step One: Apply for "Blue Card" Temporary Resident Status.

This law permits a farmworker to apply for a "blue card" (temporary residency) through a government-approved organization, a licensed attorney or a recognized immigration practitioner. The application period would begin seven months after the law is enacted and would last 18 months.

Step Two: Earn Legal Permanent Resident Status

After obtaining "blue card" status, participants must perform agricultural work for at least

100 work days per year for each of 5 years during the 5-year period beginning on the date of enactment of the Act to earn a "green card".

Sham Application

Workers not meeting these requirements, who seem to have filed a sham application, or who don't apply for permanent status by the seventh year would lose their "blue card" status and would be required to leave the country. But for immigrant workers, the bill also would offer a path to filing Citizenship Application Form for those already employed in the country.

by: Hazel Ickes

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