The Orange Card itself will remain valid for a period at least 8 ½ years, or until the holder’s permanent status is granted. The second step involves filing an application for permanent resident status within the first 180 days after the USCIS makes the permanent resident application available. Continued validity of the Orange Card depends upon the card holder maintaining steady employment in the US the USCIS could revoke the orange card if the holder is out of work for more than 90 consecutive days.
The Orange card will be issued with special, fraud resistant and biometric features and will indicate boldly that the holder is allowed to live and work legally in the US. All information contained in the application will be treated with confidentiality and cannot be used to institute removal proceedings against an applicant. 1225, any person in the US in “unlawful status” prior to January 7, 2004, as well as the spouse and children of such a person, will be issued an “ORANGE CARD” no more than 30 days after the applicant files for conditional resident status and has completed all background criminal and security checks. 1225 will accord applicants who arrived in the US prior to Januan opportunity to obtain an “Orange Card” as proof of lawful conditional resident status and the legal right to work in the US, en route to permanent resident status and eventual citizenship. Hagel’s bill offers a “tough but fair” solution to the country’s most pressing immigration issue. Focusing on an effort to resolve the status of some 18 million “undocumented” persons in the US currently, rather than creating a “guest worker” program to appease hard-line anti-immigrant politicians, Mr. Marking what could be the beginning of the end to partisan infighting in the US Congress over immigration reform, Senator Chuck Hagel (R-Nebraska) on Apintroduced the “Immigrant Accountability Act of 2007” (S. Hagel’s bill offers a “tough but fair” solution to the country’s most pressing immigration issue and involves issuing “Orange Cards” to certain immigrants.
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