Dee Finney's blog September 8, 2014 page 744 OBAMA

9-6-14 - I was in the country somewhere in a very large farmhouse. For some reason we had a whole lot of colorful ducks that were nearly as tall as myself, and they needed to exercise, so I asked permission to let them run around the kitchen table with myself. First we went one direction, and then we went the other direction.

These ducks had colorful feahers on them and I knew they were Jewish ducks and they were not the eating kind - they were nearly as tall as myself.

Ducks are seen many different ways by many different people and it is important to consider your own cultural lens and the way that you perceive ducks when you have a dream about them and you are trying to find out what it means to you.

If you have a dream about duck, ducklings, duck eggs, etc then this means that you basically just need to think about how fortunate you are. Ducks are known for being creatures that represent great fortune. They are great and lucky beasts. This is what they are known most for and why you care about them. Ducks are gorgeous, beautiful, and majestic. Having a dream of ducks means you have been lucky lately or that you will be lucky in the future. This will do you well to know. Just be real and be happy for your fortune.

Ducks are also seen as hunted beings or living in fear. This usually has more to do with the American way of seeing them but duck hunting does not only occur in America and can be seen in cultures all around the world. The reason they are seen this way is difficult to place, but the fact is, the duck is seen as one of the most classically hunted creatures in the world because it just is. There are many people that go after lions, after bears, after elk, moose and all kinds of other came, but iconically speaking and speaking in terms of how they are perceived, ducks still lead the game in how they are seen as hunted beings.

This means that if you have a dream in which you are a duck then you are worried that someone is out to get you. Most of the time this does not mean you are worried that someone is threatening your life. What this usually means is that you are worried that there is someone out there that is trying to make things worse for you or make your life more complicated. They can be out to get you in the sense that they are trying to make things more complicated for you or out to get you in the sense that they are trying to ruin your social life, your job or working environment, etc. You just feel like you are being hunted.

To dream that you are hunting ducks means that you are the predator here. You feel like you are the one that is in control here and it is frightening others. While it might be a good thing to be in control sometimes especially if you are the one that is usually being picked on, it is best to handle this situation like you are playing with fire. You don’t want to hurt anyone else and it will make things terrible for you if you do not do all you can to make sure that you do not come off as the predator here then you will find it hard to keep your friends in a situation like this. It is important to keep note of where you stand on this issue and how you hope to repair any relationships that you might damage when you are wielding this absolute power. If there’s anything you should have learned in government class it is that power corrupts.
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9-6-14 NAP DREAM - This dream was 'about' the other dream, and the voice said, "The duck trend"...do they mean 'duck and cover" trend?

9-6-14 NAP DREAM. I was dreaming about the duck people again, and saw these numbers... 740, 60%, and the word snowman.

After saying he would overhaul the nation's immigration system by the end of summer, President Obama has now decided to delay any action until after the November elections.

The president told Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd in an interview airing Sunday that the surge of unaccompanied children at the Mexican border changed the politics of the issue.

"The truth of the matter is that the politics did shift midsummer because of that problem," Obama said in the interview. "I want to spend some time, even as we're getting all our ducks in a row for the executive action, I also want to make sure that the public understands why we're doing this, why it's the right thing for the American people, why it's the right thing for the American economy."

The administration says Obama will take executive action to address the nation's undocumented population before the end of the year. But furious immigration activists are deriding the delay as a reversal of Obama's previous promises to curb deportations before the end of the summer.

After efforts to pass a comprehensive immigration bill died in the Republican-led House of Representatives, Obama gave a fiery White House speech in June saying he would instead do it on his own. During that speech, he said, "If Congress won't do their job, at least we can do ours."

But the president came under intense pressure from Democrats facing tough re-election battles who feared a stiff Republican backlash come November if the president made his announcement before then. Among their chief concerns was a plan to protect millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation, a move largely supported by immigration advocates but reviled as "amnesty" by many Republicans.

"The reality the president has had to weigh is that we're in the midst of the political season, and because of the Republicans' extreme politicization of this issue, the President believes it would be harmful to the policy itself and to the long-term prospects for comprehensive immigration reform to announce administrative action before the elections," a White House official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the decision, said earlier Saturday in a statement. "Because he wants to do this in a way that's sustainable, the President will take action on immigration before the end of the year."

In his Meet the Press interview, Obama rejected criticism that the postponement is a political tactic.

"What I'm saying is that I'm going to act because it's the right thing for the country," he said. "But it's going to be more sustainable and more effective if the public understands what the facts are on immigration, what we've done on unaccompanied children, and why it's necessary."

Saturday's announcement was immediately blasted by immigration groups that have been pressing the White House to "go big." Officials at the Service Employees International Union, one of the strongest supporters of changing the immigration system, said they were "deeply disappointed but not paralyzed." Arturo Carmona, executive director of Presente.org, a group that supports legalizing undocumented immigrants, called the delay "shameful."

"The president's latest broken promise is another slap in the face of the Latino and immigrant community," said Cristina Jimenez, managing director for United We Dream, a group of young undocumented immigrants pushing for an end to deportations.

"Where we have demanded leadership and courage from both Democrats and the president, we've received nothing but broken promises and a lack of a political backbone. To wait nine more weeks means the president has agreed to deport more than 70,000 people, more than 1,100 every day, and continues cementing his legacy as the deporter-in-chief."

The rush of Central American children across the nation's southwest border came at a difficult time for the White House. As Obama requested $3.7 billion from Congress to deal with the wave, a request that Congress has not yet acted on, the rush highlighted the nation's porous border and kept the gaps in the immigration system in the headlines throughout the summer.

Adding to Obama's problems were complaints from vulnerable Democrats in the upcoming elections.

Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, which opposes legalizing undocumented immigrants, said any executive action would have hurt Democratic Sens. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Mark Pryor of Arkansas, Kay Hagan of North Carolina and others. All of them had made statements in recent weeks urging caution and saying Congress should be the one changing the nation's immigration system.

Doing something before the elections, Krikorian said, would have been "Christmas in September" for their Republican opponents.

"I think that significantly limited his political maneuvering," he said. "Political commonsense prevailed at the White House."

Obama's decision to delay the announcement could also depress the Hispanic vote, in turn hurting Democrats who need that voting bloc to win in November. Lynn Tramonte, deputy director of America's Voice, an immigrant rights group that had been urging Obama to act, said the delay will hurt candidates such as Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., who have large Hispanic constituencies who may stay home because of Obama's decision.

"I hope that (reduced Latino turnout) doesn't happen," she said. "But if it does, it's on the Democrats."

Obama made the decision Friday as he returned from a NATO summit in Wales, according to the Associated Press, which first reported the delay. White House officials said Obama made several calls to allies from Air Force One and continued making those calls Saturday morning.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Obama is playing "Washington politics at its worst."

"What's so cynical about today's immigration announcement is that the president isn't saying he'll follow the law — he's just saying he'll go around the law once it's too late for Americans to hold his party accountable in the November elections," McConnell said. "President Obama should enforce the law, and if he would like changes, Republicans and Democrats alike have said he must work with Congress in a transparent, accountable way — not rewrite the laws on his own."

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said the fault lies with House Republicans who failed to take up immigration reform despite passage of the Senate bill.

"I know that the president is determined to act, and when he does I support a broad use of his authority to fix as much of our broken immigration system as he can through executive action," Reid said. "After the president takes these initial steps, it will be up to Congress to finish the job and enact a permanent solution that fixes our immigration system once and for all."

White House immigration adviser Cecilia Muñoz is taking the heat for Obama

Anti-deportation protesters chant in front of the White House on Aug. 28. White House adviser Cecilia Muñoz has often been called upon to respond to such critics. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

She is President Obama’s conscience on immigration — and his chief defender against those who say he’s done too little to protect immigrant families.

Which means it has been a busy summer for Cecilia Muñoz, the president’s domestic policy director and the highest-ranking Hispanic official in the White House.

In June, Muñoz stood up for her boss during a tense meeting between Obama and 20 immigrant rights advocates who accused him of moving too quickly to deport thousands of Central American children. “No, you’re confused,” she told them. “People have misconstrued this.”

Last week, she was among the West Wing staffers delivering the news to Democrats on Capitol Hill and to activists that Obama would postpone plans to use executive action to defer deportations for many of the nation’s 11 million undocumented immigrants.

For Muñoz, 52, it’s a role she has played since joining Obama’s staff in 2009 after a two-decade career as an outspoken immigrant rights leader. Time and again, Obama has relied on her to justify the immigration policies she fought so fiercely when she was on the other side of the table. Muñoz has been called upon to defend an administration that has deported more than 2 million people, most of them Hispanic. And time and again, she has had to defend a president whose inability to stem many of the removals has disappointed Latino voters, who supported him in record numbers.

Cecilia Muñoz is President Obama’s domestic policy director and the highest-ranking Hispanic official in the White House. (Pool/Getty Images)

This has often placed Muñoz in the uncomfortable position of squaring off against her former colleagues. This past spring, Janet Murguía, president of the National Council of La Raza, where Muñoz served as vice president, dubbed Obama the “deporter in chief.”

“You can see it in her body language at our meetings, where you could tell she’s visibly pained by the conversation or frustrated,” said Marielena Hincapié, executive director of the National Immigration Law Center. “No doubt this has been a really, really trying and challenging period for her. She really believes the president wants to get immigration reform done and none of us give him enough credit.”

The collapse of comprehensive immigration legislation in Congress this summer has raised the stakes for Obama. He pledged in June to use executive authority to remake border-control policies by summer’s end. But the White House announced Saturday that he would not act until after the midterm elections in November because of political concerns from jittery Democrats. The news only added to the list of disappointments for Latinos, activists and some Democratic lawmakers.

Advocates who are pushing Obama to grant deportation relief to millions of undocumented immigrants say this represents the last chance for the president — and, by extension, Muñoz — to salvage their legacy in the Hispanic community.

Muñoz declined to comment for this story, but in an interview with MSNBCon Monday, she blamed Republicans for not supporting an immigration bill.

“I’ve spoken with some of them [in the immigrant community], and what I said is the president wants the same things you want,” she said. “The emotion on this is very high for completely understandable reasons, and frankly the president shares that emotion, and so do I.”

Years of advocacy

The daughter of Bolivian immigrants, Muñoz grew up in a Detroit suburb, and she recalled a friend telling her that her parents would belong in an internment camp if the United States were to become involved in Latin America’s civil wars in the early 1980s.

“My outrage that day became the propellant of my life, driving me straight to the civil rights movement,” she wrote in an essay for NPR.

It also drove her straight into the center of Washington’s immigration debate. Advocates credit Muñoz with standing up to the Clinton White House to restore food stamp assistance to legal permanent residents in 1997. The late senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) consulted her regularly as he and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) developed comprehensive immigration legislation in 2007, a bill that failed to pass the Senate.

In 2000, Muñoz’s work on immigration policy earned her a prestigiousMacArthur Foundation “genius” grant of $500,000.

Muñoz was “a ferocious advocate,” said Frank Sharry, executive director of America’s Voice. “She was the kind of person who was welcomed warmly when she talked with grass-roots advocates who were skeptical of what happened in Washington.”

Muñoz also caught the eye of Obama, who, shortly after joining the Senate in 2005, held a meeting with her and other civil rights leaders. As Congress debated immigration legislation in 2006 and 2007, Obama brought Muñoz to his office for regular policy briefings and occasionally called her on her cellphone.

When he was running for president in 2008, Obama delivered a campaign address at the National Council of La Raza convention in San Diego, promising to make immigration reform a “top priority in my first year as president.”

Muñoz turned down the initial offer to join his White House staff as director of intergovernmental affairs because of personal concerns. Her mother had recently died, and Muñoz and her husband, Amit Pandya, a human rights lawyer, were raising two teenage daughters.

She was accepted only after Obama called her and made a personal appeal while she was in the car with one of her daughters

“You had the first African American president, and this was an issue, like so many issues, where a more progressive vision of policy had been on ice for many years because of [George W.] Bush,” said Angela Kelley, a friend of Muñoz’s who serves as vice president of immigration policy at the Center for American Progress. “She had a chance to do it from somewhere different at an extraordinary moment in history.”

If Muñoz was eager to get started on sweeping reform, others in the Obama White House were not. Obama’s first chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, had referred to immigration as the “third rail of American politics” while serving as head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

In the first two years of Obama’s presidency, when Democrats had control of both houses of Congress, the White House put most of its political muscle into securing an economic stimulus and a health-care overhaul. White House officials emphasize that the president helped push the Dream Act, which offered legal status for young immigrants brought to the country as children, through the House in 2010 before it failed in the Senate.

Defending deportations

In the meantime, however, the administration ramped up deportations of undocumented immigrants, betting that a strong enforcement record would mitigate Republican arguments, in the debate over comprehensive reform, that the border was not secure.

In October 2011, the White House dispatched Muñoz to defend the deportation policies on a PBS documentary, “Lost in Detention.” Responding to a question, Muñoz said that “even broken laws have to be enforced,” and she added that the administration had to fulfill the congressional budget mandate that allocated resources to deport 400,000 people a year.

Within days, Presente.org, a Latino rights group, launched a petition saying she had misrepresented the facts. Muñoz “used to be a champion for immigrant rights. Now she is the main defender of failed programs,” the petition said.

Murguía, who worked in the Clinton White House, said she understands the competing pressures her former deputy has faced. Muñoz is a loyal lieutenant who, “if her point of view does not prevail, will go out and defend the administration’s position,” Murguía said. “She does this even if it happens to come at a great cost to her personally.”

Friends vehemently dispute criticism that Muñoz has betrayed her values. The administration has revamped its policies to focus deportations on immigrants who have committed felonies or multiple crimes and those who have recently arrived.

And colleagues point to her influence on Obama’s announcement, in June 2012, that his administration would no longer deport most younger immigrants who had come to the country illegally as children. The decision, which came during the president’s reelection campaign, was considered politically risky by some — but Obama won more than 70 percent of the Latino and Asian American vote that November.

His “deferred action” program has since benefitted more than 580,000 people, and Obama is reportedly considering a major expansion that could benefit millions more immigrants as part of his executive actions.

Muñoz “feels confident in having done the best she could do with the situation handed to her,” Kelley said. “But that’s not to say it doesn’t hurt when some people — friends you’ve worked side by side with for years — are now criticizing you.”

IMMIGRATION LAW

Immigration law refers to national government policies control the phenomenon ofimmigration and deportation to their the legal status of people, in matters such ascitizenship. Immigration laws vary from country to country, as well as according to thepolitical climate of the times, as sentiments may sway from the widely inclusive to the deeply exclusive of new immigrants.

Immigration law regarding the citizens of a country is regulated by international law. The United Nations International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights mandates that all countries allow entry to its own citizens.

Certain countries may maintain rather strict laws which regulate both the right of entry and internal rights, such as the duration of stay and the right to participate ingovernment. Most countries have laws which designate a process for naturalization, by which immigrants may become citizens.

Legal status of persons

Concepts
Administrative detention Citizenship Immigration (illegal) Leave to remain Nationality Naturalization Statelessness
Designations
Administrative detainee Alien Citizen (dual / multiple native-born naturalized) Illegal immigrant Migrant worker Political prisoner Refugee Stateless person
Social politics
Illegal immigration Immigration law Nationalism Nationality law Nativism

Immigration law in the USA

Main article: Immigration to the United States

The immigration laws in the United States have experienced uneven progress. During colonial times independent colonies created their immigration laws. The first law governing the naturalization of foreigners was the Naturalization Act of 1790. However many years later the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed to stop the immigration of Chinese people. The Emergency Quota Act of 1921 and the Immigration Act of 1924 put a quota on how many immigrants were permitted, based on nationality and previous influx years. TheImmigration and Nationality Act of 1952 led to the creation of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, the Department of State, the Department of Labor, and the Department of Health and Human Services. Of the five, the Department of Homeland Security, which replaced the Immigration and Naturalization Service, enforces immigration laws and bestows benefits on illegal immigrants. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Customs and Border Protection. The United States allows more than 1 million illegal immigrants to become Legal Permanent Residents every year, which is more than any other country in the world. The United States also issues more Visas than any country in the world.

Visas in the United States can be broadly separated into two categories: one for people seeking to live in the US; termed Immigrant Visas, and the other for people coming for limited durations, termed Non-Immigrant Visas. The former visa has "per country-caps", and the latter does not. Most non-immigrant visas are for work purposes, and usually require an offer of employment from a US business. Such immigration may involve restriction such as a labor certification to ensure that no American workers are able to fill the role of the job, hence designed to protect wages and conditions. Other categories include student, family and tourist visas. Each visa category is further divided into numerous subcategories; the large number of specific categories has been recommended as a main area for comprehensive immigration reform.

Control measures

To control immigration, many countries set up customs at entry points. Some common location for entry points are airports and roads near the border. At the customs department, travel documents are inspected. Some required documents are a passport, aninternational certificate of vaccination and an onward ticket. Sometimes travelers are also required to declare or register the amount of money they are carrying.

Comparison of immigration visa categories by country

This section is an attempt to classify and bring together information about immigration legislation on a number of countries with high immigration.

Country	Separate article on Country's Immigration Law	Employer Sponsored Work Visa	Independent Work Visa	Businessman, Self-employed or Entrepreneur	Investor	Ph.D. or Scientist	Spouse	Asylum Seeker	By birth while both of parents are foreign nationals	Studying as a migration route	Illegal Migrant	Citizenship	Special arrangements
USA	United States nationality law	Through H1Blottery, many applicants failed to receive a settlement after 6 years and had to leave the country.	EB-1 Extraordinary Ability - for internationally recognized scientists, sportsman etc.		EB-5: you need to invest $500.000	PhDs are generally allowed to apply for an employer-independent EB2 visa			Available			After 5 years of permanent residence known as Green Card	Green Card Lottery
United Kingdom	British nationality law	Tier 2 - settlement (ILR) after 5 years. A limit on number of Tier 2 migrants per year introduced by new government which makes it very difficult to find an employer willing to sponsor the visa. Tier 2 Intra-company transfers do not lead to settlement (ILR).	(practically not available since April 2011) Tier 1 General - settlement (ILR) after 5 years. A limit on 1000 Tier 1 migrants per year introduced by new government. Besides that the migration legislation changes on average every six months which makes Britain not attractive for skilled migrants looking for a second nationality.	Tier 1 Entrepreneur	Tier 1 Investor	There is no specific category here but it is easier for universities (as opposed to businesses) to acquire a Tier 2 visa	ILR is provided after 2 years in marriage or partnership.	UK is a popular destination for asylum seekers. Due to high number of asylum seekers, the Asylum Tribunal seems to be very unlikely to recognize even very irresistible proofs for asylum grounds.	British citizenship can be obtained as a right for anybody who was born in Britain before 1994. After 1994, it can only be obtained by birth if at least one parent was settled there. It is also available as of right for people of whom one parent is a British citizen otherwise than by descent".^[11]All other classes of British Nationality do not confer right of abode in the UK to the holder.	Tier4 Full-time students used to be are allowed to work up to 20 hours a week, which is now changed to 10 hours. After 10 years of continuous presence in the country on residential visas ILR is provided (this is probably not valid any more). For those who graduated in the UK there is [Tier 1 Post Study Work]	After 15 years of continuous illegal but proven presence in the country ILR is provided.	Citizenship is provided after 1 year of Permanent residency. Permanent residency in the UK is known as settlement or "Indefinite Leave to Remain" (ILR).	EU citizens (temporary except Bulgaria and Romania), as created by theTreaty of Rome at 17 have the right to work, provide services or self-employment in theUK See also:Citizenship of the European Union Some commonwealth citizens have right of abode in the UK, which for most practical purposes gives them the same rights as British Citizens in the UK.
Canada	Canadian nationality law	Official information^[12]	Available but Canada reduced the number of jobs in demands. E.g. software engineers are now unable to use this route.^[13]			Federal skilled worker
Australia	Australian nationality law		Available^[14]			Skilled Independent visa (Subclass 189)and Skilled Nominated visa (subclass 190)^[15]
New Zealand	New Zealand nationality law			Available
South Africa	South African nationality law	Corporate worker permit. ^[16]	General work permit, Quota work permit, exceptional skills work permit and Intra-company transfer work permit.^[17]	Business permit. Minimum foreign capital investment ZAR 2,5 Million into book value of business which may be reduced on application. Minimum of 5 South African citizens/residents to be employed. ^[18]	See Business permit. ^[19]	No specific category. May fall under Exceptional Skills or Quota work permit.^[20]	Spousal visa. Proof of cohabitation and shared finances. ^[21]	Asylum seeker temporary residence pending decision whether applicant qualifies for refugee status. After 5 years recognised refugee status may request permission to apply for permanent residence. ^[22]	Not applicable. Children born in South Africa to foreign nationals will obtain the same status as their parents.	Study is viewed in isolation in relation to the course of study. No benefits obtained promoting continued stay.	Arrest, detention, court to decide on outcome. ^[23]	Citizenship may be applied for after 5 years of permanent residence. ^[24]
Guernsey
Jersey
Gibraltar
Isle of Man			Similar to British Tier1 General, but does not lead to EU nationality	Similar to British Tier1 Entrepreneur, but does not lead to EU nationality
Hong Kong		General Employment Policy (GEP); will receive Right of Abode (ROA) in Hong Kong, after 7 years continuous ordinary residence in Hong Kong.	General Points Test (GPT)		Capital Investment Entrant Scheme (CIES); you need to invest HK$10 million except on real estate;^[25]will receive Right of Abode (ROA) in Hong Kong, after 7 years continuous ordinary residence in Hong Kong.	passing General Points Test (GPT) within Quality Migrant Admission Scheme (QMAS)^[26]			Person under 21 years of age born in Hong Kong of foreigner with HK Permanent ID Card, will receive Right of Abode (ROA) in Hong Kong, but not Chinese nationality.^[27]			Foreigner who is a Hong Kong Permanent ID Card holder may naturalise as Chinese national with HKSAR Passport, if applicant has settle in Hong Kong or Chinese territory, has near relatives of Chinese nationals, and other legitimate reasons.^[28]	Mainland Chinaissued a daily quota of 150 One Way Permits to mainland Chinese for Hong Kong settlement;^[29] will receive Right of Abode (ROA) in Hong Kong, after 7 years continuous ordinary residence in Hong Kong; plus the right to apply for aHKSAR Passport.
India	Indian nationality law											After 12 years of residence (of which 1 year should be continuous)
Israel	Israeli nationality law		Not available										Law of Return
European Union	Citizenship of the European Union	Varies by member state	See Blue Card (European Union)
Austria			May be available in the future, called Rot-Weiß-Rot-Card
Belgium
Bulgaria
Cyprus		It is considered to be very unlikely to get nationality through work route	Not available
Czech Republic			Not available
Denmark		Available: Danish Green Card
Estonia
Finland
France			Not available
Germany			Not available										There are programs forContinental Refugees andRepatriates but the rules are severely tightened to prevent as little new migrants as possible to benefit from them.
Greece
Hungary
Ireland			Not available						Available
Italy
Latvia
Lithuania
Luxembourg	Luxembourgian nationality law^[30]
Malta
Netherlands	Dutch nationality law
Poland												^[31]
Portugal
Romania													Special arrangements for citizens of Moldova
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain		Not available
Sweden		^[32]		^[33]				^[34]
Singapore
Norway	Norwegian nationality law						Min 4 years, seeNorwegian nationality law#Naturalisation as a Norwegian citizen for more details.					Min 7 years, seeNorwegian nationality law#Naturalisation as a Norwegian citizen for more details.	Citizens of other Nordic Council countries may naturalise after a two-year residence
Country	Employer Sponsored Work Visa	Independent Work Visa	Businessman, Self-employed or Entrepreneur	Investor	Ph.D. or Scientist	Spouse	Asylum Seeker	By birth	Studying as a migration route	Illegal Migrant	Citizenship	Special arrangements

Details on immigration law of different countries[edit]

Countries where dual citizenship is allowed (green) and prohibited (red)

Country	Requirements and restrictions before settlement	Requirements and restrictions after settlement	Will resident visa holder dependant be allowed to work as well?	Is it possible to bring old parents once got settlement?	Is it guaranteed that immigration legislation would not be changed retrospectively and were there retrospective changes of immigration law previously?	Access to social benefits before settlement	Access to social benefits after settlement	Is it possible to deprive of earned citizenship? (apart from obvious reasons like proven deception in application to citizenship or terrorism)	Would the country require to surrender a previous citizenship(s) to apply for a citizenship of this country?	Would the country require to surrender its citizenship if its citizen applied for a citizenship of other country?
USA			No						No	No, but you will be required to pay taxes to US government regardless where the income is earned
United Kingdom	No more than 180 days spent overseas within 5 years, no more than 90 days per trip.	Settlement would be cancelled after certain number of days spent abroad	Yes, dependants will have a right to work	Theoretically you can bring a single parent if you are the only supporter. Many people had to do it through a court.	It has been changed retrospectively in the past and likely to change retrospectively in the future	No access to public funds.	Yes	Yes, for potentially unlimited number of reasons British nationality law#Deprivation of British nationality	No British nationality law#Dual nationality and dual citizenship	No British nationality law#Dual nationality and dual citizenship
Canada									No
Australia
New Zealand
Israel								^[35]	Yes, unless citizenship obtained by Law of Return
Germany									Yes
Ukraine										Yes
Norway Norwegian nationality law								Yes Norwegian nationality law#Loss of Norwegian citizenship	Yes Norwegian nationality law#Dual citizenship	Yes Norwegian nationality law#Dual citizenship
Russia									Yes	No
Azerbaijan										Yes
China										Yes
Denmark										Yes
Japan										Yes
India										Yes

Immigration regulation is the control of the people, and their numbers, who may enter a nation's sovereign territory. It applies both to persons seeking to live and work in a particular nation (or part of it) and tourists, persons on layover due to travel issues, and those wishing to study or otherwise make use of a country's facilities.

Immigration control of one form or another is imposed by most countries. It is an inherent right of a sovereign state.

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