1. But applicants will be given a receipt, along with their old green card, to use as proof of legal residency. 2. And the proposal calls for granting legal residency to undocumented agricultural workers already employed on U.S. farms. 3. As a result, their applications for legal residency will be streamlined, and they cannot be deported while that process is under way. 4. At Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, officials have begun to make access to care much harder when patients cannot prove legal residency or an ability to pay. 5. -- Guest workers should eventually qualify for legal residency by earning points for time worked here. 6. -- Legal permanent residency for five years, or for three years if married to a U.S. citizen. 7. But his aides have said the proposal will not include a provision for granting the temporary workers legal residency. 8. But several Mexican-American groups and immigrant advocacy organizations have said they will not support a program unless it provides the workers some chance at legal residency. 9. But Lopez Obrador faces questions over legal residency requirements. |