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    Apps. for professional licenses must give immigration status

    Applicants for professional licenses must give immigration status
    By STACY FORSTER
    sforster@journalsentinel.com
    Posted: July 31, 2008
    Madison - Applicants for state professional licenses will have to verify that they are U.S. citizens or have legal immigration status under new Department of Regulation and Licensing rules that take effect today.

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    Credential forms will include a new section that asks an applicant to certify under penalty of law that they are either a U.S. citizen or a qualified alien or non-immigrant here legally.

    All new applicants must supply the information, and people with existing licenses will verify their status the next time they renew their credentials, said department spokesman David Carlson.

    Those who don’t provide such information will not be issued licenses, he said.

    The requirement stems from a legal opinion last year by Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen that the department must institute a procedure for verifying immigration status of applicants.

    Van Hollen said federal law prohibits states from providing benefits — including professional licenses — to illegal immigrants.

    He said that asking applicants about their immigration status would be consistent with the practice of asking for other kinds of evidence from those applying for licenses or credentials.

    The department oversees 350,000 license holders — including 50,000 new credentials a year — and regulates 128 types of credentials in 57 professional fields, from manicurists to dentists.

    The department doesn’t have specific numbers but doesn’t expect the policy to affect many applicants.

    Van Hollen’s opinion suggested the state use a federal database for checking eligibility for other public benefits.

    But the department believes the checkoff process is sufficient, and that verifying status or asking for proof of citizenship or immigration status would put too great a burden on the agency, Carlson said.

    “We’re asking individuals to make a self-certification, and they are in a better position than we are to know exactly what their legal status is,â€
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    Funny how one says it would put too much of a burden on the state to verify status, while another says very few non qualified apply for a license.
    I especially like the part about self certifying legal status. Yes, I bet they get very few who admit the are here illegally.

    This article was posted by FEDUP in the Dallas area. Got my hopes up thinking this was about TEXAS. long, disappointed sigh........

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    Duplicate...listed 15-20 lines below...
    Not serious about illegals, outsourcing and insourcing? Wait until magicians pull illegals out of their hats...

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