{"id":10346,"date":"2017-11-01T09:53:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T14:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/?p=10346"},"modified":"2017-11-13T14:18:43","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T19:18:43","slug":"questions-sent-to-uscis-today-re-daca-dds-save","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/01\/questions-sent-to-uscis-today-re-daca-dds-save\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions sent to USCIS today Re; DACA, DDS, SAVE &#8211;  *UPDATED with reply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Below sent to Ms. Pamela Wilson<br \/>\nPublic Affairs Officer<br \/>\nGeorgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama<br \/>\nU.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)<\/p>\n<p>I received a call from Jane Cowley this morning.<br \/>\nDepartment of Homeland Security<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/USCIS_20seal_20.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10189\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/USCIS_20seal_20.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"518\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/USCIS_20seal_20.jpg 518w, https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/USCIS_20seal_20-300x96.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>photo: s3amazonaws.com<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hi, Ms. Wilson, I hope all is well with you.<\/p>\n<p>I am still writing on the DACA\/drivers license topic and have a few more questions, please.<\/p>\n<p>As per<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/16\/uscis-response-to-question-on-daca-status-today-no-legal-status-and-no-lawful-presence\/\"> your response<\/a> to one of my prior inquiries, USCIS stated that <strong>\u201cCurrent law does not grant any legal status for the class of individuals who are current recipients of DACA. Recipients of DACA are currently unlawfully present in the U.S. with their removal deferred.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The language of laws in most, if not all states, including Georgia (OCGA 50-36-1), uses the term \u201clawful presence\u201d as a qualifier for drivers licenses and other public benefits. Applicants with DACA status are verified as eligible by the SAVE system for a Georgia drivers license. I have learned from a Georgia DDS response to a state senator\u2019s question that <strong>\u201cthe SAVE response code for a non-citizen who has been granted deferred action status is 188 \u201cINITL RESP. 188 DACA \u2013 EMLOY AUTH.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Georgia DDS is issuing drivers licenses to DACA recipients based on this response which doesn\u2019t seem to directly address either the legal status or lawful presence of the applicant for a drivers license.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Questions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1) On <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscis.gov\/save\/about-save\">the SAVE website<\/a>, we see that SAVE \u201cverifies an applicant\u2019s immigration or citizenship status within seconds.\u201d The reply \u201cemployment authorized\u201d seems like an E-Verify response to an employment eligibility query, not a SAVE immigration status response. Can you please verify that this is indeed the response an official agency will receive to a query on eligibility for a drivers license involving a DACA recipient?<\/p>\n<p>2) Since DACA does not grant legal status or lawful presence, why\/how is a DDS SAVE query on a DACA recipient for a Georgia drivers license apparently providing a positive response to DDS which then uses that response to issue a drivers license?<\/p>\n<p>I realize this is confusing and I hope that I have made my questions clear. Please call me anytime if I can help clarify. Also, if I am confused or wrong please explain my error?<\/p>\n<p>Se<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, if you can provide answers to insure my accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>D.A. King<br \/>\nMarietta, Ga.<\/p>\n<p>__<\/p>\n<p>Reply, recieved November 9, 2017 3:12 PM<\/p>\n<p>1) On the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscis.gov\/save\/about-save\">\u00a0SAVE website<\/a>, we see that SAVE \u201cverifies an applicant\u2019s immigration or citizenship status within seconds.\u201d \u00a0Is this also the case for an agency query on eligibility for a driver\u2019s\u00a0license involving a DACA recipient?<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em> Yes. DHS issues DACA recipients documentation with information that can be used by SAVE registered agencies, including DMVs, to confirm that DHS has granted the individual DACA.<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2) Since DACA does not grant legal status or lawful presence, why\/how can a Department of Driver Service\u2019s SAVE query on a DACA recipient for a Georgia driver\u2019s\u00a0license provide (*result in) a positive response, which then can be used to issue a driver\u2019s license?<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em> SAVE confirms and provides immigration record information to SAVE registered agencies.\u00a0 SAVE does not make eligibility determinations for benefits.\u00a0 Registered agencies use the information provided by SAVE to determine whether the applicant qualifies for the benefit based on the agency\u2019s eligibility criteria found in their laws, regulations and policies.<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Pamela Wilson<br \/>\n<\/strong>Spokesperson<br \/>\nU.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below sent to Ms. Pamela Wilson Public Affairs Officer Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) I received a call from Jane Cowley this morning. Department of Homeland Security photo: s3amazonaws.com &nbsp; Hi, Ms. Wilson, I hope all is well with you. I am still writing on the DACA\/drivers license [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10346"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10503,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10346\/revisions\/10503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}