You must go home and come back to get a green card. With Z Visa you can stay here forever as long as you renew it and pay fees
The “return home” requirement will probably be whittled away after the bill is passed
What I’m saying is that they’ve decided that the solution to the ‘amnesty’ complaints is to put the ‘touch’ back FIRST. And they’ll sell it by saying that since they all have to go home and wait in line, it’s not amnesty. They just won’t tell you that they don’t have to WAIT AT HOME.
PENCE PLAN:
“Workers here illegally now would need to leave the country and apply for re-entry. The program would be administered by private companies operating “Ellis Island Centers” outside the country.
The compromise has already won encouraging words from President Bush, and it could bridge the gap between a comprehensive immigration reform plan that passed the Senate in May and an enforcement-only bill passed by the House last December. The Pence-Hutchison plan would cut the Gordian knot of objections to “amnesty” by requiring that workers leave the country and re-enter legally after a short period of time rather than legalizing them while they are here.”
http://spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=10213
“The return home requirement will probably be whittled away after the bill is passed”
Bank on it!