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Sponsors of temporary visitors
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Posted on Dec 26 2008
[B]Q: Are sponsors of temporary alien visitors require to be staying in the CNMI?
A: [/B]All persons seeking to sponsor aliens whether as temporary visitors or for a longer term must maintain residence within the CNMI.
However, this requirement does not apply to a sponsor who is out of the Commonwealth on orders from any branch of the military service of the U.S. or a National Guard of any State, or Reserve Unit, but who entered the service from the CNMI and who intends to return to the Commonwealth upon completion of the tour of duty, according to the CNMI Immigration Rules and Regulations. The Regulations state that sponsors living outside the CNMI do not qualify.
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[B]Q: Are businesses that are barred from hiring alien workers permitted to sponsor aliens?A:[/B] The Regulations state that the Division of Immigration may refuse to allow a person or business to be a sponsor if that person or business has been barred from employing foreign national workers, provided however, an individual so barred may sponsor an immediate relative.
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[B]Q: Does sufficient income matter in allowing a person to sponsor an alien?A:[/B] The Division of Immigration may refuse to allow a person to be a sponsor of an alien applying in an entry class other than as an immediate relative if the sponsor fails to demonstrate sufficient income to ensure that all expenses of the alien will be paid and the alien does not become a burden on the public services of the CNMI.
The Regulations require that to be eligible as a sponsor of an alien in these entry classes, the sponsor must demonstrate income over the immediately preceding four months at a rate that will provide a gross annual income of at least $20,000 or the sponsor must demonstrate an average bank balance of $3,000 for the immediately preceding three months. The Immigration director may also waive this income requirement in the interests of the CNMI.
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