Timeline for Papers, please: Can characters trapped in our reality acquire enough paperwork to be legal?
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| Jul 12, 2015 at 5:41 | comment | added | jamesqf | @thatgirldm: I suppose that depends on what country your alien happens to pop up in. In the US, you can't become legal, barring some act of Congress that grants an amnesty to illegal immigrants who meet certain qualifications. The problem is that any legal immigration status basically requires that you apply from outside the country. | |
| Jul 11, 2015 at 17:38 | comment | added | thatgirldm | It's that I don't know what kinds of physical exams would be involved (if any) and what they're looking for. I also don't know how the laws work in various countries, and I'm not just looking for a yes/no "can they do it", I'm also looking for what the specific blockers are and what would need to be different for it to be possible. | |
| Jul 11, 2015 at 17:14 | comment | added | jamesqf | @thatgirldm: So assuming your character from another world looks outwardly human, what exactly is the difference? The point is that literally millions of people are doing it, so obviously it's possible. | |
| Jul 11, 2015 at 6:22 | comment | added | thatgirldm | There are already ways in our world for various types of people who don't have legal paperwork - some types of illegal immigrants, refugees, mentally ill people, etc - to obtain paperwork providing them some form of legitimacy (not necessarily full citizenship, but some kind of resident alien or similar status). What I'm trying to figure out is whether any of those would work for a (possibly non-human) character from another world. | |
| Jul 10, 2015 at 21:49 | history | answered | jamesqf | CC BY-SA 3.0 |