Immigration Law Dictionary Online
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It is a process which allows an alien to obtain lawful permanent resident status in the United States without having…
It is a permit for someone to stay legally in the United States. Admission also attaches a number of legal…
It is a financial support given by a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident to an alien who is attempting…
“Aggravated felony” is a term of art used to describe a category of offenses carrying particularly harsh immigration consequences for…
Foreign-born persons who have not been naturalized to become U.S. citizens under federal law and the Constitution. Only “aliens” are…
A status given by the US government to a person who applies and shows that it is likely that he/she…
It is an identity card issued by a consular officer to an alien who is resident in a foreign contiguous…
It is a form of relief for a lawful permanent resident who has been lawfully admitted as a permanent residence…
It is a process by which a beneficiary of an immigration petition who is outside the U.S. applies for an…
It is a criminal offense that shocks the consciousness of the court; CIMT is not defined in the INA or…
The federal department that rules all matters relating to homeland security. The immigration functions of the department are administered by…
Grounds or Acts that make a person subject to deportation. Deportation. It means the expulsion of a person or group…
It is a citizenship conveyed to children through the naturalization of parents or, under certain circumstances, to foreign-born children adopted…
It is an annual immigration visa lottery through which nationals of countries which the U.S. considers to be under-represented through…
It is the status of a person who is a legal citizen of two or more countries. Dual Nationality results…
It is Form I-688B issued by the USCIS proving the rights of foreign aliens to accept an employment in the…
It is nonimmigrant visa category for persons to participate in exchange visitor programs in the United States with the purpose…
It is a process of ejecting the person seeking admission to the United States even when he or she arrives…
It is a process authorizing the ICE to quickly remove certain inadmissible aliens from the United States.
It is a document that allows an alien to become a lawful permanent resident of the U.S. and to work…
It is a document issued by a U.S. consular officer abroad that allows you to travel to the United States…
An attorney appointed by the Attorney General to act as an administrative judge within the Executive Office for Immigration Review.…
It is a number of grounds that make a person ineligible for lawful admission into the United States.
It is obligatory process that all persons who arrive in the country must go through at the border. A person…
To qualify for the green card in the EB-2 or EB-3 green card categories, the immigrant worker must obtain approval…
Labor condition application (LCA), Form ETA 9035/9035E is a document that a prospective H-1B employer files with ETA when it seeks to employ…
It is a person who is allowed to reside indefinitely within a country despite not having citizenship.
It is a program that allows to receive temporary residence status to certain aliens. Synonyms are also “temporary resident status”…
It is a person who does not have immigration intentions and can establish that he or she has a residence…
It is a document that allows an individual to come to the United States temporarily and for a limited purpose.…
It is a permission allowing a person to physically enter the U.S. for a limited purpose, such as applying for…
PERM is the U.S. Department of Labor’s most recent program for permanent labor certification program. It was officially promulgated on…
There are two separate preference categories established for permanent U.S. immigration: family-based and employment-based. The family-based categories require an immediate…
It is a process of inspection of all airport passengers before they leave a foreign country during which they fill…
For some family-based and some employment-based applications for legal permanent residence it is the date on which the initial part…
An alternative method of processing an application for labor certification, where the employer demonstrates sustained and unsuccessful attempts to recruit…
Any person who is outside any country of such person’s nationality or, in the case of a person having no…
It is a legal proceeding through which immigration officials seek to remove a foreign national from the United States for…
There are 5 offices which handle the filing, data entry, and adjudication of certain applications for immigration services and benefits.
It is a networked computer system set up in the United States to track and monitor information on non-immigrant students…
It is temporary status that the U.S. government occasionally gives to nationals of particular countries which have undergone extraordinary physical…
It is time accumulated in the U.S. after a foreign national’s authorized stay expires. This can lead to problems with…
U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology Program. It is a program that allows to collect information about the entry and…
A stamp placed in a passport that allows their holders to enter the United States according to the conditions for…
The Visa Waiver Program (VWP) allows citizens of certain countries to travel to the U.S. for up to 90 days without…
It means that you agree to leave the United States, without attempting to assert any rights to stay.
There is number of grounds of admissibility which can be waived under certain circumstances. At the same time the waivers…
Withholding of removal is similar to asylum in that an individual must prove that there is some type of threat…
Provisional status given by the government to aliens, allowing them to work legally in this country. It certifies that they…
USCIS can make an exception (or "waiver") from the requirement that applicants in the EB-2 category must obtain approval of…
Exemption from the labor certification requirement can be obtained by aliens with exceptional ability in the sciences or the arts (not business…
Special immigrant visas (which lead to lawful permanent resident status and green cards upon arrival in the U.S.) are available…
Getting an EB-5 project a targeted employment area (TEA) designation can be incredibly important for EB-5 investors. The required EB-5…
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