Citizenship Act - Law Dictionary Search Results
nacara
nacara Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act. Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
sui juris
own behalf : not subject to the authority of another 2 : qualified to enjoy full rights of citizenship (as of holding public office or serving on a jury) … sui juris [Latin, of one's own right] 1 : having full legal capacity to act on one's own behalf : not subject to the authority of another 2 : qualified to enjoy full
subject to the numerical limit
the Immigration Act of 1990. The largest categories are: family-sponsored preferences; employment-based preferences; and diversity immigrants. Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
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irca
irca See Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
immigration act of 1990
admission categories, revised and extended the Visa Waiver Pilot Program, and revised naturalization authority and requirements. Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services … immigration act of 1990 Public Law 101-649 (Act of November 29, 1990), which increased the limits on legal immigration to
amerasian act
December 31, 1950, and before October 22, 1982, and have been fathered by a U.S. citizen. Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services … amerasian act The law provides for the immigration to the United States of certain Amerasian children. In order to qualify
immigration and nationality act
conventions of the United States, relates to the immigration, temporary admission, naturalization, and removal of aliens. Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services … immigration and nationality act The Act (INA), which, along with other immigration laws, treaties, and conventions of the United States, relates to
immigration reform and control act (irca) of 1986
agricultural workers, sanctions for employers who knowingly hire undocumented workers, and increased enforcement at U.S. borders. Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services … immigration reform and control act (irca) of 1986 Public Law 99-603 (Act of 11/6/86), which was passed in order to control and deter
Alien
person nor a citizen of the Republic of Ireland. Aliens therefore include both persons having the nationality or citizenship of some other sovereign State recognized by the United Kingdom. Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 4(2), 4th Edn., … born within His Majesty's dominions and allegiance (q.v.). See definitions in the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Acts, 1914 and 1933, infra. At common law aliens were subject to very many disqualifications, the nature of which
special immigrants
fiscal year 1992 and subject to limitation under the employment-based fourth preference beginning in 1992; persons who lost citizenship by marriage; persons who lost citizenship by serving in foreign armed forces; ministers of religion and other religious … and children; certain employees and former employees of the U.S. Government abroad, their spouses and children; Panama Canal Act immigrants; certain foreign medical school graduates, their spouses and children; certain retired employees of international organizations, their spouses
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