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cut-off date The date that determines whether a preference immigrant visa applicant can be scheduled for an immigrant visa interview in any given month. The cut-off date is the priority date of the first applicant who could not get a visa interview for a given month. Applicants with a priority date before or earlier than the cut-off date can be scheduled. However, if your priority date is later (comes after) the cut-off date, you will need to wait longer, until your priority date is reached (becomes current). To find out whether a preference case is current, see the Visa Bulletin or telephone (202) 663-1541. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...
Cut off
That which cuts off or shortens as a nearer passage or road...
retrogression
retrogression Sometimes a case that is current one month will not be current the next month. This occurs when the annual numerical limit has been reached. This usually happens near the end of a fiscal year (October 1 to September 30 of the next year). When the new fiscal year begins, the Visa Office gets a new supply of visa numbers and usually brings back the cut-off dates to where they were before retrogression. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...
Mutilate
Mutilate, means 'something less than total destruc-tion' or 'to deface'. The law Lexicon, Reprint Edn., 1995 - 'Mutilate to cut off a limb or an essential part of the body; to deprive of some essential part; to render imperfect.' Words and Phrases, Permanent Edition, Vol. 27A - 'Mutilate' means something less than total destruction...... 'To mutilate' in the sense in which it is generally used by law writers and judges, means to render imperfect...... 'mutilate'.......means to destroy or remove a material part of, so as to render imperfect erroneously defined word as applied to articles such as books and manuscripts, rather than defining it as applied to the human body as meaning to cut off a limb or an essential part of the body', the Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Edn., Vol. X, 'Mutilate - To render (a thing, especially a record, book, etc.) imperfect by cutting off or destroying a part. 'Mutilated of things: Having some part cut off or destroyed wanting some portion essential to com...
Snip
To cut off the nip or neb of or to cut off at once with shears or scissors to clip off suddenly to nip hence to break off to snatch away...
bond
bond 1 a : a usually formal written agreement by which a person undertakes to perform a certain act (as appear in court or fulfill the obligations of a contract) or abstain from performing an act (as committing a crime) with the condition that failure to perform or abstain will obligate the person or often a surety to pay a sum of money or will result in the forfeiture of money put up by the person or surety ;also : the money put up NOTE: The purpose of a bond is to provide an incentive for the fulfillment of an obligation. It also provides reassurance that the obligation will be fulfilled and that compensation is available if it is not fulfilled. In most cases a surety is involved, and the bond makes the surety responsible for the consequences of the obligated person's behavior. Some bonds, such as fidelity bonds, function as insurance agreements, in which the surety promises to pay for financial loss caused by the bad behavior of an obligated person or by some contingency over w...
Detruncate
To shorten by cutting to cut off to lop off...
Intercept
A part cut off or intercepted as a portion of a line included between two points or cut off two straight lines or curves...
Lopping
A cutting off as of branches that which is cut off leavings...
Precisive
Cutting off Logic exactly limiting by cutting off all that is not absolutely relative to the purpose as precisive censure precisive abstraction...
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