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adjust status

adjust status 1) To change from a nonimmigrant visa status or other status 2) To adjust the status of a permanent resident (green card holder). Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...

adjustment to immigrant status

adjustment to immigrant status Procedure allowing certain aliens already in the United States to apply for immigrant status. Aliens admitted to the United States in a nonimmigrant, refugee, or parolee category may have their status changed to that of lawful permanent resident if they are eligible to receive an immigrant visa and one is immediately available. Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ...

maintain status

maintain status To follow the requirements of the visa status and comply with any limitations on duration of stay. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...

status quo

status quo [Latin, state in which] : the existing state of affairs ;specif : the last actual and uncontested state of affairs that preceded a controversy and that is to be preserved by preliminary injunction compare status quo ante ...

status quo ante

status quo ante [Latin, state in which previously] : the state of affairs that existed previously [rescind the contract and restore the parties to the status quo ante] ...

Irremovability, status of

Irremovability, status of, of poor persons, by one year's residence, under (English) Poor Law Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 17), s. 93. See STATUS OF IRREMOVABILITY....

Mulieres ad probationem status hominis admitti non debent

Mulieres ad probationem status hominis admitti non debent [Lat.], women ought not to be admitted to prove the status of a man....

Law of status

Law of status, means the category of law dealing with personal or non-proprietary rights, whether in rem or in personam. It is one of the three departments into which civil law is divider, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 893....

Status of Irremovability

Status of Irremovability, the right formerly ac-quired by a poor person under the (English) Union Chargeability Act, 1865, s. 8, after one year's residence (altered from the three years of an Act of 1861 by the Act of 1865, having been first fixed at five years by an Act of 1846) in any parish, not to be removed therefrom; for the present law see (English) Poor Law Act, 1930 (20 Geo. 5, c. 17), s. 93....

Status de manerio

Status de manerio, the assembly of the tenants in the Court of the lord of a manor, in order to do their customary suit....

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