Permanent Resident - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: permanent residentlawful permanent resident (lpr)
lawful permanent resident (lpr) A person who has immigrated legally but is not an American citizen. This person has been admitted to the U.S. as an immigrant and has a Permanent Resident Card, Form I-551 also known as green card. It is a wallet-sized card showing that the person is a lawful permanent resident (immigrant) in the United States. This person is also called a legal permanent resident, a green card holder, a permanent resident alien, a legal permanent resident alien (LPRA) and resident alien permit holder. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...
permanent resident alien
permanent resident alien an alien admitted to the United States as a lawful permanent resident. Permanent residents are also commonly referred to as immigrants. Lawful permanent residents are legally accorded the privilege of residing permanently in the United States. They may be issued immigrant visas by the Department of State overseas or adjusted to permanent resident status by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in the United States. Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ...
permanent resident
permanent resident Any person not a citizen of the United States who is residing in the U.S. under legally recognized and lawfully recorded permanent residence as an immigrant. Also known as "Permanent Resident Alien," "Lawful Permanent Resident," "Resident Alien Permit Holder," and "Green Card Holder." Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ...
lawful permanent resident alien (lpra)
lawful permanent resident alien (lpra) Lawful permanent resident. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...
Reside
Reside, means dwell permanently or for a considerable time, to have one's settled or usual abode, to live in or at a particular place, Oxford Dictionary.Means dwell permanently or for a considerable time; to have one's settled or usual abode; to live in or at a particular place. The meaning, therefore, covers not only the place where the person has a permanent residence but also the place where the person has resided for a 'considerable time', (Oxford Dictionary). See also Union of India v. Dudh Nath Prasad, (2000) 2 SCC 20.Means live, abide, sojourn, stay, remain, lodge. To settle oneself or a thing in a place, to be stationed, to remain or stay, to dwell permanently or continuously, to have a settled abode for a time, to have one's residence or domicile; specifically, to be in residence, to have an abiding place, to be present as an element, to inhere as a quality to be vested as a right, Black's Law Dictionary, 5th Edn. See also Union of India v. Dudh Nath Prasad, (2000) 2 SCC 20.Me...
conditional residence visa
conditional residence visa If you have been married for less than two years when your husband or wife (spouse) gets lawful permanent resident status (gets a green card), then your spouse gets residence on a conditional basis. After two years you and your spouse must apply together to the Department of Homeland Security to remove the condition to the residence. The investor visa (EB5 or T5/C5) is also a conditional residence. It requires an application procedure after two years to remove the condition on the permanent residence. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...
Resides
Resides, it contemplates not only permanent residence but also temporary residence. Residence only connotes that a person eats, drinks and sleeps at that place, and not that he should own it, Sri Kishore Chandra Singh Deo v. Babu Ganesh Prasad Bhagat, AIR 1954 SC 316 (320): (1954) SCR 919. [Registration Act, 1908, s. 33(1)(a)](ii) The expression 'resides' implied something more than a brief visit but not such continuity as to amount to a domicile, Jagir Kaur v. Jaswant Singh, AIR 1963 SC 1521 (1524): (1964) 2 SCR 73.(iii) 'Resides' means to make an abode for a considerable time; to dwell permanently or for a length of time; to have a settled abode for a time, Jeewanti Pandey v. Kishan Chandra Pandey, AIR 1982 SC 3 (5): (1981) 4 SCC 517. [Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (25 of 1955)]...
returning resident
returning resident Any Lawful Permanent Resident who has been outside the United States and is returning to the U.S. Also defined as a "special immigrant." If outside of the U.S. for more than 180 days, must apply for readmission to the U.S. If outside of the U.S. for more than one year and is returning to his or her permanent residence in the United States, usually must have a re-entry documentation from USCIS or an immigrant visa from the Department of State. Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ...
Ordinarily resides
Ordinarily resides, the expression 'ordinarily resides' signifies something more than a temporary residence. When a person leaves a place where he had been residing a permanent resident for good i.e., with no intention to come back and goes to some other place to live there, the former place where he used to live, classes to be his ordinary place of residence and the later place becomes his ordinary place of residence. The question of residence is largely a question of intention. However in cases of minor no question of intention can arise. The place has to be determined by finding out as to whether the minor was ordinarily residing and where such residence would have continued but for the recent removal of the minor to different place, Jagdish Chandra Gupta v. Vimla Gupta, AIR 2003 All 317....
resident alien
resident alien Applies to non-U.S. citizens currently residing in the United States. The term is applied in three different manners; please see Permanent Resident, Conditional Resident, and Returning Resident Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ...
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