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preference system The nine categories since fiscal year 1992 among which the family-sponsored and employment-based immigrant preference visas are distributed. The family-sponsored preferences are: 1) unmarried sons and daughters of U.S. citizens; 2) spouses, children, and unmarried sons and daughters of permanent resident aliens; 3) married sons and daughters of U.S. citizens; 4) brothers and sisters of U.S. citizens. The employment-based preferences are: 1) priority workers (persons of extraordinary ability, outstanding professors and researchers, and certain multinational executives and managers); 2) professionals with advanced degrees or aliens with exceptional ability; 3) skilled workers, professionals (without advanced degrees), and needed unskilled workers; 4) special immigrants; and 5) employment creation immigrants (investors). Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ...
preference immigration
preference immigration A system for determining which and when people can immigrate to the United States within the limits of immigration set by Congress. In family immigration preference is based on the status of the petitioner (American citizen or lawful permanent resident) and his/her relationship to the applicant. In employment immigration it is based on the qualifications of the applicant and labor needs in the United States. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...
Preference
Preference, means prior right, advantage, pre-cedence etc., Sher Singh v. Union of India, AIR 1984 SC 200: (1984) 1 SCC 107.The expression 'preference' amongst others means prior right, advantage, precedence etc. It signifies that other things being equal, one will have preference over the others, Sher Singh v. Union of India, AIR 1984 SC 200 (204): (1984) 1 SCC 107: (1984) 1 SCR 464. [Motor Vehicles Act, 1939, s. 47(1H)]The 'preference' envisaged in the Rules, cannot mean, an absolute en bloc preference akin to reservation or separate and distinct method of selection for them alone. A mere rule of preference meant to give weightage to the additional qualification cannot be enforced as a rule of reservation or rule of complete precedence, Andra Pradesh Public Service Commission v. Y.V.V.R. Srinivasulu, (2003) 5 SCC 341 (348): AIR 2003 SC 3961.The expression 'preference' means an equitable apportionment of vacancies reserved for backward classes, Indra Sawhney v. Union of India, AIR 199...
preference
preference 1 : the right to prior payment of a debt [with over the creditors of the heirs or legatees "Louisiana Civil Code"] 2 : the transfer of an insolvent debtor's interest in property to a creditor for an earlier debt that gives the creditor more than the creditor would otherwise receive (as under a bankruptcy settlement) called also voidable preference compare antecedent debt at debt, fraudulent conveyance general assignment at assignment NOTE: Preferences can be voided by a bankruptcy trustee because they diminish the bankruptcy estate out of which other creditors will be paid. Preferences must be made during a period (as 90 days before the date of filing a bankruptcy petition) established by bankruptcy law in order to be voidable. Perfection or grant of a security interest during this period is also a preference. The bankruptcy law states exceptions under which payments to creditors are not voidable preferences. 3 : priority ...
Preferred
Preferred, 'preferred' is a word of dual import; its semantics depend on the scheme and the context; its import must help, not hamper, the object of the enactment even if liberty win language may be necessary. Black's Law Dictionary gives the following meaning: PREFER: To bring before; to prosecute; to try to proceed with. Thus, preferring an indictment signifies prosecuting or trying an indictment. To give advantage, priority, or privilege; to select for first payment, as to prefer one creditor over others. Thus it may mean 'prosecute' or effectively pursue a proceeding or merely institute it. Purposefully interpreted, pre-ferring an appeal mean more than formally filing it but effectively pursuing it, Commissioner of Income Tax v. B.N. Bhattacharjee, AIR 1979 SC 1725 (1734): (1979) 4 SCC 121: (1979) 3 SCR 1133.Preferred, is a word of dual import; its semantics depend upon the scheme and the content; its import must help, not hamper, the object of the enactment even if liberty with la...
country of chargeability
country of chargeability The independent country to which an immigrant entering under the preference system is accredited for purposes of numerical limitations. Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ...
No appeal has been preferred
No appeal has been preferred, the words 'no appeal has been preferred in Order 47, Rule 1(a) would also mean a situation where special leave is not granted. Till then there is no appeal in the eye of law before the Superior Court. The review can be preferred in the High Court before special leave is granted, but not after it is granted. Once special leave is granted the jurisdiction to consider the validity of the High Court's order vests in the Supreme Court and the High Court cannot entertain in review thereafter, unless such a review application was preferred in the High Court before special leave was granted, Kunhayamned v. State of Kerala, (2000) 6 SCC 359: AIR 2000 SC 2587 (2600). (Constitution of India, Article 226)...
Prefer
Prefer, means to bring before; to prosecute; to try; to proceed with. Thus, preferring an indictment signifies prosecuting or trying an indictment, Black's Law Dictionary.Prefer, to apply, to move for; as 'to prefer for costs' is a phrase for 'to apply for costs.'...
Preferential or preference shares or stock
Preferential or preference shares or stock, shares or stock in a company having priority as to payment of dividends of a fixed amount, and, in some cases, of capital upon a winding-up, over the ordinary shares. The dividends are usually contingent upon the profits of each year or half-year. In some cases, however, the arrears of dividend form an accumu-lating debt by the ordinary to the preference shareholders, the preference being in that case described as a 'non-contingent' or a 'xumulative' preference. And see DEFERRED STOCK....
Undue preference
Undue preference, the improper preferring of one customer over another by a railway or canal com-pany, prohibited by the (English) Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1854 (17 & 18 Vict. c. 31), s. 2. See RAILWAY AND CANAL COMMISSION.As to avoidance of preference of creditor within three months of bankruptcy of debtor, see FRADU-LENT PREFERENCES....
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