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qualifying date The date which the Visa Office of the Department of State uses the qualifying date to determine when to send the Instruction Package to an immigrant visa applicant. The Instruction Package tells the applicant what documents need to be prepared for the immigrant visa application. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...
Qualifying date
Qualifying date, means the date specified as such by the Commission by notification for the purposes of this Act. [The West Bengal Panchayat Election Act, 2003, s. 2(22)]...
registry date
registry date Aliens who have continuously resided in the United States since January 1, 1972, are of good moral character, and are not inadmissible, are eligible to adjust to legal permanent resident status under the registry provision. Before the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 amended the date, aliens had to have been in the country continuously since June 30, 1948, to qualify. Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ...
Post-dated cheque
Post-dated cheque, are not invalid, but the banker should not pay such a cheque if presented before the date it bears. If therefore, a cheque dated on a Sunday is presented on the previous business day, it should be returned with the answer post-dated. A post-dated cheque, however, if presented at or after its ostensible date, should be paid though the banker knows it to be post-dated, and even if it has been presented before the date and refused payment, Halsbury's Laws of England, 4th Edn., Vol. 3(1), p. 143.Means a cheque must not be post-dated, that is, dated after the day on which it is presented for payment to the drawee branch. Post-dated cheques present for more difficulties to the banker than antedated cheques. There are practical difficulties rather than legal ones ..... But a cheque is generally post-dated because the drawer does not expect to have the funds to meet it until that date arrives. It is a mandate to the banker to the effect that it should not be paid before that...
cut-off date
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. ...
qualifying event
qualifying event : an event or condition (as a terminal illness) that permits an acceleration or continuation of benefits or coverage ;esp : an event involving an employee covered by a group health insurance plan that would result in a termination of coverage for the employee or a qualified beneficiary if not for federal provisions for the continuation of such coverage (as for six months) NOTE: Qualifying events for continuation of group health insurance coverage include the death, divorce, or legal separation of the employee, termination from employment for a reason other than gross misconduct, reduction in working hours, and the change in status of a child who ceases to be classified as a dependent under the terms of the plan. An employee is entitled to notice of the right to continuation after a qualifying event occurs. ...
visa expiration date
visa expiration date The visa expiration date is shown on the visa. This means the visa is valid, or can be used from the date it is issued until the date it expires, for travel for the same purpose, when the visa is issued for multiple entries. This time period from the visa issuance date to visa expiration date as shown on the visa, is called visa validity. If you travel frequently as a tourist for example, with a multiple entry visa, you do not have to apply for a new visa each time you want to travel to the U.S. As an example of travel for the same purpose, if you have a visitor visa, it cannot be used to enter at a later time to study in the U.S. The visa validity is the length of time you are permitted to travel to a port-of-entry in the United States to request permission of the U.S. immigration inspector to permit you to enter the U.S. The visa does not guarantee entry to the U.S. The Expiration Date for the visa should not be confused with the authorized length of your sta...
Date
Date [fr. datum, Lat.], that part of a deed, writing, or letter which expresses the day of the month and year in which it was made. Dates began to be inserted in deeds in the reigns of Edward II. and Edward III. A deed, however, is good, although it mentions no date, or has a false or impossible date, provided the real date of its delivery can be proved.By (English) R.S.C., Order XIX., r. 4, dates in pleadings are to be expressed in figures, not words, and by Ord. II., r. 8, a writ bears date on the day of issue....
Date of vesting
Date of vesting, the date of vesting according to s. 2(h) of the Act is the date of vesting is to be the date of publication in the Official Gazette. This definition is therefore, incorporated to make it sure that the date of vesting in every case could be determined without any uncertainty or ambiguity. The effect of this definition is that whatever be the dates on which the notification is published in the two issues of two newspapers, the vesting is to take effect from the date of publication in the Official Gazette, Giriwar Prasad Narain Singh v. Dukhn Lal Das, AIR 1968 SC 90 (94): (1967) 3 SCR 759. [Bihar Land Reforms Act, 1950 (30 of 1950), ss. 2(h) and 4]...
priority date
priority date The priority date decides a person's turn to apply for an immigrant visa. In family immigration the priority date is the date when the petition was filed at a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) office or submitted to an Embassy or Consulate abroad. In employment immigration the priority date may be the date the labor certification application was received by the Department of Labor (DOL). Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...
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