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visa validity

if you have filed an application in a timely manner for extension of stay or a change of status, and that application is pending and not frivolous, and if you did not engage in unauthorized employment, then

principal applicant

be the principal applicant, and her family members will get visas from her position. They will get derivative status. Or a company may file a petition for a worker. The worker is the principal applicant. Family members

Goods

in the marketplace. The fact that some programs may be tailored for specific purposes need not alter their status as 'goods' because the Code definition includes 'specially manufactured goods', Advent Systems Ltd. v. Unisys Corpn., 925 F.

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Distributive justice

of Cardozo, 'what we are seeking is not merely the justice that one receives when his rights and status are determined by the law as it is; what we are seeking is a justice to which law

Contract

mutual agree-ment of the parties; the other essentials are legality, capacity (depending on age, mental ability, sex and status) a mutual identity of consent (consensus ad idem), and form. When an agreement is stated either verbally or

Curtesy of England

of taking freehold estates maybe tenants by the curtesy; but aliens cannot, except under the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act, 1914, nor felons (Co. Litt. 30 b, n. 7), except under the Forfeitue Act, 1870

De medietate lingu'

in the same manner as if he were a natural born British subject; see the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act, 1914, s. 18, in substitution for the (English) Naturalization Act, 1870. See ALIEN.

Declarator

Declarator, an action whereby it is sought to have some right of property, or of status, or other right judicially ascertained and declared, Bell's Scots Law Dict.

Deemed tenant

Deemed tenant, the person claiming the status of a deemed tenant must be cultivating land lawfully, Dahya Lala v. Rasul Mahomed, AIR 1964 SC 1320

Denizen

either House of Parliament, or have any office of trust civil or military. By the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act, 1914, s. 52, nothing in the Act contained affects the grant of letters of denization

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