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Section 153 of the Federal Immigration Act of 1990 provides Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) to undocumented children who (1) are under 21, (2) are unmarried, (3) have been abandoned, neglected or abused by at least one birth parent, (4) have been declared dependent on the juvenile court (often through a guardianship proceeding) or deemed eligible for long-term foster care, and (5) for ...
Morales-Santana (137 S. Ct. 1678, 2017), the Supreme Court struck down the unequal gender-based residence requirement for unmarried fathers to pass on nationality to their children born abroad, ruling that the equal but longer term of five years residency should apply to both fathers and mothers until Congress amended the law.
Shapiro v. Thompson, 394 U.S. 618 (1969), was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States that invalidated state durational residency requirements for public assistance and helped establish a fundamental "right to travel" in U.S. law. Shapiro was a part of a set of three welfare cases all heard during the 1968–69 term by the Supreme Court, alongside Harrell v.
Permanent residency is a person's legal resident status in a country or territory of which such person is not a citizen but where they have the right to reside on a permanent basis. This is usually for a permanent period; a person with such legal status is known as a permanent resident.
Crouse graduated from Kansas State University in 1997 with a Bachelor of Science. He then attended the University of Kansas School of Law, where he was an articles editor of the Kansas Law Review. He graduated in 2000 with a Juris Doctor and was inducted into the Order of the Coif. [2]
A 1970s era federal law – Public Law 92-544 – governs how the FBI shares criminal history information with and between states. The law is aimed at allowing states to screen potential employees ...
The right of abode is an individual's freedom from immigration control in a particular country.A person who has the right of abode in a country does not need permission from the government to enter the country and can live and work there without restriction, and is immune from removal and deportation (unless the right of abode has been revoked).
The Kansas Legislature considered creating a $40 million grant for homeless shelters across the state, but the bills stalled in committee and never received a vote.