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legal alien — any foreign national who is permitted under the law to be in the host country. This is a very broad category which includes travel visa holders or foreign tourists, registered refugees , temporary residents , permanent residents , and those who have relinquished their citizenship and/or nationality. [ 7 ]
Thus, legal status is "a feature of individuals and their relationships to the law." [5] Tiffany Graham added to Balkin's definition: "legal status refers to a set of characteristics that define an individual's membership in an official class, as a consequence of which rights, duties, capacities and/or incapacities are acquired." [6]
a citizen or resident of the United States (including a lawful permanent resident residing abroad who has not formally notified United States Citizenship and Immigration Services in order to abandon that status); [5] a domestic partnership; a domestic corporation; any estate (other than a foreign estate, within the meaning of paragraph (31)); and
Signed into law by President Theodore Roosevelt on March 3, 1903 The Immigration Act of 1903 , also called the Anarchist Exclusion Act , was a law of the United States regulating immigration . It codified previous immigration law, and added four inadmissible classes: anarchists , people with epilepsy , beggars , and importers of prostitutes .
Overridden by the Senate and became law on February 5, 1917 The Immigration Act of 1917 (also known as the Literacy Act or the Burnett Act [ 1 ] and less often as the Asiatic Barred Zone Act ) was a United States Act that aimed to restrict immigration by imposing literacy tests on immigrants, creating new categories of inadmissible persons, and ...
-The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to let immigrants who have been allowed to stay in the United States on humanitarian grounds apply to become permanent residents if they entered the ...
The subject heading Aliens, Illegal was established by the Library of Congress in 1980 and revised to Illegal aliens in 1993. [1]The subject heading incorporates references from non-preferred forms of the term including Aliens--Legal status, laws, etc.; Aliens, Illegal; Illegal aliens--Legal status, laws, etc.; Illegal immigrants; Illegal immigration; and Undocumented aliens.
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services released details on Friday about the new parole program for Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans that was announced Thursday by President Joe Biden.