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Adjustment to immigrant status
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Adjustment to immigrant statusProcedure allowing certain aliens already in the United States to apply for immigrant status. Aliens admitted to the United States in a nonimmigrant, refugee, or parolee category may have their status changed to that of lawful permanent resident if they are eligible to receive an immigrant visa and one is immediately available. In such cases, the alien is counted as an immigrant as of the date of adjustment, even though the alien may have been in the United States for an extended period of time.
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States
By this name are understood in some countries, the assembly of the different orders of the people to regulate the affairs of the commonwealth, as, the states general.
Status
The condition of persons. It also means estate, because it signifies the condition or circumstances in which the owner stands with regard to his property.
Nonimmigrant
An alien who seeks temporary entry to the United States for a specific purpose. The alien must have a permanent residence abroad (for most classes of admission) and qualify for the nonimmigrant classification sought.
Refugee
Any person who is outside his or her country of nationality who is unable or unwilling to return to that country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution. Persecution or the fear thereof must be based on the alien’s race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion. People with no nationality must generally be outside their country of last habitual residence to qualify as a refugee.
Parolee
A parolee is an alien, appearing to be inadmissible to the inspecting officer, allowed into the United States for urgent humanitarian reasons or when that alien’s entry is determined to be for significant public benefit. Parole does not constitute a formal admission to the United States and confers temporary status only, requiring parolees to leave when the conditions supporting their parole cease to exist.
Lawful
That which is not forbidden by law. Id omne licitum est, quod non est legibus prohibitum, quamobrem, quod, lege permittente, fit, poenam non meretur. To be valid a contract must be lawful.
Resident
International law. A minister, according to diplomatic language, of a third order, less in dignity than an ambassador, or an envoy. This term formerly related only to the continuance of the minister's stay, but now it is confined to ministers of this class. 2) Persons. A person coming into a place with intention to establish his domicil or permanent residence, and who in consequence actually remains there. Time is not so essential as the intent, executed by making or beginning an actual establishment, though it be abandoned in a longer, or shorter period.
Receive
To receive. Voluntarily to take from another what is offered.
Visa
A U.S. visa allows the bearer to apply for entry to the U.S. in a certain classification. A visa does not grant the bearer the right to enter the United States. The Department of State (DOS) is responsible for visa adjudication at U.S. Embassies and Consulates outside of the U.S. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (BCBP) immigration inspectors determine admission into, length of stay and conditions of stay in, the U.S. at a port of entry.
Cases
General term for an action, cause, suit, or controversy, at law or in equity; questions contested before a court of justice.
Alien
Any person not a citizen or national of the United States.
Date
Latin datum, a thing given. The primary signification is time "given" or specified, - in some way ascertained and fixed. In the ancient form the clause ran: datum apud, etc., specifying the place and time; thence called the datum clause, afterward shortened to "date".
Time
Contracts, evidence, practice. The measure of duration., It is divided into years, months. days, hours, minutes, and seconds. It is also divided into day and night. 2) Pleading. The avertment of time is generally necessary in pleading; the rules are different, in different actions.
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Adjudication
Practice. The giving or pronouncing a judgment in a cause;a judgment.
Adjuncts
English law. Additional judges appointed to determine causes in the High Court of Delegates, when the former judges cannot decide in consequence of disagreement, or because one of the law judges of the court was not one of the majority.
Adjunctum accessorium, civil law
Something which is an accessory and appurtenant to another thing.
Adjuration
The act by which one person solemnly charges another to tell or swear to the truth.
Adjuster
The person assigned by an insurance company to determine its obligations under a policy when a claim is made or filed.
Adjustment center (prison)
In the US penitentiary jargon, a segregation center.
Adjutant
A military officer, attached to every battalion of a regiment. It is his duty to superintend, under his superiors, all matters relating to the ordinary routine of discipline in the regiment.
Adjutant-general
A staff officer; one of those next in rank to the Commander-in-chief.
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Adjournment-day in error
In the English courts, is a day appointed some days before the end of the term, at which matters left undone on the affirmance day are finished.
Adjudication
Practice. The giving or pronouncing a judgment in a cause;a judgment.
Adjuncts
English law. Additional judges appointed to determine causes in the High Court of Delegates, when the former judges cannot decide in consequence of disagreement, or because one of the law judges of the court was not one of the majority.
Adjunctum accessorium, civil law
Something which is an accessory and appurtenant to another thing.
Adjuration
The act by which one person solemnly charges another to tell or swear to the truth.
Adjustment to immigrant status
Adjutant
A military officer, attached to every battalion of a regiment. It is his duty to superintend, under his superiors, all matters relating to the ordinary routine of discipline in the regiment.
Adjutant-general
A staff officer; one of those next in rank to the Commander-in-chief.
Admeasurement of dower
Remedies. The following account of it is given by Chief Baron Gilbert. "The writ of admeasurement of dower lieth where the heir when he is within age, and endoweth the wife of more than she ought to have dower of; or if the guardian in chivalry, [for the guardian in socage cannot assign dower,] endoweth the wife of more than one-third part of the land of which she ought to have dower, then the heir, at full age, may sue out this writ against the wife, and thereby shall be admeasured, and the surplusage she hath in dower shall be restored to the heir; but in such case there shall not be assigned anew any lands to hold to dower, but to take from her so much of the lands as surpasseth the third part whereof she ought to be endowed; and he need not set forth of whose assignments she holds."
Admeasurement of pasture
English law. The name of a writ which lies where any tenants have common appendant in another ground and one overcharges the common with beasts. The other commoners, to obtain their just rights, may sue out this writ against him.
Admiitendo in socium
A writ associating certain persons tojustices of assize.
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States
By this name are understood in some countries, the assembly of the different orders of the people to regulate the affairs of the commonwealth, as, the states general.
Status
The condition of persons. It also means estate, because it signifies the condition or circumstances in which the owner stands with regard to his property.
Nonimmigrant
An alien who seeks temporary entry to the United States for a specific purpose. The alien must have a permanent residence abroad (for most classes of admission) and qualify for the nonimmigrant classification sought.
Refugee
Any person who is outside his or her country of nationality who is unable or unwilling to return to that country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution. Persecution or the fear thereof must be based on the alien’s race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion. People with no nationality must generally be outside their country of last habitual residence to qualify as a refugee.
Parolee
A parolee is an alien, appearing to be inadmissible to the inspecting officer, allowed into the United States for urgent humanitarian reasons or when that alien’s entry is determined to be for significant public benefit. Parole does not constitute a formal admission to the United States and confers temporary status only, requiring parolees to leave when the conditions supporting their parole cease to exist.
Lawful
That which is not forbidden by law. Id omne licitum est, quod non est legibus prohibitum, quamobrem, quod, lege permittente, fit, poenam non meretur. To be valid a contract must be lawful.
Resident
International law. A minister, according to diplomatic language, of a third order, less in dignity than an ambassador, or an envoy. This term formerly related only to the continuance of the minister's stay, but now it is confined to ministers of this class. 2) Persons. A person coming into a place with intention to establish his domicil or permanent residence, and who in consequence actually remains there. Time is not so essential as the intent, executed by making or beginning an actual establishment, though it be abandoned in a longer, or shorter period.
Receive
To receive. Voluntarily to take from another what is offered.
Visa
A U.S. visa allows the bearer to apply for entry to the U.S. in a certain classification. A visa does not grant the bearer the right to enter the United States. The Department of State (DOS) is responsible for visa adjudication at U.S. Embassies and Consulates outside of the U.S. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (BCBP) immigration inspectors determine admission into, length of stay and conditions of stay in, the U.S. at a port of entry.
Cases
General term for an action, cause, suit, or controversy, at law or in equity; questions contested before a court of justice.
Alien
Any person not a citizen or national of the United States.
Date
Latin datum, a thing given. The primary signification is time "given" or specified, - in some way ascertained and fixed. In the ancient form the clause ran: datum apud, etc., specifying the place and time; thence called the datum clause, afterward shortened to "date".
Time
Contracts, evidence, practice. The measure of duration., It is divided into years, months. days, hours, minutes, and seconds. It is also divided into day and night. 2) Pleading. The avertment of time is generally necessary in pleading; the rules are different, in different actions.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Adjudication
Practice. The giving or pronouncing a judgment in a cause;a judgment.
Adjuncts
English law. Additional judges appointed to determine causes in the High Court of Delegates, when the former judges cannot decide in consequence of disagreement, or because one of the law judges of the court was not one of the majority.
Adjunctum accessorium, civil law
Something which is an accessory and appurtenant to another thing.
Adjuration
The act by which one person solemnly charges another to tell or swear to the truth.
Adjuster
The person assigned by an insurance company to determine its obligations under a policy when a claim is made or filed.
Adjustment center (prison)
In the US penitentiary jargon, a segregation center.
Adjutant
A military officer, attached to every battalion of a regiment. It is his duty to superintend, under his superiors, all matters relating to the ordinary routine of discipline in the regiment.
Adjutant-general
A staff officer; one of those next in rank to the Commander-in-chief.
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Adjournment-day in error
In the English courts, is a day appointed some days before the end of the term, at which matters left undone on the affirmance day are finished.
Adjudication
Practice. The giving or pronouncing a judgment in a cause;a judgment.
Adjuncts
English law. Additional judges appointed to determine causes in the High Court of Delegates, when the former judges cannot decide in consequence of disagreement, or because one of the law judges of the court was not one of the majority.
Adjunctum accessorium, civil law
Something which is an accessory and appurtenant to another thing.
Adjuration
The act by which one person solemnly charges another to tell or swear to the truth.
Adjustment to immigrant status
Adjutant
A military officer, attached to every battalion of a regiment. It is his duty to superintend, under his superiors, all matters relating to the ordinary routine of discipline in the regiment.
Adjutant-general
A staff officer; one of those next in rank to the Commander-in-chief.
Admeasurement of dower
Remedies. The following account of it is given by Chief Baron Gilbert. "The writ of admeasurement of dower lieth where the heir when he is within age, and endoweth the wife of more than she ought to have dower of; or if the guardian in chivalry, [for the guardian in socage cannot assign dower,] endoweth the wife of more than one-third part of the land of which she ought to have dower, then the heir, at full age, may sue out this writ against the wife, and thereby shall be admeasured, and the surplusage she hath in dower shall be restored to the heir; but in such case there shall not be assigned anew any lands to hold to dower, but to take from her so much of the lands as surpasseth the third part whereof she ought to be endowed; and he need not set forth of whose assignments she holds."
Admeasurement of pasture
English law. The name of a writ which lies where any tenants have common appendant in another ground and one overcharges the common with beasts. The other commoners, to obtain their just rights, may sue out this writ against him.
Admiitendo in socium
A writ associating certain persons tojustices of assize.
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