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Priority date
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Priority dateIn the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration ServicesImmigrant visa petition application process, the priority date is the date the petition was filed. If the alien relative has a priority date on or before the date listed in the visa bulletin, then he or she is currently eligible for a visa.
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Immigration
The removing into one place from another.
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.
Petition
An instrument of writing or printing containing a prayer from the person presenting it, called the petitioner, to the body or person to whom it is presented, for the redress of some wrong, or the grant of some favor, which the latter has the right to give.
Application
The primary step in all divorce proceedings and court order. (the standard forms are available from the court office.
Process
1) Practice. So denominated because it proceeds or issues forth in order to bring the defendant into court, to answer the charge preferred against him, and signifies the writ or judicial means by which he is brought to answer. 2) Rights. The means or method of accomplishing a thing.
Priority
The art of impressing letters; the art of making books or papers by impressing legible characters.
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".
Alien
Any person not a citizen or national of the United States.
Relative
One connected with another by blood or affinity; a relation, a kinsman or kinswoman. In an adjective sense, having relation or connexion with some other person or thing; as relative rights, relative powers.
Bulletin
An official account of public transactions on matters of importance.
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Priority
The art of impressing letters; the art of making books or papers by impressing legible characters.
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Principal obligation
That obligation which arises from the principal object of the engagement which has been contracted between the parties. It differs from an accessory obligation
Principles
By this term is understood truths or propositions so clear that they cannot be proved nor contradicted, unless by propositions which are still clearer. They are of two kinds, one when the principle is universal, and these are kuown as axioms or maxims; as, no one can transmit rights which he has not; the accessory follows the principal, &c. The other class are simply called first principles.
Principles of preference
Believing that a just result was the paramount goal of choice of law decisions, David F. Cavers (supra) called on courts to analyze the controlling policies underlying the different competing laws and the concrete results which their application would entail in the given case. These results were then to be appraised from the standpoint of justice or broader considerations of social policy. The process, argued Cavers, would eventually result in the development of criteria for assessing the competing social values advanced by competing rules, so that the preferable rule could be identified. Ultimately, these criteria came to be known as Cavers' "principles of preference."
Printing
The art of impressing letters; the art of making books or papers by impressing legible characters.
Priority
The art of impressing letters; the art of making books or papers by impressing legible characters.
Priority date
Prisage
The name of an ancient duty taken by the English crown on wines imported into England.
Prison
A legal prison is the building designated by law, or used by the sheriff, for the confinement, or detention of those whose persons are judicially ordered to be kept in custody. But in cases of necessity, the sheriff may make his own house, or any other place, a prison.
Prison breaking
The act by which a prisoner, by force and violence, escapes from a place where he is lawfully in custody. This is an offence at common law.
Prisoner
One held in confinement against his will.
Prisoner of war
One who has been captured while fighting under the banner of some state. He is a prisoner, although never coufined in a prison.
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Immigration
The removing into one place from another.
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.
Petition
An instrument of writing or printing containing a prayer from the person presenting it, called the petitioner, to the body or person to whom it is presented, for the redress of some wrong, or the grant of some favor, which the latter has the right to give.
Application
The primary step in all divorce proceedings and court order. (the standard forms are available from the court office.
Process
1) Practice. So denominated because it proceeds or issues forth in order to bring the defendant into court, to answer the charge preferred against him, and signifies the writ or judicial means by which he is brought to answer. 2) Rights. The means or method of accomplishing a thing.
Priority
The art of impressing letters; the art of making books or papers by impressing legible characters.
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".
Alien
Any person not a citizen or national of the United States.
Relative
One connected with another by blood or affinity; a relation, a kinsman or kinswoman. In an adjective sense, having relation or connexion with some other person or thing; as relative rights, relative powers.
Bulletin
An official account of public transactions on matters of importance.
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Priority
The art of impressing letters; the art of making books or papers by impressing legible characters.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Principal obligation
That obligation which arises from the principal object of the engagement which has been contracted between the parties. It differs from an accessory obligation
Principles
By this term is understood truths or propositions so clear that they cannot be proved nor contradicted, unless by propositions which are still clearer. They are of two kinds, one when the principle is universal, and these are kuown as axioms or maxims; as, no one can transmit rights which he has not; the accessory follows the principal, &c. The other class are simply called first principles.
Principles of preference
Believing that a just result was the paramount goal of choice of law decisions, David F. Cavers (supra) called on courts to analyze the controlling policies underlying the different competing laws and the concrete results which their application would entail in the given case. These results were then to be appraised from the standpoint of justice or broader considerations of social policy. The process, argued Cavers, would eventually result in the development of criteria for assessing the competing social values advanced by competing rules, so that the preferable rule could be identified. Ultimately, these criteria came to be known as Cavers' "principles of preference."
Printing
The art of impressing letters; the art of making books or papers by impressing legible characters.
Priority
The art of impressing letters; the art of making books or papers by impressing legible characters.
Priority date
Prisage
The name of an ancient duty taken by the English crown on wines imported into England.
Prison
A legal prison is the building designated by law, or used by the sheriff, for the confinement, or detention of those whose persons are judicially ordered to be kept in custody. But in cases of necessity, the sheriff may make his own house, or any other place, a prison.
Prison breaking
The act by which a prisoner, by force and violence, escapes from a place where he is lawfully in custody. This is an offence at common law.
Prisoner
One held in confinement against his will.
Prisoner of war
One who has been captured while fighting under the banner of some state. He is a prisoner, although never coufined in a prison.
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