| Alien Rights - Legal Representation and Access to Courts |
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| An alien's legal rights depend on whether or not the alien is within or outside of the United States' jurisdiction. In the United States, there is a federal law that provides that each person within the jurisdiction of the United States has equal access to the country's legal system. As long as an alien is on United States soil, he or she is a person within the United States' jurisdiction.
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| Nonimmigrants - Commercial Truck Drivers |
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| Alien travelers wishing to enter the United States on a temporary basis must obtain visas, which entitle them to present themselves at an U.S. port-of-entry and to request admission to the country. If they are transporting cargo in the stream of international commerce, commercial truck drivers may be eligible for a travel visa for a business traveler, known as a B-1 visa.
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| Controlling Alien Admission-Immigrants - Administrative-Consul Consideration of Visa Applications and Refusals of Visas |
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| United States immigration law grants consular officers exclusive authority to consider immigrant visa applications. No formal hearing is required, and most of the procedures are determined by individual U.S. consulates and embassies. For instance, consulate procedure dictates both how the immigrant interview proceeds and whether an attorney or other representative will be allowed to attend the interview. More... |
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| Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 |
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| The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA) targeted the prevention of illegal immigration, contained provisions regarding sanctions for employers who knowingly hired undocumented workers, and provided for increased border control, among other things. It also focused on the prevention of discrimination in the enforcement of the undocumented worker provisions. In addition, IRCA contained an amnesty provision, under which illegal aliens who had lived continuously in the United States since 1982 could have applied to the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) for legal resident status by a certain application cutoff date. More... |
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| Controlling Alien Admission - Introduction - Data Management Improvement Act Task Force - Recommendations to Congress |
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| In 2000, the United States Congress passed the Immigration and Naturalization Service Data Management Improvement Act. This Act created a task force to consider how to improve traffic at U.S. ports of entry while also enhancing national security. Two years later, this function was transferred to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). More... |
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