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Panel Physician
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抯 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.
Passport
- Passport is a travel document issued by a person’s country of citizenship. It can be used for identification purposes as well as for visa applications or entry to other countries. For more information about nonimmigrant visas, please click http://www.hooyou.com/nonimmigration/index.html. For more information about immigrant visas, please click http://www.hooyou.com/ip/index.html.
PERM
- PERM stands for Program Electronic Review Management. Rumors as well as government announcements about PERM have been circulating since 1999. Till today, however, the U.S. government has not delivered a final version of PERM to the public or made any definite date when PERM will replace the currently LC system. Despite all the mysteries hanging over PERM, it is likely that the new system will make the reviewing process, on one hand, more expedited, one the other hand, more difficult for many petitioners. For more information about PERM and LC, please click http://www.hooyou.com/lc/news.htm.
Petition
Petitioner
- Petitioner is the person or organization filing a formal request or petition in behalf of an alien beneficiary. For more information about petitioner and beneficiary in immigration petitions, please click http://www.hooyou.com/ip/index.html. For more information about petitioner and beneficiary in H-1B petition, please click http://www.hooyou.com/h-1b/index.html.
Port of Entry
- Any location in the United States or its territories that is designated as a point of entry for aliens and U.S. citizens. All district and files control offices are also considered ports, since they become locations of entry for aliens adjusting to immigrant status.
Portability Rule
- Portability Rule applies to H-1B nonimmigrant petitions as well as employment-based immigrant petitions.First, H-1B portability allows certain current H1B workers to begin work for the new employer upon filing the petition, rather than waiting for approval; Second, it also allows current H-1B workers to extend the H1B status beyond 6 years if the I-140 or I-485 is pending and one started the employment-based immigration petitions a year prior; Third, it allows the USCIS to approve the I-485 for a new employer if job is similar and I-485 has been pending for at least 180 days.For details of portability rule, please click http://www.hooyou.com/advanceparole/I-485%20filing%20memo.htm.
Pre-inspection
- Pre-inspectionis a complete immigration inspection of airport passengers before departure from a foreign country. No further immigration inspection is required upon arrival in the United States other than submission of Form I-94 for nonimmigrant aliens.
Preference System (Immigration Act of 1990)
- The nine categories since fiscal year 1992 among which the family-sponsored and employment-based immigrant preference visas are distributed. The family-sponsored preferences are: 1) unmarried sons and daughters of U.S. citizens; 2) spouses, children, and unmarried sons and daughters of permanent resident aliens; 3) married sons and daughters of U.S. citizens; 4) brothers and sisters of U.S. citizens. The employment-based preferences are: 1) priority workers (persons of extraordinary ability, outstanding professors and researchers, and certain multinational executives and managers); 2) professionals with advanced degrees or aliens with exceptional ability; 3) skilled workers, professionals (without advanced degrees), and needed unskilled workers; 4) special immigrants; and 5) employment creation immigrants (investors).
Prevailing Wage
- Prevailing wages are the compensations that employers pay to the majority of workers of a certain occupation in a certain area. The Department of Labor and Industries establish prevailing wage for each trade and occupation employed in the performance of public work. Prevailing wages vary from county to county, and are reflective of local wage conditions. Therefore, there is no national prevailing wage. For details of prevailing wages for H-1 alien workers, please click http://www.hooyou.com/h-1b/index.html. For details of prevailing wages for Labor Certification or RIR, please click http://www.hooyou.com/lc/index.html.
Principal Alien
- The alien who applies for immigrant status and from whom another alien may derive lawful status under immigration law or regulations (usually spouses and minor unmarried children).
Priority Date for Family Based Immigrations
- In the USCIS Immigrant visa petition process, the priority date is the date the petition was filed. In family-based immigration petitions, 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. For more information about priority date and family-based immigration, please click http://www.hooyou.com/familybased/index.html.
Priority Date for Labor Certification
- In Labor Certification processing, priority date is the date that a Labor Certification is filed with the State Workforce Commission or the date that an immigration petition is filed, whichever comes first. The purpose of a Priority Date is to identify when the alien may apply for an Adjustment of Status or may apply for an immigrant visa if outside the U.S. Each month, the State Department's Visa office publishes a table of cutoff dates. The alien may apply for an Adjustment of Status (I-485) provided his/her immigration petition is approved and the alien's priority date is within the established cutoff date for his/her category. For more information about priority date and LC, please click http://www.hooyou.com/lc/priority_date.html.
Proxy marriage
- A proxy marriage is a marriage where the parties were not physically present in the presence of each other. A proxy marriage is generally not accepted under immigration laws unless it is subsequently consummated. However, a party of a unconsummated proxy marriage may enjoy immigration benefit as a fiancé if the opposite party is a U.S. citizen, such as applying for a K-1 visa. For more information about K-1 visa, please click http://www.hooyou.com/k-1/index.html.
Receipt Number
- A number assigned to immigration applications or petitions by the USCIS. Applicants or petitioners may check their case status on line or by phone using the receipt number. For more information, please click http://www.hooyou.com/pstime/.
Re-entry Permit
- U.S. lawful permanent residents or conditional permanent residents who wish to remain outside the United States for more than one year, but less than two years, may apply for a re-entry permit. For more information about re-entry permit, click http://www.hooyou.com/reentrypermit/index.html.
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. Refugees are subject to ceilings by geographic area set annually by the President in consultation with Congress and are eligible to adjust to lawful permanent resident status after one year of continuous presence in the United States.
Refugee Travel Document
- A travel document issued by U.S. government that can be used by a refugee or asylee to travel abroad. For more information about refugee or aslyee, please click http://www.hooyou.com/asylum/index.html
Regional Offices
Registry Date
- Aliens who have continuously resided in the United States since January 1, 1972, are of good moral character, and are not inadmissible, are eligible to adjust to legal permanent resident status under the registry provision. Before the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 amended the date, aliens had to have been in the country continuously since June 30, 1948, to qualify.
Removal
- The expulsion of an alien from the United States. This expulsion may be based on grounds of inadmissibility or deportability. Asylum is a basic relief for removal.
Returning Resident
- Any Lawful Permanent Resident who has been outside the United States and is returning to the U.S. Also defined as a "special immigrant." If outside of the U.S. for more than 180 days, must apply for readmission to the U.S. If outside of the U.S. for more than one year and is returning to his or her permanent residence in the United States, usually must have a re-entry documentation from USCIS or an immigrant visa from the Department of State.
RFE
- RFE stands for "Request for Evidence”. Sometimes the USCIS finds that a petition initially filed has met the basic requirements of the immigration laws, but is not convinced based on the initially submitted application that the alien has fully met the burden to prove. In such cases they will typically send a "Request for Additional Evidence" seeking certain forms of evidence that the USCIS finds lacking. If the USCIS is convinced upon additionally filed evidence, the case will be approved. Failure to file additional evidence within a certain period of time or failure to convince the USCIS upon filing additional evidence will lead to a denial of the case. For more information about RFE, please click http://www.hooyou.com/niw/faq.html.
RIR
- RIR stands for “Reduction in Recruitment”. It is the fast track version of the Labor Certification process. A U.S. employer may petition for an RIR if the employer has, during a period of at least six (6) months, attempted to fill the position with reasonable efforts and has failed to find qualified U.S. workers. In essence, the employer is stating that the Labor Certification process is not necessary since the employer has already tested the labor market without success. If the State Workforce Commission finds that the evidence provided supports that the job recruitment campaign was continuous and a good faith effort was made to fill the position, the State supervised job recruitment campaign is waived and the case is recommended to the Department of Labor (DOL) for expedited review. For details of RIR, please click http://www.hooyou.com/rir/index.html.
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