This fact sheet provides basic information about how the U.S. legal immigration system is designed and functions. The law governing U.S. immigration policy is called the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). The INA allows the United States to grant up to 675,000 permanent immigrant visas each year across various visa categories.

2024年1月15日 · Source: American Immigration Council analysis of government data. Office of Immigration Statistics, 2022 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, 2022), Tables 17D and 19D. *Includes the Palestinian Territories and countries with less than 10 individuals granted asylum in FY 2022.

2025年1月22日 · The American Immigration Council’s Practice Advisory, Employment Authorization and Asylum: Strategies to Avoid Stopping the Asylum Clock, has been updated to reflect extensive changes to the manner in which the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) determine an asylum applicant’s eligibility for an Employment ...

The concept of an admission to the United States is critical to U.S. immigration law. Whether a noncitizen has been admitted can determine eligibility for immigration relief, such as adjustment of status or a waiver, the procedural rules that may apply in removal proceedings, and even the grounds of removal to which a person may be subject.

2024年4月8日 · Immigration law also authorizes parole that would result in a “significant public benefit,” but—like humanitarian parole—there is no statutory or regulatory definition of the term. Typically, this form of parole is used to allow noncitizens to appear for and participate in a civil or criminal legal proceeding in the United States.

incorporated this definition into U.S. immigration law in the Refugee Act of 1980.2 Asylum is technically a “discretionary” status, meaning that some individuals can be denied asylum even if they meet the definition of a refugee. For those individuals, a backstop form of protection known as “withholding of removal” may be

2013年3月16日 · This fact sheet provides an overview of “aggravated felonies” under federal immigration law and the immigration consequences of being convicted of an “aggravated felony.”

Following the Vietnam War and the U.S. experience resettling Southeast Asian refugees, Congress passed the Refugee Act of 1980, which incorporated the Convention’s definition into U.S. law and provides the legal basis for today’s U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP).

2022年8月9日 · Immigration judges can also determine whether to issue waivers for certain types of conduct that might be an obstacle to approving the application. Some people seek forms of relief from removal that are adjudicated by USCIS, such as a request for a “U visa” for victims of serious crimes who cooperate with law enforcement.

2020年10月6日 · This definition was incorporated into U.S. immigration law in the Refugee Act of 1980. As a signatory to the 1967 Protocol, and through U.S. immigration law, the United States has legal obligations to provide protection to those who qualify as refugees.