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Controlling Alien Admission - Applicability of Restrictions - Territorial

United States immigration laws are designed to control the entry of aliens into the U.S. from abroad. In determining the effect of these laws, it is important to understand their geographical limitations with relation to travel between the continental U.S., U.S. territories, and U.S. possessions. Not all travel is subject to immigration laws, and some travel is only partially subject to those laws.

Immigrants - Farmworkers - Special Agricultural Workers - Administrative and Judicial Review

The procedures used to consider and deny applications for the special agricultural worker (SAW) program were well-defined. Additionally, once a final determination was made on an application, an administrative review mechanism was available to an aggrieved applicant. Judicial review was only available in vary narrow circumstances.

Grounds for Removal - Public Charge

Grounds for removal - Generally

Methods of Acquiring Citizenship - Naturalization - Objective Requirements Other Than Residence

In addition to making the specified showing of residence, an alien who wishes to become a naturalized United States citizen must meet several other objective requirements, including having the requisite mental capacity and age and possessing the requisite English literacy and knowledge of U.S. history and government.

Methods Of Acquiring Citizenship -Birth Outside The United States

In the mid-1800s, the United States Congress first passed a law stating that children born abroad to Americans were U.S. citizens. Under current law, there are six situations in which a child born abroad acquires U.S. citizenship or nationality. In all six situations, at least one parent must be a U.S. citizen or national. Additionally, there are sometimes additional requirements that must be met, such as U.S. residence of the qualifying parent.