Visa Issuances: Policy, Issues, and Legislation

Wasem, Ruth Ellen

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

关键词: Immigration;    Immigration policy -- Law and legislation;    Visas;   

RP-ID  :  RL31512
RP-ID  :  RL31512_2003Jan24

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

This report addresses the current policy on immigration visa issuances and options for reassigning this function to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). It opens with an overview of visa issuances, with sections on procedures for aliens coming to live in the United States permanently and on procedures for aliens admitted for temporary stays. An analysis of the grounds for excluding aliens follows. The report summarizes the debate on transferring visa issuance policy functions to homeland security and concludes with a discussion of the legislative proposals to reassign the visa issuance activities and to revise visa issuance policies.