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_2003May16

美国|英语

来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

This report addresses policies on immigration visa issuances, options to reassign this function to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that were considered prior to passage of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (P.L. 107-296), and other policies options that may arise in the 108th Congress. 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.