| L-1
Visa |
Intracompany
Transferee (Executive, Managerial, and Specialized Knowledge Personnel
Continuing Employment with International Firm or Corporation). |
| L-2
Visa |
Spouse
or Child of Intracompany Transferee. |
| Labor
Certification |
Requirement
for US employers seeking to employ certain persons whose immigration to
the United States is based on job skills or nonimmigrant temporary
workers coming to perform services for which qualified authorized
workers are unavailable in the United States.
Labor certification
is issued by the Secretary of Labor and contains attestations by US
employers as to the numbers of US workers available to undertake the
employment sought by an applicant, and the effect of the alien's
employment on the wages and working conditions of US workers similarly
employed. Determination of labor availability in the United States is
made at the time of a visa application and at the location where the
applicant wishes to work. |
| Legalization
Dependents |
A
maximum of 55,000 visas were issued to spouses and children of aliens
legalized under the provisions of the Immigration Reform and Control
Act of 1986 in each of fiscal years 1992-94. |
| Legalized
Aliens |
Certain
illegal aliens who were eligible to apply for temporary resident status
under the legalization provision of the Immigration Reform and Control
Act of 1986. To be eligible, aliens must have continuously resided in
the United States in an unlawful status since January 1, 1982, not be
excludable, and have entered the United States either 1) illegally
before January 1, 1982, or 2) as temporary visitors before January 1,
1982, with their authorized stay expiring before that date or with the
Government's knowledge of their unlawful status before that date.
Legalization
consists of two stages--temporary and then permanent residency. In
order to adjust to permanent status aliens must have had continuous
residence in the United States, be admissible as an immigrant, and
demonstrate at least a minimal understanding and knowledge of the
English language and US history and government. |
| Legitimated |
Most
countries have legal procedures for natural fathers of children born
out of wedlock to acknowledge their children. A legitimated child from
any country has two legal parents and cannot qualify as an orphan
unless:
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| 1. |
only one of the parents is living, or |
| 2. |
both
of the parents have abandoned the child |
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