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| T-1
Visa |
Victims
of trafficking such as sex trade or forced labor. |
| T-2
Visa |
Spouses
of T1 visa holders. |
| T-3
Visa |
Children
of T1 visa holders. |
| T-4
Visa |
Parents
of T1 visa holders. |
| TD
Visa |
Spouse
or Child of NAFTA Professional. |
Temporary
Protected Status
(TPS) |
Establishes
a legislative basis for allowing a group of persons temporary refuge in
the United States. Under a provision of the Immigration Act of 1990,
the Attorney General may designate nationals of a foreign state to be
eligible for TPS with a
finding that conditions in that country pose a
danger to personal safety due to ongoing armed conflict or an
environmental disaster. Grants of TPS are
initially made for periods of
6 to 18 months and may be extended depending on the situation. Removal
proceedings are suspended
against aliens while they are in Temporary Protected Status. |
| Temporary
Resident |
An
alien who seeks temporary entry to the United States for a specific
purpose. The alien must have a permanent residence abroad (for most
classes of admission) and qualify for the nonimmigrant classification
sought.
The nonimmigrant classifications include: foreign government officials,
visitors for business and for pleasure, aliens in transit through the
United States,
treaty traders and investors, students, international
representatives, temporary workers and trainees,
representatives of foreign information media,
exchange visitors, fiance(e) of US citizens, intra-company transferees,
NATO
officials, religious workers, and some
others. Most non-immigrants can be accompanied or joined by spouses and
unmarried minor (or dependent) children. |
| Temporary
Worker |
An
alien coming to the United States to work for a temporary period of
time. The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 and the
Immigration Act of 1990, as well as other legislation, revised existing
classes and created new classes of nonimmigrant admission. Nonimmigrant
temporary worker
classes of admission are as follows:
1) H-1A - registered nurses (valid from 10/1/1990 through 9/30/1995);
2) H-1B - workers with "specialty occupations"
admitted on the basis of professional education, skills, and/or
equivalent experience;
3) H-1C - registered nurses to work
in areas with a shortage of health professionals under the Nursing
Relief for Disadvantaged Areas Act of 1999;
4) H-2A - temporary agricultural workers
coming to the United States to perform agricultural services or labor
of a temporary or seasonal nature when authorized workers are
unavailable in the United States;
5) H-2B - temporary non-agricultural workers
coming to the United States to perform temporary services or labor if
unemployed persons capable of performing the service or labor cannot be
found in the United States;
6) H-3 - aliens coming temporarily to
the United States as trainees, other than to receive graduate medical
education or training;
7) O-1, O-2,
O-3
- temporary workers with extraordinary ability or achievement in the
sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics; those entering
solely for the purpose of accompanying and assisting such workers; and
their spouses and children;
8) P-1, P-2,
P-3, P-4
- athletes and entertainers at an internationally recognized level of
performance; artists and entertainers under a reciprocal exchange
program; artists and entertainers under a program that is "culturally
unique"; and their spouses and children;
9) Q-1, Q-2,
Q-3
- participants in international cultural exchange programs;
participants in the Irish Peace Process Cultural and Training Program;
and spouses and children of Irish Peace Process participants;
10) R-1, R-2
- temporary workers to perform work in religious occupations and their
spouses and children. |
| TN
Visa |
NAFTA
Professional. |
| Transit
Alien |
An
alien in immediate and continuous transit through the United States,
with or without a visa, including,
1)
aliens who qualify as persons entitled to pass in transit to and from
the United Nations Headquarters District and foreign countries and
2) foreign government officials and their spouses and unmarried minor
(or dependent) children in transit. |
Transit
Without Visa
(TWOV) |
A
transit
alien traveling without a nonimmigrant visa under section 233 of the
INA. An alien admitted under agreements with a transportation line,
which guarantees his immediate and continuous passage to a foreign
destination. |
| Transition
Quarter |
The
three-month period July 1 through September 30, 1976 between fiscal
year 1976 and fiscal year 1977. At that time, the fiscal year
definition shifted from July 1-June 30 to October 1-September 30. |
| Treaty
Trader or Investor |
As
a
nonimmigrant class of admission, an alien coming to the United States,
under the provisions of a treaty of commerce and navigation between the
United States and the foreign state of such alien, to carry on
substantial trade or to direct the operations of an enterprise in which
he/she has invested a substantial amount of capital, and the alien's
spouse and unmarried minor children. |
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