Visa Glossary
Visa Resources
- Accompanying
- Adjust Status
- Admission
- Adopted Child
- Advance Parole
- Advisory Opinion
- Affidavit of Support
- Affiliated
- Agent
- Alien
- AOS
- Applicant (Visa)
- Appointment Package
- Approval Notice
- Arrival-Departure Card
- Asylee
- Beneficiary
- Biometrics
- Cancelled Without Prejudice
- Case Number
- Certificate of Citizenship
- Certificate of Naturalization
- Change Status
- Charge/Chargeable
- Child
- Cohabit
- Common-law marriage
- Conditional residence visa
- Current/non-current
- Cut-off Date
- Denomination/Sect
- Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
- Department of Labor
- Derivative Status
- Diversity Visa Program
- Documentarily Qualified
- DOL
- Domicile
- Duration of Status
- DV
- Exchange Visitor
- Family First Preference
- Family Fourth Preference
- Family Second Preference
- Family Third Preference
- Federal Poverty Guidelines
- Fiance(e)
- First Preference
- Fiscal Year
- Following to Join
- Foreign Affairs Manual (9 FAM)
- Fourth Preference
- Full and Final Adoption
- Green card
- Homeless
- Household income
- I-551 (Green Card)
- Immediate Relative
- Immigrant visa
- Immigration and Nationality Act (INA)
- Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)
- In status
- INA
- Ineligible/Ineligibility
- IV
- Joint Sponsor
- Jurisdiction
- Kentucky Consular Center (KCC)
- Labor Certification
- Labor Condition Application (LCA)
- Lawful Permanent Resident (LPR)
- Lawful Permanent Resident Alien (LPRA)
- Lay Worker
- LEA
- Legitimation
- LIFE Act
- Local Educational Agency
- Lose status
- Lottery
- LPR or LPRA
- Machine Readable Passport (MRP)
- Machine Readable Visa (MRV)
- Maintain status
- Means-tested Public Benefits
- Missionary Work
- MRV
- NAFTA
- National Interest Waiver
- National Visa Center (NVC)
- Native
- Naturalization
- Nonimmigrant Visa (NIV)
- Notice of Action
- NVC
- Orphan
- Orphan Petition
- Out of status
- Overstay
- Panel Physician
- Physical Presence
- Polygamy
- Port of Entry
- Post
- Poverty Guidelines
- Preference Immigration
- Principal Applicant
- Priority Date
- Public Charge
- Qualifying date
- Rank Order Number
- Re-entry Permit
- Receipt Notice
- Refugee
- Retrogression
- Returning Residents
- Revalidation or Renewal of a Visa
- Revocation of a Visa
- SAW
- Schedule "A" Occupations
- Second Preference
- Section 213A
- Sibling
- Son/daughter
- Special Agricultural Workers
- Special Immigrant
- Sponsor
- Sponsored Immigrant
- Spouse
- State Workforce Agency
- Stepchild
- Surviving Parent
- SWA
- Tax-exempt
- Temporary Worker
- Termination of a Case
- Third Country National
- Third Preference
- Upgrade a petition
- Visa
- Visa Expiration Date
- Visa Numbers
- Visa Validity
- Visa Waiver Program (VWP)
- Voluntary Service Program
- Waiver of Ineligibility