US Department of Homeland Security Removes Regulation Regarding Immigrant Visa Issuance

Summary

The Department of Homeland Security is eliminating a regulation that prohibited the issuance of immigrant visas to aliens who left the US without lawful nonimmigrant status, a provision set to expire in 1997.

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