Immigration Basics
This document allows a lawful permanent resident to live and work permanently in the United States.
What is a green card?
What is family detention?
This occurs when parents and children are held together in immigration custody?
This protection may be available to people who experience or fear persecution in their home country.
What is asylum?
This federal agency is responsible for most immigrant detention facilities in the United States.
What is ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement)? (or DHS)
This federal agency processes immigration status applications.
What is USCIS (U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services)?
This type of payment may allow a detained person to be released from ICE custody while they attend court proceedings.
What is an immigration bond?
A child under the age of 18 who arrives on United States soil without a parent or legal guardian
What is an unaccompanied minor?
This term refers to places where immigration enforcement has been historically limited because people go their for essential services (like hospitals, schools, and churches).
What is a sensitive location?
The process of becoming a U.S. citizen
What is naturalization?
Unlike in criminal court, people in immigration court do not receive this from government:
What is a govt-appointed attorney?
also correct: court appointed attorney or lawyer
This immigration status temporarily protects citizens from certain countries experiencing armed conflict or disasters.
What is temporary protected status (TPS)?
This term refers to the process of the US government formally removing a noncitizen from the United States.
What is deportation?
After becoming a US Citizen, a person gains this right which green card holders do not have
What is the right to vote?
Because of this, individuals in immigration detention have the right to a fair hearing before an immigration judge.
What is due process?
Victims or witnesses of certain crimes who assist law enforcement may qualify for this form of immigration relief (Visa)
What is a U-Visa?
This is a type of warrant signed by a judge that allows ICE legal access to detain people in private spaces (like homes)
What is a judicial warrant?
U.S. Citizens can petition for spouses, parents and ________ to become legal permenant residents.
Who are unmarried children under age 21?
This legal principle allows a person in detention to ask a federal court to review whether their detention is lawful or not.
What is habeas corpus?
This law allows certain abused spouses, children, and parents of US Citizens or Green Card holders to self petition for immigration status (without their abuser)
What is VAWA (Violence against women act)?
During an encounter with immigration officers, a person has the right to do this rather than to answer questions about their immigration status
What is the right to remain silent?