Immigration Court & Due Process
Immigrants facing removal are entitled to this basic procedural right.
What is due process?
This status is granted to people unable to safely return to their home country due to conflict or disaster.
What is Temporary Protected Status (TPS)?
This term refers to crimes that make an immigrant deportable.
What are deportable offenses or removability grounds?
This is the process by which green card holders become U.S. citizens.
What is naturalization?
This 2017 executive action restricted travel from several Muslim-majority countries.
What is the Travel Ban?
Unlike criminal defendants, immigrants are not guaranteed this in court.
What is a government-appointed attorney?
A person granted asylum can apply for a green card after this amount of time.
What is one year?
A permanent resident may be removed for committing this category of crime.
What is an aggravated felony?
One requirement for naturalization is continuous residence for how many years (in most cases)?
What is 5 years?
This phrase refers to detaining families or children at the U.S. border.
What is family detention?
This official makes decisions in immigration court.
Who is an immigration judge?
Children without parents who are abused or neglected may qualify for this status.
What is Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS)?
This type of crime involving dishonesty can result in inadmissibility.
What is a crime involving moral turpitude (CIMT)?
The N-400 application is used for this purpose.
What is applying for naturalization?
This policy returned asylum seekers to Mexico while their claims were processed.
What is the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP)?
This process allows an immigrant to challenge a deportation order.
What is an appeal?
This visa protects victims of trafficking who assist law enforcement.
What is a T visa?
ICE places holds on immigrants in jail using this document.
What is a detainer?
A child automatically becomes a citizen if their parent naturalizes and they are this age or younger.
What is under 18?
This term is used to describe removing protections from undocumented youth.
What is rescinding DACA?
Immigration courts are housed within this department, not the judiciary.
What is the Department of Justice?
U and T visa holders must prove they meet this moral standard to adjust status.
What is good moral character?
This act expanded grounds for removal and limited judicial discretion in 1996.
What is the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA)?
People serving in this can gain expedited naturalization.
What is the U.S. military?
This policy separated children from parents at the border in 2018.
What is Zero Tolerance?