The terms of nonimmigrant status include, but are not limited to:
- Time limitations on the period of admission and any subsequent extensions or changes of status;
- Compliance with applicable requirements of the type of the visa status involved;
- Limitations on employment or limitations on work authorizations (if any);
- Never to engage in unauthorized employment;
- Claim benefits which one is not legally entitled as a nonimmigrant;
- Compliance with any registration, photographing, and fingerprinting requirements that relate to the maintenance of nonimmigrant status;
- Full and truthful disclosure of all information requested by USCIS; and
- Obedience to all laws of U.S. jurisdictions which prohibit the commission of crimes of violence. (A violation could place one into deportation proceedings such as drunk driving, the visa revoked, or put in deportation proceedings for any alleged crime which has a "potential" sentence of more than one-year imprisonment).
Also, one should not fall into any of the categories of “deportable aliens (non-citizens).” The legal provisions in Immigration and Nationality Act governs the deportability of non-citizens who are in the United States and was admitted into the U.S. The law also provides for several grounds for waivers of deportability and provides some exceptions from specific deportability grounds including the following, among others:
(1) Inadmissible at time of entry or of adjustment of status or violates status
(A) Inadmissible aliens
Any alien who at the time of entry or adjustment of status was within one or more of the classes of aliens inadmissible by the law existing at such time is deportable.
(B) Present in the U.S. in violation of law
Any alien who is present in the United States in violation of immigration or any other law of the United States, or whose nonimmigrant visa (or other documentation authorizing admission into the United States as a nonimmigrant) has been revoked is deportable.
(C) Violated nonimmigrant status or condition of entry
(i) Nonimmigrant status violators
Any alien who was admitted as a nonimmigrant and who has failed to maintain the nonimmigrant status in which the alien was admitted or to which it was changed or to comply with the conditions of any such status, is deportable.
(ii) Violators of conditions of entry
Any alien whom the Secretary of Health and Human Services certifies has failed to comply with terms, conditions, and controls that were imposed under vaccination requirements under the law is deportable.
(2) Criminal offenses
(3) Use, possession or trafficking of controlled substances (illegal drugs including marijuana)
(4) Document fraud
... and many others
Note: This is a blog post by Adhikari Law PLLC as an informational purpouse only and should NOT be construed as a legal advice.
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