I. INTRODUCTION

II. BASIC PROCESS AND ADMINISTRATIVE STRUCTRUE

Process and Players

Consuls and the Visa Process

Adjustment of Status

Immigration and Naturalization Service

Immigration Judges and the Board of Immigration Appeals

Other Appeals

Terminology: Exclusion Versus Deportation

Key Documents

III. CONSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK

Federal and State Powers

Individual Rights

Substantive Provisions of the Immigration Laws

Applicability of Procedural Due Process Review

Standards for Procedural Due Process Review

Detention

IV. ADMISSION CATEGORIES

Nonimmigrant Categories

Immigrant Categories

Initiating the Admission Process

Family Reunification

Offspring

Marriages

Labor Certification

V. GROUNDS FOR EXCLUSION AND DEPORTATION

Grounds for Exclusion

Health Grounds

Economic Grounds

Criminal Grounds

Quasi-Criminal and Moral Grounds

Grounds Related to Immigration Processing

National-Security Grounds

Waivers of Excludability

Grounds for Deportation

Grounds Based on Preentry Characteristics

Grounds Based on Postentry Behavior

VI. RELIEF FROM DEPORTATION

Suspension of Deportation

Statutory Eligibility

Discretion

Motions to Reopen

Other Provisions Leading to Permanent Relief

Adjustment of Status

Registry

Section212(c)

Other Relief from Deportation

Voluntary Departure

Prosecutorial Discretion

Stay of Deportation

VII. POLITICAL ASYLUM

Background

Statutory Provisions

Procedures

Standards

Evidence

Basis of the Threat

Degree of Threat

VIII. JUDICIAL REVIEW

Background

Review in Accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act

Petitions for Review of Deportation Orders

Procedure

Pendent Jurisdiction

Exhaustion of Remedies

Departure While Review Is Pending

Judicial Review of Visa Denials

IX. ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION AND THE 1986 REFORMS

Overview

Employer Sanctions

Coverage

Verification

Documents

Enforcement and Penalties

Judicial Review

Transition

Antidiscrimination

Coverage

Procedures

Legalization

Scope

Benefits

Procedures

Cuban-Haitian Entrants

Agricultural Workers

H-2A Nonimmigrants

Special Agricultural Workers

Replenishment Agricultural Workers

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

TABLE OF CASES