Technical Terms on US Immigration

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  1. Ability to Pay
  2. AC21 – American Competitiveness in the Twenty-first Century Act of 2000
  3. Approvals
  4. AD - Approval Date
  5. Advocacy/Lobbying
  6. Anti Immigrants
  7. AOS - Adjustment of status
  8. AOS - Affidavit of Support (Department of State definition, AOS means Affidavit of Support )
  9. AP - Advance Parole (I-131) - is the authorization to travel outside the US while her adjustment of status is pending
  10. AR - Administrative Review
  11. ARC - Alien Registration Receipt Card (aka Green Card)
  12. ASC – Application Support Center - offers fingerprinting services
  13. Labor Audit
  14. Backlog Center
  15. BC - Birth Certificate
  16. Bio - Biometrics (Digital photo, index finger FP and your digital signature. This is needed for the production of GC.
  17. Citizenship
  18. CP - Consular Processing
  19. CPO - Card Production Ordered
  20. CPR - Conditional Permanent Resident
  21. Cross Chargeabilty
  22. Contacting Senators/Congressmen
  23. Country of Chargeability
  24. Consular Processing
  25. CSC - California Service Center
  26. CWOP - Cancelled Without Prejudice
  27. DCF - Direct Consular filing
  28. DHS - Department of Homeland Security
  29. DIL - Dictionary of Immigration Lingo
  30. DO - District Office
  31. DORA - Dallas Office Rapid Adjustment of Status
  32. DOL - Department of Labor
  33. DOS - Department of State
  34. EAC - Eastern Application Center
  35. EAC - Reciept Number starting with this means it is being processed at the Vermont Service Center
  36. EAD - Employment Authorization Document (I-765, approval to work while waiting for AOS Approval)
  37. EVL - Employment Verification Letter
  38. ETA - Employment and Training Administration
  39. FBI Name Checks
  40. IV Flower Campaign
  41. FP - Finger printing.
  42. GC - Green Card
  43. HR 5882
  44. Hard LUD - LUD plus status change.
  45. ID - Interview Date
  46. iEAD - Interim Employment Authorization Document (If your EAD application has been pending past 90 days from the RD (not ND) you can go to your District Office to apply for an iEAD, this will allow you to work while your actual EAD is still pending.)
  47. Exploitation
  48. Labor Certification - Labor Certification
  49. LCA - Labor Conditition Application
  50. INA - Immigration and Nationality Act
  51. INFOPASS - An Internet-based system that enables the public to go online to schedule appointments with immigration IOs at USCIS http://infopass.uscis.gov/
  52. INS - Immigration and Naturalization Service
  53. Interfiling
  54. IO - Immigration officer
  55. Illegal Immigration
  56. Immigrant Petition
  57. Immigration Voice
  58. LIN - Reciept Number starting with this means it is being processed at the NSC
  59. LPR - Lawful Permanent Resident
  60. LUD - Last Updated Date
    Last Update Date. The Date that shows up in the USCIS application when you view it online.
  61. MSC - Missouri Service Center
  62. MTR - Motion to Reconsider
  63. Nationality - Citizenship
  64. NBC - National Benefit Center (is the one which process your forms initially)
  65. ND - Notice Date (When USCIS notified you that they received your application)
  66. ND - Notice Date. Mostly the date on which the I-485 app was entered into the USCIS database. (Note - For most July 2nd filers, the notice and receipt dates are more than a month apart).
  67. NOA’s - Notice of Action is your receipt/letter that you received after you filed your forms indicates I-797C
  68. NSC - Nebraska Service Center
  69. NVC - National Visa Center
  70. OFLC - ETA's Office of Foreign Labor Certification
  71. Ombudsman
  72. OPT - Optional Practical Training
  73. Out of Status
  74. PCC - Police Clearance Certificate
  75. PD - Priority Date. Date when the labour was FIRST submitted.
  76. Per Country Limit
  77. PERM - Program Electronic Review Management (Permanent Labor Certification Program that took effect on March 28, 2005)
  78. POE - Port of entry
  79. POJ method
  80. PP - Premium Processing
  81. Porting priority date
  82. Priority Date
  83. RD - Receipt Date (When USCIS received your application)
  84. Retrogression
  85. RFE - Request for Evidence
  86. RFI - Request for Initial Evidence
  87. ROW. Rest of the world. It is a country category. There is China, India, Mexico, Philippinnes and Rest of the world(ROW).
  88. Same or Similar
  89. San Jose Rally
  90. SC - Service Center (this is used with a prefix, eg CSC - California Service Center; MSC - Missouri Service Center (that is the address from where you will received your NOA's)
  91. Service Center
  92. Soft LUD - There is only LUD change. No change in status.
  93. SRC - Reciept Number starting with this means it is being processed at the TSC
  94. SSA - Social Security Administration
  95. SSN - Social Security Number
  96. SWA - State Workforce Agencies
  97. Technology Alert List (TAL)
  98. TSC - Texas Service Center
  99. USC - US Citizen
  100. USCIS - United States Citizenship And Immigration Services
  101. VB - Visa Bulletin. The monthly (pain in the neck) bulletin that the USCIS/DOS prints out.
  102. Visa Number
  103. VSC - Vermont Service Center
  104. Yates Memo
  105. WAC - Reciept Number starting with this means it is being processed at the California Service Center
  106. Writ of Mandamus



References

- http://immigrationvoice.org/forum/forum85-action-items-for-everyone/17659-all-technical-terms-on-immigration.html -

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