| Nonimmigrants - Visa Types - Business or Pleasure Visitors -Border Crossing Cards |
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| For business and visitor travel to the United States, both citizens and permanent residents of Mexico must have nonimmigrant Border Crossing Cards (BCC), also known as laser visas, which are machine-readable, biometric visas typically issued to Mexican visitors to the U.S. BCCs are issued to both business and pleasure travelers. More... |
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| Controlling Alien Admission - Alien Rights - SAVE Program - Immigrant Status Verification |
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| The Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements Program, also known as the SAVE Program, provides a uniform way by which the status of immigrant applicants for public benefits may be verified. When aliens apply for certain types of public benefits, governmental agencies can check the SAVE database, known as the Verification Information System (VIS), to determine the alien's current immigration status, a critical component of eligibility for public benefits. More... |
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| Controlling Alien Admission - Humanitarian Parole |
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| Parole is a procedure whereby an inadmissible alien is permitted to enter the United States for a temporary period due to some type of emergency situation. Humanitarian parole is authorized by § 212 of the Immigration and Naturalization Act (INA), which gives discretionary authority to the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to parole aliens into the United States on a case-by-case basis for "urgent humanitarian reasons" or "significant public benefit." Humanitarian parole is only available to aliens who are outside the United States. More... |
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| Immigrants - Farmworkers - Replenishment Agricultural Workers-Benefits |
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| The replenishment agricultural worker (RAW) legalization program, established by the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA), was designed to provide immigration benefits to farm workers who entered the country after a shortage of agricultural workers was deemed to have occurred. During the four-year span of the program, a shortage did not occur. However, had workers been needed, they would have received favorable immigration treatment. For example, not only would they have received temporary U.S. residency followed by permanent residency, the terms of their employment and stays in the U.S. would have been quite broad. More... |
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| Visa Types - Canadian And Mexican Trade Visas - NAFTA-TN |
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| Canadian and Mexicans who wish to trade in the United States under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) or the United States-Canada Free-Trade Agreement may be eligible to enter using TN nonimmigrant visas. The purpose of the U.S. trip must be to carry on business activities at a professional level, and the trip must be temporary in nature.
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