A
ADIT -- Alien Documentation, Identification and Telecommunication System
AFACS -- A-Files Accountability and Control System
A File -- Basic Alien File (contains Alien #)
AILA -- American Immigration Lawyers Association
AO -- Asylum Officer
AOS -- Adjustment of Status
ARC -- Alien Registration Card (Green Card)
AVLOS -- Automated Visa Lookout System
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B
BCC -- Border Crossing Card (Mexico)
BHRHA -- Bureau of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs
BIA -- Board of Immigration Appeals
BP -- Border Patrol
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C
CAP -- Cuban Adjustment Program
CFR -- Code of Federal Regulations
CIJ -- Chief Immigration Judge
CIMT -- Crimes Involving Moral Turpitude
CIS -- Central Index System
CLAIMS -- Computer Linked Application Information Management Systems
CP -- Consular (immigrant) Processing
CSC -- California Service Center (Laguna Niguel)
CUSA -- Citizenship U.S.A.
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D
DD -- District Director
DED -- Deferred Enforced Departure
DO -- District Office; or Deportation Officer
DOE -- Date of Entry
DOL -- Department of Labor
DOS -- Department of State
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E
EAC -- Executive Associate Commissioner
EAD -- Employment Authorization Document
EOIR -- Executive Office for Immigration Review
ER -- Expedited Removal
EVD -- Extended Voluntary Departure
EWI -- Entry Without inspection
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F
FRC -- Federal Records Centers
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G
GREEN CARD -- Alien Registration Receipt Card (Form I-551)
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I
ICF -- Immigration Card Facility (Arlington, TX)
ICPS -- Integrated Card Production System
IDENT -- Automated Fingerprint Identification System
IE -- Immigration Examiner
II -- Immigration inspector
IIO -- Immigration Information Officer
IIRIRA -- Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act
IJ -- Immigration Judge
INA -- Immigration and Nationality Act
INV -- Investigations
IO -- Immigration Officer
IRCA -- Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
IV -- Immigrant Visa
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L
LAPR -- Lawfully Admitted for Permanent Residence
LAW -- Legally Authorized (or Admitted) Worker
LEA -- Law Enforcement Agency
LPR -- Lawful Permanent Resident
LULAC -- League of United Latin American Citizens
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M
MRD -- Machine Readable Document
MS&D Bond -- Maintenance of Status and Departure bond
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N
NACARA -- Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act
NACS -- Naturalization Automated Casework System
NAILS -- National Automated Immigration Lookout System
NARA -- National Archives and Records Administration
NATZ -- Naturalization
NCIC -- National Crime Information Center (FBI)
NGOs -- Non-Governmental Organizations
NIF -- Notice of Intent to Fine
NIV -- Non Immigrant Visa
NRC -- National Records Center
NSC -- Nebraska Service Center (Lincoln)
NTA -- Notice to Appear
NVC -- National Visa Center (Dept. of State)
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O
OI -- Operating instructions
ONO -- Office of Naturalization Operations
OSC -- Order to Show Cause
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P
PHS -- Public Health Service
POE -- Port-of-Entry
POMS -- Port-of-Entry Management System
PRC -- Permanent Resident Card
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R
RAFACS -- Receipt and Alien File Accountability and Control System
RAW -- Replenishment Agricultural Worker
RFE -- Request for Evidence
RTD -- Refugee Travel Document
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S
SAVE -- Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlement
SAW -- Special Agricultural Workers
SESA -- State Employment Services Agency
SIE -- Supervisory Immigration Examiner
SIO -- Supervisory Immigration Officer
SIO -- Special Inquiry Officer (Immigration Judge)
SLOB -- [Citizenship and Immigration] Services Lookout Book
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T
TAPS -- Telephone Application Processing System
TPS -- Temporary Protected Status
TSC -- Texas Service Center (Mesquite)
TRWOV -- Transit Without Visa
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U
UNHCR -- United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
USC -- U.S. Citizen
USCS -- United States Customs Service
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V
VD -- Voluntary Departure
VOLAG -- Voluntary Agency
VR -- Voluntary Return
VSC -- Vermont Service Center (St. Albans)
VWPP -- Visa Waiver Pilot Program
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