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NATO-5 Visa | Expert, Other Than NATO Officials Classifiable Under the NATO-4, Employed in Missions on Behalf of NATO, and their Dependents. | | NATO-6 Visa | Member of a Civilian Component Accompanying a Force Entering in Accordance with the Provisions of the NATO Status-of-Forces Agreement; Member of a Civilian Component Attached to or Employed by an Allied Headquarters Under the Protocol on the Status of International Military Headquarters Set Up Pursuant to the North Atlantic Treaty; and their Dependents. | |
NATO-7 Visa | Attendant, Servant, or Personal Employee of NATO-1, NATO-2,
NATO-3, NATO-4, NATO-5, and
NATO-6 Classes, or Immediate Family. | |
Naturalization | The conferring, by any means, of citizenship upon a person after birth. | |
Naturalization Application | The form used by a lawful permanent resident to apply for
US citizenship. The application is filed with the Immigration and Naturalization Service at the Service Center with jurisdiction over the applicant's place of residence. | |
Nonimmigrant | An alien who seeks temporary entry to the United States for a specific purpose. The alien must have a permanent residence abroad (for most classes of admission) and qualify for the nonimmigrant classification sought.
The nonimmigrant classifications include:
foreign government officials, visitors for business and for pleasure, aliens in transit through the United States,
treaty traders and investors, students,
international representatives, temporary workers and trainees,
representatives of foreign information media, exchange visitors, fiance(e) of US citizens,
intra-company transferees, NATO officials, religious workers, and some others. Most non-immigrants can be accompanied or joined by spouses and unmarried minor (or dependent) children. | |
Nonimmigrant Visa |
A nonimmigrant visa is given to someone who lives in another country and wishes to come temporarily to the United States for a specific purpose. Nonimmigrant visas are given to people such as
tourists,
business people,
students,
temporary workers, and
diplomats.
| | Nonpreference Category | Nonpreference visas were available to qualified applicants not entitled to a visa under the preferences until the category was eliminated by the Immigration Act of 1990. Nonpreference visas for persons not entitled to the other preferences had not been available since September 1978 because of high demand in the preference categories. An additional 5,000 nonpreference visas were available in each of fiscal years 1987 and 1988 under a provision of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. This program was extended into 1989, 1990, and 1991 with 15,000 visas issued each year. Aliens born in countries from which immigration was adversely affected by the Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1965 (Public Law 89-236) were eligible for the special nonpreference visas. |
North American
Free-Trade Agreement
(NAFTA) | Public Law 103-182 (Act of 12/8/93), superseded the United States-Canada Free-Trade Agreement as of 1/1/94. It continues the special, reciprocal trading relationship between the United States and Canada (see United States-Canada Free-Trade Agreement), and establishes a similar relationship with Mexico. | | Numerical Limit, Exempt from | Those aliens accorded lawful permanent residence who are exempt from the provisions of the flexible numerical limit of 675,000 set by the Immigration Act of 1990. Exempt categories include
immediate relatives of US citizens, refugees, asylees (limited to 10,000 per year by section 209(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act), Amerasians, aliens adjusted under the legalization provisions of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, and certain parolees from the former Soviet Union and Indochina. | |
Nursing Relief Act of 1989 | Public Law 101-238 (Act of 12/18/89), provides for the
adjustment to permanent resident status of certain nonimmigrants who as of September 1, 1989, had H-1 nonimmigrant status as
registered nurses; who had been employed in that capacity for at least 3 years; and whose continued nursing employment meets certain
labor certification requirements. |
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