| Immigration Marriage Fraud Amendments of 1986 | Public Law 99-639 (Act of 11/10/86), which was passed in order to deter immigration-related marriage fraud. Its major provision stipulates that aliens deriving their immigrant status based on a marriage of less than two years are conditional immigrants. To remove their conditional status the immigrants must apply at an Immigration and Naturalization Service office during the 90-day period before their second-year anniversary of receiving conditional status. If the aliens cannot show that the marriage through which the status was obtained was and is a valid one, their conditional immigrant status may be terminated and they may become deportable. |
| Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) of 1986 | Public Law 99-603 (Act of 11/6/86), which was passed in order to control and deter illegal immigration to the United States. Its major provisions stipulate legalization of undocumented aliens who had been continuously unlawfully present since 1982, legalization of certain
agricultural workers, sanctions for employers who knowingly hire undocumented workers, and increased enforcement at US borders. |
| Inadmissible | An alien seeking admission at a port of entry who does not meet the criteria in the INA for admission. The alien may be placed in
removal proceedings or, under certain circumstances, allowed to withdraw his or her application for admission. |
| International Representative | As a nonimmigrant class of admission, an alien coming temporarily to the United States as a principal or other accredited representative of a foreign government (whether officially recognized or not recognized by the United States) to an international organization, an international organization officer or employee, and all above aliens' spouses and unmarried minor (or dependent) children. |
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Intracompany Transferee | An alien, employed for at least one continuous year out of the last three by an international firm or corporation, who seeks to enter the United States temporarily in order to continue to work for the same employer, or a subsidiary or affiliate, in a capacity that is primarily managerial, executive, or involves specialized knowledge, and the alien's spouse and minor unmarried children. |
| IRCA | See Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. |
