Visas: Grounds of Ineligibility

Official abstract

This rule implements the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA). The act adds new grounds of inadmissibility to the United States for: certain aliens who have not been inoculated against infectious diseases designated by statute or by the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP); aliens who have been subject to certain civil penalties; alien student visa abusers; aliens present in the United States without admission or parole; aliens who fail to attend removal proceedings; unlawful alien voters; and former citizens who renounced United States citizenship in order to avoid paying taxes. Some of the sections cited above also provide for waivers of a number of grounds of inadmissibility. The rule also incorporates into the Department's regulations a delegation of authority from the Immigration and Naturalization Service pertaining to waivers of inadmissibility under Sec. 212(a)(1)(A)(ii) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), as amended. Finally, this rule makes a few miscellaneous technical corrections.

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