Index

• Author: Elizabeth Anne Campbell; Rachel DeLia Settlage; Veronica Thronson
• Pages: 147-158

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A

Adjustment of status, 103

Admissibility, 8–9

dened, 103

Special Immigrant Juvenile

Status and, 79–81

T visa and, 59–60

U visa petitions and, 40

Violence Against Women Act

removal cancellation

and, 31

Violence Against Women Act

self‑petitions and,

19–20

Admission, dened, 103

Aggravated felony, dened, 103

Alien, dened, 103, 108, 109

Application for admission, dened,

103

Arriving alien, dened, 103

Asylees, 6–7, 88

Asylum

afrmative application for,

100–102

as discretionary, 96

bars to, 95–96

Convention against Torture and,

89, 97, 100, 100–102

defensive application for, 102

derivative applicant in, 89, 99

eligibility requirements for,

89–90

employment authorization, 99

Form I‑589, Application

for Asylum and

for Withholding of

Removal, 100

nationality and, 93

nature of relief in, 99

on account of/nexus and, 91–94

past persecution and, 90–91

political opinion and, 92

race and, 92

religion and, 93

removal withholding and, 89,

97, 99–100, 100–102

social group membership and,

93–94

well‑founded fear in, 94–95

Attorney, dened, 104

Attorney general, dened 104

B

Bars, to asylum, 95–96

Battered Immigrant Women

Protection Act, 33. See

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