[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 8, Volume 1]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 8CFR245a.32]



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                     TITLE 8--ALIENS AND NATIONALITY

 

               CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

 

PART 245a_ADJUSTMENT OF STATUS TO THAT OF PERSONS ADMITTED FOR LAWFUL 

TEMPORARY OR PERMANENT RESIDENT STATUS UNDER SECTION 245A OF THE 

IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY ACT--Table of Contents

 

          Subpart C_LIFE Act Amendments Family Unity Provisions

 

Sec. 245a.32  Ineligible aliens.



    The following categories of aliens are ineligible for Family Unity 

benefits under the LIFE Act Amendments:

    (a) An alien who has been convicted of a felony or of three or more 

misdemeanors in the United States; or

    (b) An alien who has ordered, incited, assisted, or otherwise 

participated in



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the persecution of an individual because of the individual's race, 

religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or 

political opinion; or

    (c) An alien who has been convicted by a final judgment of a 

particularly serious crime and who is a danger to the community of the 

United States; or

    (d) An alien who the Attorney General has serious reasons to believe 

has committed a serious nonpolitical crime outside the United States 

before the alien arrived in the United States; or

    (e) An alien who the Attorney General has reasonable grounds to 

believe is a danger to the security of the United States.