Immigration Service Investigation (From Criminal and Civil Investigation Handbook, P 4-129 to 4-133, 1981, Joseph J Grau and Ben Jacobson, ed. - See NCJ-84274)

• NCJ Number: 84300
• Author(s): G P LaSalle
• Date Published: 1981
• Length: 5 pages
• Sale Source: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: *This document is currently unavailable from NCJRS.

Annotation

Categories of aliens are explained, and a new sophisticated system of identification for aliens is described.

Abstract

Categories of aliens are (1) immigrants, who have been admitted for permanent residence and must comply with certain registration procedures; (2) nonimmigrants, who are admitted temporarily for specific purposes and periods of time; (3) parolees, who are sometimes paroled into the United States at the discretion of the Government; and (4) illegal entrants, who have entered the United States in such a manner or place as to avoid inspection. The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) is implementing a new sophisticated system of identification for aliens. The Alien Documentation, Identification and Telecommunication System (ADIT) is designed to replace existing alien registration receipt cards (green cards) and nonresident alien border crossing cards (I-86), which legal aliens are required to carry. ADIT will consist of an ID card; automated card, visa, and passport readers at about 200 ports of entry; telecommunications lines; minicomputers; and automated access from field locations to the documentation files that INS is required to maintain on aliens. ADIT is not imposing any new requirements for alien registration; it simply replaces easily compromised documents with new ones which will be virtually impossible to tamper with. With a working knowledge of how to determine proper immigration status, law enforcement officers of any agency now have an added tool at their disposal.