INA §212 (2011): Inadmissible aliens

Classes of aliens ineligible for visas or admission

Health-related grounds

A.: In general
B.: Waiver authorized
C.: Exception from immunization requirement for adopted children 10 years of age or younger

Criminal and related grounds

Conviction of certain crimes

i.: In general
ii.: Exception

Multiple criminal convictions

Controlled substance traffickers

Prostitution and commercialized vice

Certain aliens involved in serious criminal activity who have asserted immunity from prosecution

Waiver authorized

Foreign government officials who have committed particularly severe violations of religious freedom

Significant traffickers in persons

i.: In general
ii.: Beneficiaries of trafficking
iii.: Exception for certain sons and daughters

Money laundering

Security and related grounds

Terrorist activities

i.: In general
ii.: Exception
iii.: “Terrorist activity” defined
iv.: “Engage in terrorist activity” defined
v.: “Representative” defined
vi.: “Terrorist organization” defined

i.: In general
ii.: Exception for officials
iii.: Exception for other aliens
iv.: Notification of determinations

Immigrant membership in totalitarian party

i.: In general
ii.: Exception for involuntary membership
iii.: Exception for past membership
iv.: Exception for close family members

Participants in Nazi persecution, genocide, or the commission of any act of torture or extrajudicial killing

i.: Participation in Nazi persecutions
ii.: Participation in genocide
iii.: Commission of acts of torture or extrajudicial killings

Association with terrorist organizations

Recruitment or use of child soldiers

A.: In general
B.: Factors to be taken into account
C.: Family-sponsored immigrants
D.: Certain employment-based immigrants

Labor certification and qualifications for certain immigrants

Labor certification

Certain aliens subject to special rule

Professional athletes

I.: In general
II.: “Professional athlete” defined

Long delayed adjustment applicants

Unqualified physicians

Uncertified foreign health-care workers

Application of grounds

Illegal entrants and immigration violators

Aliens present without admission or parole

i.: In general
ii.: Exception for certain battered women and children

Failure to attend removal proceeding

Misrepresentation

Falsely claiming citizenship

I.: In general
II.: Exception

Waiver authorized

i.: In general
ii.: Special rule in the case of family reunification
iii.: Waiver authorized

Subject of civil penalty

i.: In general
ii.: Waiver authorized

Student visa abusers

Documentation requirements

i.: In general
ii.: Waiver authorized

i.: In general
ii.: General waiver authorized
iii.: Guam and Northern Mariana Islands visa waiver
iv.: Visa waiver program

Ineligible for citizenship

A.: In general
B.: Draft evaders

Aliens previously removed

Certain aliens previously removed

i.: Arriving aliens
ii.: Other aliens
iii.: Exception

Aliens unlawfully present

Construction of unlawful presence

I.: Minors
II.: Asylees
III.: Family unity
IV.: Battered women and children
V.: Victims of a severe form of trafficking in persons

Tolling for good cause

Aliens unlawfully present after previous immigration violations

i.: In general
ii.: Exception
iii.: Waiver

Practicing polygamists

Guardian required to accompany helpless alien

International child abduction

i.: In general
ii.: Aliens supporting abductors and relatives of abductors
iii.: Exceptions

Unlawful voters

i.: In general
ii.: Exception

Former citizens who renounced citizenship to avoid taxation

Notices of denials

Repealed. Pub. L. 104–208, div. C, title III, §304(b), Sept. 30, 1996, 110 Stat. 3009–597

Temporary admission of nonimmigrants

Educational visitor status; foreign residence requirement; waiver

Suspension of entry or imposition of restrictions by President

Bond and conditions for admission of alien inadmissible on health-related grounds

Waiver of subsection (a)(2)(A)(i)(I), (II),(B), (D), and (E)

Admission of immigrant inadmissible for fraud or willful misrepresentation of material fact

Limitation on immigration of foreign medical graduates

Attorney General's discretion to admit otherwise inadmissible aliens who possess immigrant visas

Guam and Northern Mariana Islands visa waiver program

1.: In general
2.: Alien waiver of rights
3.: Regulations
4.: Factors
5.: Suspension
6.: Addition of countries

Requirements for admission of nonimmigrant nurses

Labor condition application

Computation of prevailing wage level

Academic honoraria

Exception for certain alien nurses

Consideration of benefits received as battered alien in determination of inadmissibility as likely to become public charge