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29 unusual facts about Immigration and Naturalization Service


Adelaide Abankwah

The INS officials suspected that her passport had been forged or otherwise altered, had her detained and began proceedings to expel her.

American Friends of the British National Party

On November 7, 2002, the Immigration and Naturalization Service prevented Cotterill from re-entering the country, saying that he lied about his initial reasons for coming in 1999 and summarily violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

Border Incident

"Here is the All-American Canal. It runs through the desert for miles along the California-Mexico border... Farming in Imperial Valley... requires a vast army of farm workers... and this army of farm workers comes from our neighbor to the south, from Mexico. ... It is this problem of human suffering and injustice about which you should know. The following composite case is based upon factual information supplied by the Immigration and Naturalization Service..."

Canadian Council for Refugees

The CCR said that refugees became far less likely to show up for their asylum hearings starting in January 2003 when Canadian officials stopped asking the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the United States to guarantee that these refugees would not be arrested.

Damon Keith

On December 14, 2001, the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (“INS”) took Haddad into custody for overstaying his visa and initiated removal proceedings in Detroit before Immigration Judge Elizabeth Hacker.

Deborah Spero

Immediately before serving as Deputy Commissioner, Ms. Spero directed CBP’s transition team, coordinating the unprecedented merger of work-forces from three legacy agencies (U.S. Customs Service, U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service) to form the 42,000-employee U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Deep Fried and Minty Fresh

Brass calls Nick: INS has found Elizabeth Martin and determined she is an illegal immigrant.

Duncan Pryde

He had problems with Immigration and was forced to leave the United States until his residency issues were settled.

Edwin B. Howard

Upon his retirement from the Army in 1954, Howard became a consultant for the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS).

Federal Correctional Institution, Seagoville

After the attack on Pearl Harbor the government converted the center into a Federal Detention Station for enemy aliens, monitored by the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service, which held German, Italian, and Japanese families.

Fresh Bones

McAlpin is the second purported suicide among troops stationed at an INS compound processing refugees from Haiti.

Garrison Courtney

Previous to working for the DEA, Courtney was the Seattle District public affairs and community outreach director with the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) for Northern Idaho, Washington and British Columbia.

Huffman Aviation

In August, the school filed the necessary INS paperwork in order to allow both pilots to switch from 'tourist' Visas, to 'student', in order to allow them to enroll in the school's piloting program.

Immigration and Naturalization Service

The 2000 documentary film Well-Founded Fear, from filmmakers Shari Robertson and Michael Camerini marked the first time that a film-crew was privy to the private proceedings at the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS), where individual asylum officers ponder the often life-or-death fate of the majority of immigrants seeking asylum.

In November 1979, Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti announced that INS "raids" would only take place at places of work, not at residences where illegal aliens were suspected of living.

The 2000 documentary Well-Founded Fear provided the first and only time a film crew was privy to a behind-the-scenes look at the INS asylum process in the U.S.

Jacob Weinberger United States Courthouse

Originally called the U.S. Post Office and Customs House, the building also housed the U.S. District Court, Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), and the U.S. Weather Bureau.

Leonard F. Chapman, Jr.

In retirement, he served as the Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

General Chapman retired January 1, 1972 and became Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

Margaret Randall

The INS district director gave the justification that "her writings go far beyond mere dissent".

New Technology Management Inc.

From these modest beginnings, NTMI has grown to become a major supplier of technology products and services to government agencies such as the U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, U.S. Department of the Treasury, U.S. Customs Service, U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service(INS) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Richard Shindell

Shindell's songwriting often involves storytelling from a first-person point of view: an INS officer and illegal immigrant in "Fishing," a World War II soldier in "Sparrow's Point," a Confederate drummerboy in "Arrowhead," an Argentine grandmother in "Abuelita," and a power broker in "Confession."

Shahine Robinson

However, the following year, she handed back her U.S. passport at an Immigration and Naturalization Service office in Key Biscayne, Florida in advance of the Jamaican general election, 2007, stating that she believed this constituted renunciation of U.S. citizenship.

The Visa

But now it seems that Babu is being hauled off by the INS.

Thomas C. Ferguson

From 1984 to 1987 Mr. Ferguson was Deputy Commissioner and Chief Operating Officer of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service in Washington, DC.

Tscherim Soobzokov

In 2006, declassified documents of the Central Intelligence Agency confirmed that Soobzokov had been a CIA agent in Jordan and that the agency had misled the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service on Soobzokov's Nazi past.

V. O. Key, Jr.

After their marriage and continuing into the 1950s, Luella Key (she did not use her first name) worked at the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service.

Walter Polovchak

The case became a Cold War cause célèbre after the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) allowed him to stay against his parents' will, even as his parents pursued legal means to retake the custody of their son.

You Chung Hong

There he worked as an interpreter for the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service and taught English to recent immigrants as a means to pay for his education.


1985 in LGBT rights

30 — A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in a 2—1 opinion written by Anthony Kennedy, affirms in the case of Adams v. Howerton that the Immigration and Naturalization Service did not abuse its authority when it refused to recognize the marriage of Australian Anthony Sullivan and Richard Adams, under a license issued by Boulder County, Colorado in 1975, for purposes of Sullivan's immigration.

Alfred V. Rascon

Rascon has also worked for the Department of Justice’s, Drug Enforcement Administration, INTERPOL (U.S. National Central Bureau), and the Immigration & Naturalization Service.

Asylum in the United States

The 2000 documentary film Well-Founded Fear, from filmmakers Shari Robertson and Michael Camerini marked the first time that a film-crew was privy to the private proceedings at the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS), where individual asylum officers ponder the often life-or-death fate of the majority of immigrants seeking asylum.

Cole McNary

Cole McNary is the son of Gene McNary, the former Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Executive Director of the Missouri Gaming Commission, and County Executive of St. Louis County.

Student and Exchange Visitor Program

In 1997, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) -- now dismantled and recreated in the services-oriented United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and the enforcement-oriented US Immigration and Customs Enforcement -- developed a pilot program called Coordinated Interagency Partnership Regulating International Students (CIPRIS) in collaboration with the Department of State.