Passports issued to United States citizens provide proof of identity abroad and request, in the name of the secretary of state, that the holder be permitted to travel "without delay or hindrance" and, if necessary, ...
Passport definition:
A document issued in the name of a government vouching for the citizenship of an identified individual.
Canada's Criminal Code defines a passport as: ...
Passport. See Sea-letter.
Patent. French patent; Latin patere, to lie open. Open to inspection; not closed by sealing. A "patent" is is a grant by the crown or government. Grants by the king of lands, honors, liberties, franchises, etc.
Passport Denial Program: The names of obligors that owe $5,000 or more in child support are sent to the federal Office of Child Support Enforcement for tax refund offset and to the U.S.
PASSPORT, SEA BRIEF, or SEA LETTER, maritime law. A paper containing a permission from the neutral state to the captain or master of a ship or vessel to proceed on the voyage proposed; it usually contains his name and residence; the name, ...
A passport stamp or document that authorizes the passport-holder to enter a country for specific purposes for a particular time period.
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machine readable passport (mrp) A passport which has biographic information entered on the data page according to international specifications. A machine readable passport is required to travel with a visa on the Visa Waiver ...
And the foreign office, by granting passports to naturalized persons, acts on the same view.
Does the person have a passport or valid I.D. card and is he/she in possession of such documents?
What is the pay and conditions of employment?
Does the person live at home or at/near the work site?
Crew list: list prepared by the master of a ship showing the full names, nationality, passport or discharge book number, rank and age of every officer and crew member engaged on board that ship.
A stamp placed in a foreign national's passport by an official at a U.S. consulate outside of the United States. All visas allow their holders to enter the United States. Visas can be designated as either immigrant visas or nonimmigrant visas.
Visa - An official endorsement on a document or passport denoting that the bearer may proceed.
visitation rights - Right to visit a child usually given to a parent who does not have physical custody of the child.
SAFE-CONDUCT,
comm. law, war. A passport or permission from a neutral state to persons who are thus authorized to go and return in safety, and, sometimes, to... more ...
CONGE' - A French word which signifies permission, and is understood in that sense in law. In the French maritime law, it is a species of passport or permission to navigate, delivered by public authority. It is also in the nature of a clearance.
- the Old English verb "to let" meaning to hinder has now fallen out of everyday use. It was common from old English times to the 19th century. J. Copley; Shift of Meaning
[The phrase without let or hindrance is still used on the British passport].
857 (D.Md.1961), a federal district court in Maryland found that passport fraud was litigable under ATS. On the other hand, the Supreme Court in Sosa held that a brief unlawful detention in which torture occurred did not warrant ATS damages.
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