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Alien (law)
In U.S. law, an alien is a legal term for a person, either a corporation or a human, who is not a United States national. The United States Government distinguishes between legal and illegal aliens. The government use of alien dates back to 1798, when the Alien and Sedition Acts defined aliens as potential enemies of the state. The related legal term foreigner refers to a citizen of the United States who is not a citizen of the state in question, as in a New York corporation is a foreign company inside New Jersey.

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Types of "alien" persons are:

  • An alien insurer is company which is a citizen of another country.
  • An alien who is legally permitted to remain in a country which is foreign to him or her. On specified terms, this kind of alien may be called a legal alien of that country.
  • An alien who has temporary or permanent residence in a country (which is foreign to him/her) may be called a resident alien of that country.
  • A visitor with the legal right to visit a country (which is foreign to him/her) may be called a nonresident alien of that country.
  • The term illegal alien as a pejorative commonly refers to a foreign national who resides in another country unlawfully, either by entering that country at a place other than a designated port-of-entry or as result of the expiration of a non-immigrant visa. A tourist who has the present intent to leave would be included as a legal alien described above. Today the preferred term is illegal immigrant, particularly if this person intends to remain in the country indefinitely.
  • An enemy alien is an alien who is designated as an enemy; compare to enemy combatant.

Other jurisdictions

  • In Latvian passports, a term meaning alien is used for so-called non-citizens (nepilsoņi): former citizens of USSR who have no citizenship, but have some legal ties with Latvia.

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Alienage and Naturalization
Jan 01, 2005; Alienage and Naturalization The constitutional law of alienage and naturalization reflects broader themes in American political,...
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Where Second Circuit denied rehearing en banc of case holding that citizens of UK "overseas territories" did not fall within the alienage jurisdiction of federal courts, strong dissent contends that majority opinion makes Circuit only one that leaves such citizens "stateless".
Sep 01, 2000; Federal courts may, under their alienage jurisdiction, hear cases or controversies between citizens of a State and citizens or...
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Keeping the Constitution's promise: an argument for greater judicial scrutiny of federal alienage classifications.
Nov 01, 2001; Aliens domiciled within our country by its consent, are entitled to all the guaranties for the protection of their persons and...
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In contract suit in federal court based on alienage jurisdiction, U.S. Supreme Court holds that British Virgin Islands corporations are "citizens or subjects of a foreign state" within meaning of 28 U.S. C. s. 1332(a)(2) on subject matter jurisdiction.
Jun 01, 2002; Traffic Stream (BVI) Infrastructure Ltd. (TSI) is a corporation organized under the laws of the British Virgin Islands (BVI), an...
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Third Circuit holds that, for federal subject matter jurisdiction to exist, Plaintiff with dual U.S. and foreign citizenship (1) may not rely upon her foreign nationality while living abroad as basis for alienage jurisdiction and (2) cannot rely on diversity clause, since Plaintiff was unable to show that she is domiciled in U.S. state diverse from that of all Defendants.
Jan 01, 2008; Plaintiff Merlene Frett-Smith was born in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), raised in the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI), and became...
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