Multiple Criminal Convictions (Immigration) Law and Legal Definition
According to 8 USCS 1227 [Title 8. Aliens and Nationality; Chapter 12. Immigration and Nationality; Immigration; Inspection, Apprehension, Examination, Exclusion, and Removal], "Multiple criminal convictions" means "any alien who at any time after admission is convicted of two or more crimes involving moral turpitude, not arising out of a single scheme of criminal misconduct, regardless of whether confined therefore and regardless of whether the convictions were in a single trial, is deportable."
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Related Legal Terms
- Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences [ACJS]
- Accompanying Relative [Immigration]
- Adjust Status [Immigration]
- Administration of Criminal Justice
- Administrative Appeals Office [Immigration]
- Adopted Decision [Immigration]
- Agricultural Worker [Immigration]
- American Board of Criminalistics
- American Immigration Lawyers Association
- Armed Career Criminal
