[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 8, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2010]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 8CFR245a.32]

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                     TITLE 8--ALIENS AND NATIONALITY
 
               CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
 
     PART 245a_ADJUSTMENT OF STATUS TO THAT OF PERSONS ADMITTED FOR LAWFUL TEMPORARY OR PERMANENT RESIDENT STATUS UNDER SECTION 245A OF THE IMMIGRATION AND 
NATIONALITY ACT--Table of Contents
 
          Subpart C_LIFE Act Amendments Family Unity Provisions
 
Sec. 245a.32  Ineligible aliens.

    The following categories of aliens are ineligible for Family Unity 
benefits under the LIFE Act Amendments:
    (a) An alien who has been convicted of a felony or of three or more 
misdemeanors in the United States; or
    (b) An alien who has ordered, incited, assisted, or otherwise 
participated in the persecution of an individual because of the 
individual's race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular 
social group, or political opinion; or
    (c) An alien who has been convicted by a final judgment of a 
particularly serious crime and who is a danger to the community of the 
United States; or

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    (d) An alien who the Attorney General has serious reasons to believe 
has committed a serious nonpolitical crime outside the United States 
before the alien arrived in the United States; or
    (e) An alien who the Attorney General has reasonable grounds to 
believe is a danger to the security of the United States.