1.   An expired visa could lead to deportation.

2.   Arrest documents show that dozens of the foreigners detained for questioning in the weeks since the attacks had been living here for months or years with expired temporary visas.

3.   Authorities quickly cleared Asem Atta of any connection to the attacks or terrorism, but the Immigration and Naturalization Service detained him in Houston for having an expired visa.

4.   Federal authorities also detained an Egyptian student with an expired visa in Alabama and held him briefly in metro Atlanta, advocates say.

5.   In some cases recently, the rules denied illegal immigrants marriage licenses because the only form of identification they brought was a foreign passport with an expired visa.

6.   Others have been picked up at airports, after checking in for domestic flights and showing passports with expired visas as identification.

7.   Some were living here on expired visas.

8.   The detainees include two Pakistani brothers from Birmingham arrested with expired visas at Hartsfield International Airport.

9.   The new language would allow the government to hold in custody those whose deportable violations are relatively minor, such as an expired visa.

10.   They rule on questions such as whether a person should be deported for a violation like an expired visa.