1.   ...immigrant visas.

2.   A second provision would actually encourage illegals to stay underground rather than risk going abroad, as they might soon have to, to obtain immigrant visas.

3.   Adlerstein said she told many of her clients that they would likely get speedier service if they returned to their home countries and applied for immigrant visas from there.

4.   Fox reportedly would like to ask the United States to consider a dramatic increase in the number of immigrant visas it grants to Mexicans annually.

5.   If they do not qualify as refugees, they should be allowed to apply for an immigrant visa, as other Cubans now can.

6.   In the past decade, the number of immigrant visas given to orphans coming to America from overseas has nearly tripled, according to the U.S. State Department.

7.   Shiltgen also noted that Tedeeva could have spared herself some misery by agreeing to voluntary departure months ago and applying for an immigrant visa.

8.   Some lawmakers said it sends the wrong message to combine the job of processing legitimate immigrant visas with that of border control in the new department.

9.   Still, temporary visas are easier to get and more common than permanent immigrant visas.

10.   The INS said the decreases came about mainly because of a lack of demand for employment-based immigrant visas.