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This glossary is not to insult someone's intelligence. We realize that the majority of our users are familiar with the majority of the terms below. However some terms are more specific than others and since we use them thoughout the site we thought it would be to everyone's advantage to link to their brief explanations here.

United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (until recently Immigration and Naturalization Service, or INS). I don't know how much of my taxpayer's money went into this name change, and what was the intended purpose of it, but nothing in this organization has changed to the better. Same ridiculous hold times on the phone, same overworked understaffed personnel, same obscure and often contradicting instructions.