otherwise admissible
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 385 U.S. 214 - Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Errico Scott · 1966Most cited · 434 citing opinions
Congress must have felt that aliens who evaded quota restrictions by fraud would be 'otherwise admissible at the time of entry' or it would not have found it necessary to provide further that, in the case of an alien not possessing a close familial relationship to a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident, the fraud must not be for the purpose of evading quota restrictions.
How often courts cite the case defining “otherwise admissible”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “otherwise admissible” — 434 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.