---
kind: "section"
citation: "8 C.F.R. § 245a.32"
title: "8"
number: "245a.32"
heading: "Ineligible aliens."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/8/245a.32"
---

# §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
- (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.

## Notes

### Source

Source: 66 FR 29673, June 1, 2001, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 8 U.S.C. 1101, 1103, 1255a and 1255a note.

### Source

Source: 52 FR 16208, May 1, 1987, unless otherwise noted.