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Applicant for admission (n.) is three polite words that mean detain.
Applicant for admission (n.) is the legal fiction that a person standing in Massachusetts is still at the border.
Applicant for admission (n.) is a status that makes arriving and entering the same act, however long ago it happened.
Applicant for admission (n.) is what the law calls someone who has been here twenty years and never knocked.
Applicant for admission (n.) is a phrase that turns a resident into a stranger at the door.