While one of the rulings was broadly enough worded to apply even to aliens who were not lawfully admitted to the country, the ruling the Supreme Court agreed to review today was limited to lawful permanent residents.

If you are deported or removed from the United States for certain reasons, your Social Security benefits are stopped and cannot be started again unless you are lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence.

Birth certifications for alien children adopted by U.S. citizens and lawfully admitted to the United States may be obtained from the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) if the birth information is on file.

The restrictions would now apply to people lawfully admitted during the last five years.

This prohibition does not apply to foreign citizens who are lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the United States (those who have "green cards").

Mr. Olson told the court that there were more than 1,000 people in this category, immigrants who were never lawfully admitted, had been found deportable and have been in detention for more than six months.

The child lives abroad in the legal and physical custody of the American citizen parent and has been lawfully admitted into the United States as a nonimmigrant.

Under the legislation passed Sunday, aliens who have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence would be treated as citizens for the purposes of operating fishing vessels.

These other requirements include, but are not limited to, assets, age, pregnancy, disability, blindness, income and resources, and one's status as a U.S. citizen or a lawfully admitted immigrant.

They are: Executive Order 11935 requiring citizenship in the competitive civil service, the annual appropriations act ban on paying aliens from many countries, and the immigration law ban on employing aliens unless they are lawfully admitted for permanent residence or otherwise authorized to be employed.