of visa applicants when they are in the process of applying for a visa with the intent to obtain a permanent residency/green card. There are a certain number of U.S. visa categories that grant permission for dual intent, or to get a temporary visa status while having an intention to get a green card and stay permanently in the United States of America. Most visas are named after the paragraph of the Code of Federal Regulations that established the visa. Visa denial Section 221(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act defined several classes of aliens ineligible to receive visas. Grounds for denial may include, but are not limited to: Risk of visa overstay Financial insecurity Having low or middle class income Having an informal job Unemployment Not having children and/or being single Relatives living in the United States Political, economic or social instability in the country of origin Incomplete education Health grounds Criminal history Security fears Public charge (charge means burden in this context) Illegal entrants or immigration violators Failure to produce requested documents Ineligible for citizenship Previously removed from the U.S. The spouse of a U.S. Citizen is almost always denied a visitor's (B1/B2) visa on the grounds that the spouse might want to stay in the United States. Section 214(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (also cited as 8 United States Code § 1184(b)) states that most aliens must be presumed to be intending to remain in the U.S., until and unless they are able to show that they are entitled to non-immigrant status. This means there are two sides to a 214(b) denial. Denials occur when applicants do not convince the consular officer of their intent to stay in the U.S. temporarily, or were qualified for the visa. An example of a denial based upon the first ground would be an applicant for an F-1 student visa who the consular officer felt was secretly intending to remain in the U.S. permanently. An example of a denial based upon the second ground would be an H-1B applicant who couldn't prove he possessed the equivalent of a U.S. bachelor's degree in a specialty field—such an equivalency being a requirement for obtaining an H-1B visa. In order to thereafter obtain a visa applicants are recommended to objectively evaluate their situation, see in what way they fell short of the visa requirements, and then reapply. In rare cases, Section 212(d)(3)