Employee of U.S. Mission in Hong Kong (limit of 500 and these persons are admitted exempt from the country limitation) .
Employee of U.S. Mission in Hong Kong (limit of 500 and these persons are admitted exempt from the country limitation) .
- 01Immigrant Category
- Special legislation, special factual circumstances, or historical systems
- 02Method of Obtaining Status
- Adjustment of status or creation of an LPR record
- 03Applicant Role
- Principal applicant / individual themself
- 04Nature of Residency
- Permanent resident
Code source:Code source confirmed
This code appears in an official code table or official announcement; this establishes only that the code exists, not that all fields have been verified or that applications are currently open.
Notes on Code and Data SourcesAvailability status (code and pathway assessed separately)
Code status
The code's presence in official materials proves only that the code exists; it does not indicate whether the pathway is open.
Underlying pathway status
This site has not yet verified through official materials whether this pathway is currently available; the existence of a code is not used to presume that it is open or closed.
Not all of the following working fields have completed legal review. See the newly added verification for the current status of the pathway; unverified fields, such as translated names and legal authorities, are not thereby elevated to verified status, nor does this constitute individualized legal advice.
02One-Sentence Status Summary
Employee of U.S. Mission in Hong Kong (limit of 500 and these persons are admitted exempt from the country limitation) .(Chinese paraphrase of the original meaning not yet available)
05Pathway Family and Related Immigration Pathways
Pathway family (working classification):Special legislation, special factual circumstances, or historical systems
Correspondence to specific subpathwaysUnsubstantiated / Pending Review: This edition retains only the working pathway-family classification provided by the source catalog.
Difficulty-of-Obtaining Scorev1
This site has not yet established a vetted factual assessment for this pathway; no inference is made from the code number.
An assessment under this site's editorial rules, not a government score, probability of approval, or individualized legal conclusion.Scoring Methodology
06Applicant Role
Source catalog's working classification:Principal applicant / individual themself
07Method of Obtaining Status
Source catalog's working classification:Adjustment of status or creation of an LPR record
08Conditional Resident Status and Permanent Nature of Residence
Unsubstantiated / Pending Review：The source catalog does not specify conditional resident status for each entry.
Residence category (working classification):Permanent resident
09Principal Applicant / Derivative Relationship
This edition includes no documented code relationships; none are inferred from code prefixes or suffixes.
04Time Period and Evidentiary Limits on “Whether It Can Still Be Newly Obtained Today”
Time-period notation:In use at the time of the USCIS AFM historical snapshot; status as of 2026 pending verification
Verification of a Newly Added Pathway:Status not verified
This site has not yet verified through official materials whether this pathway is currently available; the existence of a code is not used to presume that it is open or closed.
Status recorded at the time of the original snapshot (not a conclusion about current status)
- In use at the time of the AFM historical snapshot; status as of 2026 remains to be verified
Fields that were unverified at the time of the original snapshot remain unchanged. See the newly added pathway verification for current status; other fields are not thereby elevated to verified status.
03Official English and Chinese Working Translation
Employee of U.S. Mission in Hong Kong (limit of 500 and these persons are admitted exempt from the country limitation) .
Chinese: A Chinese rendering of the original meaning is not yet available (the source directory contains only a classification template, which is not displayed as a translated name)
10Same-Code / Cross-Era Notice
The source does not flag any risk of cross-era confusion.
The same code may have different meanings in different eras. The source and era are preserved for each entry below; entries are not merged across eras, nor does their inclusion indicate current validity.
- SEKIn use at the time of the USCIS AFM historical snapshot; status as of 2026 pending verificationAFM-CURRENT-0313-SEK
Employee of U.S. Mission in Hong Kong (limit of 500 and these persons are admitted exempt from the country limitation) .
- Official Grouping
- AFM archived then-current LPR
- Legal Authority (Unverified)
- Sec. 152 of PL 101-649 (Nov. 29, 1990)
Original Snapshot Notes (Not Current Status)
Not found in the OHSS 414 or 22 CFR 42.11 baseline; must be retained as a historical definition
11General Limitations for Existing Holders
- Discontinuation of a code does not automatically revoke LPR status previously lawfully obtained; an individual's status still depends on subsequent facts.
This page compiles code reference materials. It does not constitute legal advice or determine any individual's current immigration status.
01Code and Original Source Notation
Normalized code:SEK
The source contains no other notation differing from the normalized code.
12Sources, Dates, and Review Status (Entry by Entry)
AFM-CURRENT-0313-SEK
USCIS AFM Historical Snapshot—LPR Codes in Use at That Time · PDF p.166 (afm23-external.pdf, 229 pages total, ModDate 2024-11-19; Appendix 23-7, Section 1)
Original snapshot review status:Official historical table entered; status as of 2026 and the Chinese still require manual review(As recorded at the time; for current status, see the newly added pathway verification below)
- ✓ Original English text：Verified as matching the official English original
- · Chinese name：Chinese paraphrase of the original meaning not yet available (classification template only)
- · Legal Authority：No official basis found during this review (field retained, unverified)
- · Status in the original snapshot：Current availability was not officially confirmed in the original snapshot only; see the added pathway verification for current status.
- · Applicant Role：Roles not verified individually
- ✓ Method of Obtaining Status：Method of obtaining status supported by an official label
- · Status category：Listed in the official LPR code table (conditional status not separately verified)
Verification of a Newly Added Pathway:Status not verified
This site has not yet verified through official materials whether this pathway is currently available; the existence of a code is not used to presume that it is open or closed.
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