Also known as USCIS, it is a bureau of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and is responsible for managing immigration applications, work permits, citizenship and the issuance of green cards. … [Read more...] about UNITED STATES CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION SERVICES
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UNION CONTRACT
A collective bargaining agreement used in the context of labor agreements. … [Read more...] about UNION CONTRACT
UNITED STATES CODE OR USC
The collection of federal legislation of the US which has been codified and known as the USC. … [Read more...] about UNITED STATES CODE OR USC
UNIFORMITY
In taxation. Uniformity in taxation implies equality in the burden of taxation, which cannot exist without uniformity in the mode of assessment, as well as in the rate of taxation. Further, the uniformity must be coextensive with the territory to which it applies. And it must be extended to all property subject to taxation, so that all property may be taxed alike and equally. … [Read more...] about UNIFORMITY
UNION OF CHURCHES
A combining and consolidating of two churches into one. Also it is when one church is made subject, to another, and one man is rector of both; and where a conventual church is made a cathedral. Tomlins. … [Read more...] about UNION OF CHURCHES
