Table 10.

Logit Estimates of Venue and Adjustee Effects on Documents Lost During the Visa Process, by Sex: NIS-2003 Cohort

Regressor	Men			Women
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(1)	(2)	(3)
A. Which processing venue has the higher probability of lost documents?
INS/CIS only	1.301	1.150	1.480	1.906	1.707	1.309
Both State and INS/CIS	.905	.865	1.096	1.584	1.523	1.150
Joint test chi2 (2 df)	21.52***	13.73***	14 95***	19.05***	12.72**	6.42*
Illegal experience	NS	.277 (1.46)	.302 (1.43)	NS	.303 (1.50)	.571** (2.74)
B. Do new arrivals or adjustees face the higher probability of lost documents?
Adjustee	.550 (2.59)**	.319 (1.36)	.307 (1.18)	.645 (3.10)**	.471 (2.05)*	.517 (2.17)*
Spouse of NB citizen	.754	.750	.950	.275	−.410	−.313
Spouse of FB citizen	1.115	1.122	1.500	.525	−.144	.227
Parent of US citizen	.433	.453	.735	−.340	−1.018	−.777
Child of US citizen	.774	.790	.853	.625	−.0669	−.0585
Adult single child of U.S. citizen	1.075	1.088	1.175	.522	−.166	.00255
Married child of US cit	1.280	1.311	1.217	---	−.692	−.581
Sibling of US cit	.855	.890	1.358	−.513	−1.186	−.653
Spouse of LPR	---	---	---	.264	−.480	−.174
Child of LPR	.666	.702	.812	.694	---	---
Employment	.710	.891	1.250	.818	.195	.278
Diversity	−.0575	.0228	.0175	−.440	−1.093	−.420
Refugee/asylee/parolee	.666	.749	.811	.00162	−.629	−.249
Legalization	.103	−.0107	.657	−.102	−.887	−.334
Joint test chi2 (12 df)	19.20	20.56	15.42	29.82**	31.47**	16.86
Illegal experience	NS	.431* (2.15)	.360 (1.55)	NS	.309 (1.54)	.408 (1.78)
Number of observations	1853	1853	1597	1930	1930	1692

Notes: NS = not in specification. Specifications (1) and (2) are binary logit, with robust standard errors. Specifications (3) are fixed effects logit, with fixed effects for the full set of countries. Absolute values of asymptotic t-ratio appear in parentheses under parameter estimates for numeric and binary variables. Joint tests reported for multiple-category categorical variables.

^*p < .05,

^**p < 0.1,

^***p <. 001

two-tailed tests for single coefficients, one-tailed for joint tests