Definitions

In this chapter: The term “abuse or threatened abuse of the legal process” means the use or threatened use of a law or legal process, whether administrative, civil, or criminal, in any manner or for any purpose for which the law was not designed, in order to exert pressure on another person to cause that person to take some action or refrain from taking some action. The term “appropriate congressional committees” means the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives. The term “coercion” means— The term “commercial sex act” means any sex act on account of which anything of value is given to or received by any person. The term “concrete actions” means actions that demonstrate increased efforts by the government of a country to meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking, including any of the following: The term “credible information” includes all of the following: Documentation provided by a foreign country, including— The term “debt bondage” means the status or condition of a debtor arising from a pledge by the debtor of his or her personal services or of those of a person under his or her control as a security for debt, if the value of those services as reasonably assessed is not applied toward the liquidation of the debt or the length and nature of those services are not respectively limited and defined. The term “involuntary servitude” includes a condition of servitude induced by means of— The term “minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking” means the standards set forth in section 7106 of this title. The term “nonhumanitarian, nontrade-related foreign assistance” means— any assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 [22 U.S.C. 2151 et seq.], other than— The term “severe forms of trafficking in persons” means— The term “sex trafficking” means the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining, patronizing, or soliciting of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act. The term “State” means each of the several States of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and territories and possessions of the United States. The term “Task Force” means the Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking established under section 7103 of this title. The term “United States” means the fifty States of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the territories and possessions of the United States. The term “victim of a severe form of trafficking” means a person subject to an act or practice described in paragraph (11). The term “victim of trafficking” means a person subjected to an act or practice described in paragraph (11) or (12). The term “grounds related to human trafficking” means grounds related to the criteria for inadmissibility to the United States described in subsection (a)(2)(H) of section 1182 of title 8.