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Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Population Research Volume 2011, Article ID 873967, 7 pages doi:10.1155/2011/873967 Research Article A Theoretical Note on the Relationship between Documented and Undocumented Migration Peter V. Schaeffer1, 2 and Mulugeta S. Kahsai2 1 Division of Resource Management, West Virginia University, P.O. Box 6201, Morgantown, WV 26506-6201, USA 2 Regional Research Institute, West Virginia University, P.O. Box 6825, Morgantown, WV 26506-6825, USA Correspondence should be addressed to Peter V. Schaeffer, peter.schaeffer@ Received 9 March 2011; Accepted 18 June 2011 Academic Editor: Rebeca Raijman Copyright © 2011 P. V. Schaeffer and M. S. Kahsai. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Undocumented migration is a (inferior) substitute to documented migration. Hence, policies affecting documented migration also affect undocumented migration. This paper explores this relationship from a theoretical perspective. The implications of this exploration are that lax enforcement of visa rules and national borders, combined with a very long waiting line (small annual quotas) for immigrant visas, can make illegal immigration a preferred option over legal immigration or, more generally, that for policy purposes all types of migrations should be regarded as interdependent. Therefore, policies aimed solely at, say, undocu- mented immigration will generally be less effective than an integrated policy approach. 1. Introduction without permission or by ignoring the conditions of a visa to