Foreign students who are attending a U.S. college on a student visa can have concerns about their future in the country when graduation time comes around. The authorization to be in the U.S. that student visas, such as F-1 visas, grant generally gives out soon after a...
One of the ways a person can end up getting a U.S. green card is through the diversity lottery. This lottery is part of the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program. Under this program, up to 50,000 immigrant visas (visas connected to the permanent residency process) a year...
Among the things individuals from other countries sometimes invest in are businesses here in America. Individuals who have made such an investment sometimes wish to spend time in the U.S. to help develop the business they have invested in. One option such individuals...
For over 200 years, naturalization has been regulated by federal law here in America. Of course, what U.S naturalization regulation looks like has shifted significantly over the course of these two-plus centuries. This can be seen in a recent Public Radio...
Each of the five main U.S. employment-based immigrant visa classes (permanent resident visa classes) covers a very different group of workers/immigrants. The EB-4 class is the class for "special immigrants." This class is somewhat unique among the employment-based...
There are many different business reasons that could lead a foreign businessperson to want to temporarily come into the United States. When a foreign businessperson wants temporary admittance into the U.S. in order to engage in business activities, one of the...
Having a U.S. green card allows a person to live in the United States. Being granted such permanent resident status also gives a person a range of other rights, as we noted in a prior post. These rights are something an immigrant may cherish greatly and have worked...
As we talked about in a previous post, there are some exceptions under which a foreign worker seeking an employment-based U.S permanent residency status that generally requires a labor certification does not need such a certification to be granted permanent resident...
Here in the U.S., both individuals who are in the country on permanent resident status and U.S. citizens generally can apply for permanent resident status for a spouse who lives in another country. However, this does not mean that it is irrelevant whether a petitioner...
E-1 status is a nonimmigrant status here in the U.S. that qualifying treaty traders can be granted. However, treaty traders are not the only ones who can qualify for E-1 classification. So too can certain employees of such traders. Now, in order for a person employed...