Immigration Newsletters

Asylum - Request During Removal Proceedings

Asylum -- Request during removal proceedings

Controlling Alien Admission - Alien Employment - Employment Verification - Who Is Authorized to Accept Employment?

Generally speaking, three classes of aliens are eligible to accept employment in the United States. While most aliens must have a document showing their eligibility to work in the U.S. (known as an employment authorization document or "EAD"), some do not. This article outlines the circumstances in which EADs are required.

Controlling Alien Admission-Immigrants - Administrative-Consul Consideration of Visa Applications and Refusals of Visas

United States immigration law grants consular officers exclusive authority to consider immigrant visa applications. No formal hearing is required, and most of the procedures are determined by individual U.S. consulates and embassies. For instance, consulate procedure dictates both how the immigrant interview proceeds and whether an attorney or other representative will be allowed to attend the interview.

Loss of Citizenship for U.S. Born Citizens

This article focuses on the loss of citizenship, which is also referred to as "denaturalization" when the loss is of a naturalized citizenship. For citizens born in the United States, the only ways that citizenship can be lost are through an affirmative action on the part of the citizen to renounce his or her citizenship or through the committing of several actions listed in § 349 of the Immigration and Naturalization Act (INA). U.S. citizens who lose their citizenship are said to be "expatriated."

Nonimmigrants - Visa Types - Business or Pleasure Visitors - Who From Canada And Mexico Needs A Visa?

Generally speaking, travelers visiting the United States temporarily must obtain visas unless they are citizens of countries that participate in the Visa Waiver Program (VWP) and are eligible to participate in that program. Travelers under the VWP must not plan to stay in the U.S. for more than 90 days, must be traveling for business or pleasure, and must meet certain basic criteria.