Rachel Browning’s Legal Blog

             The Child Citizenship Act of 2000 (the “Act”) allows certain foreign-born, biological and adopted children of U.S. citizens to acquire U.S. citizenship automatically. These children do not acquire U.S. citizenship at birth, but are rather, granted citizenship when they enter the United States as lawful permanent residents (LPRs).  To qualify under the terms of [...]

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       Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan of the Republic of Korea recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding on a new exchange visitor program called WEST (Work, English Study, and Travel). The WEST program will allow up to 5,000 qualifying university students and recent university graduates from the Republic of Korea [...]

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As a follow-up to my previous posting on the issue of “substantiality” with E-2 investments, I thought I’d talk a little about business plans – what applicants need them, why they’re needed, and what they should include.  To recap, an E-2 visa is available to foreign nationals from countries with which the U.S. has an [...]

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            As I stated in yesterday’s blog, the USCIS has recently updated its civics and history test that applicants for naturalization are required to pass before becoming U.S. Citizens.  I often encourage permanent residents to begin the process of filing for naturalization as soon as they are eligible, because while the distinction between permanent residency [...]

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            The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently completed a multi-year revamping of its naturalization test. Passing the naturalization test is one of several requirements an individual must fulfill in order to become a naturalized citizen.  The revised test has a stronger emphasis on the fundamental concepts of American democracy and is meant [...]

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