Rachel Browning’s Legal Blog

This week I thought I would start a kind of “series” of blogs on some of the lesser-known visas – both immigrant (permanent) and nonimmigrant (temporary) – that are available to foreign nationals coming to the U.S. and to U.S. companies and organizations seeking to employ them.
While most individuals applying for permanent residency do so [...]

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             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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The EB-1 “Outstanding Professor or Researcher” category is available to professors and researchers who are recognized internationally as being outstanding in a specific academic area, with an established, peer recognized research record.
To be eligible, the alien must have:

An offer of employment for a tenured or tenure-track position or a comparable “permanent” research position. The U.S. [...]

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USCIS announced yesterday guidelines establishing a new special immigrant visa category for certain Iraqi nationals who worked for, or were contractors of the United States government in Iraq for at least one year after March 20, 2003.  Section 1244 of the Defense Authorization Act (DAA) provides for 5,000 special immigrant visas for Iraqi employees and [...]

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O-1 classification applies to persons possessing “extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics, or extraordinary achievements in the motion picture and television field.”  To obtain an O-1 visa, applicants must demonstrate that they possess “a level of expertise indicating that the person is one of a small percentage who has risen to [...]

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