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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An E-2 Visa is a temporary nonimmigrant visa that allows a national from a country that has a qualifying treaty of commerce with the United States to come to the U.S. and invest a substantial amount of capital either in a new or existing enterprise.  The attorneys at Smith & Garg have assisted foreign nationals [...]

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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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Before I became a lawyer I was a professional musician for about 10 years.  I began my musical training at a very young age and pursued music as a major at the university level, graduating from the Eastman School of Music in 1995.  I focused on classical music (clarinet) and so during the course of [...]

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There has been much discussion over the past several years of certain Supreme Court Justices references to international law in their decisions and whether or not such practice is justifiable, legal or even necessary when interpreting the U.S. Constitution.  This week the high court handed down several important decisions, and international law was invoked, but [...]

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