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 Department of Labor (DOL), Board of Alien Labor Certification Appeals (BALCA), issued a potentially far-reaching decision recently regarding the affirmative processes in which an employer must engage to evaluate potential U.S. workers applying for the job it seeks to offer a foreign worker.
The labor certification process is the first of a series of steps [...]

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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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To those of you who have been paying attention to the election coverage (and how could you avoid it really), you’ve probably noticed the predominant focus of news commentators on each candidate’s character – from how “patriotic” Obama is, to whether or not McCain is “conservative” enough to Republicans or whether his service record makes [...]

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