Rachel Browning’s Legal Blog

The U.S. State Department has created a new social networking site called “Exchanges Connect,” a forum meant to promote international exchanges between students and young professionals in the U.S. and abroad. The site is administered by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and includes blog postings, chat rooms, discussion forums, links to foreign exchange [...]

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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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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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