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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            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 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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