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Intergenerational mobility of immigrants in 15 destination countries

We estimate intergenerational mobility of children of immigrants in fifteen receiving countries. Children of immigrants have somewhat lower income than children of local-born paren...

Adding a Spouse or Child to a Principal Applicant’s Green Card Process

When an individual applies for lawful permanent resident (LPR) status (commonly, a green card) in the United States, certain family members also may qualify for LPR status as deriv...

Canada Suspends Parent and Grandparent Immigration Applications Until Further Notice

Canada’s federal government announced this week that it will no longer accept new applications this year under the Parents and Grandparents Program, which allows Canadian citizens...

BECOMING US

Long before newcomers began arriving at Ellis Island, Indigenous peoples had already lived on this land for thousands of years, but the first permanent Spanish colony in the mid-15...

Many of your family members may qualify for Canadian citizenship by descent. But applying together carries a lesser-know...

You just realized that you’re not the only person in your family eligible for Canadian citizenship by descent. Your Canadian citizen claim comes through a grandparent. That, by def...

How Family Members Benefit From an EB-5 Investment

The EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program requires one qualifying investment and one petition. That single application, however, can cover not just the investor but also their spouse and...

“We’re all immigrants”: 30 years helping immigrant families find their place in America

John Stahl has spent three decades at the Emerald Isle Immigration Center guiding families through America's ever-shifting immigration rules, even when the news isn't what they wan...

More families are checking citizenship requirements before making long-term plans

Citizenship requirements are drawing fresh attention from families planning ahead. Learn what applicants are researching now.

Colavecchio & Colavecchio Law Guides Families Through New Nashville Immigration Enforcement Changes

Govt moves to increase income limits for family reunification

The four-party alliance government led by the Kansallinen Kokoomus (National Coalition Party-NCP) has taken an initiative to tighten the family reunification for the immigrants inc...

Court of Appeal considers what counts as facilitation under the Withdrawal Agreement (again)

Confusion at the UK border has been put under the spotlight again in the context of what constitutes the ‘facilitation’ of an extended family member’s UK entry and residence. Exten...

The life-altering choices immigrant families are making under Trump’s crackdown

By Maria Santana, CNN (CNN) — A quiet upheaval is unfolding in homes, schools, churches and workplaces across the United States, as families try to prepare for –– or avoid –– an en...

Generations of Mexican families may already be Canadian, and eligible for Canadian passports

On the morning of March 1, 1922, a chartered train pulled out of Plum Coulee, Manitoba. Its cars held families, furniture, horses and plows. Six days and 3,000 kilometres later, it...

Court of Appeal reiterates restricted nature of Article 8 family life

In Entry Clearance Officer v BB & Ors [2026] EWCA Civ 973 the Court of Appeal reminds us — and, more to the point, the Upper Tribunal — of the restricted nature of family life...

Canada to stop accepting new Parents and Grandparents Program applications

Canada is pausing new applications for the Parents and Grandparents Program. Existing applications will be processed, and 15,000 people will be approved in 2026. Family reunificati...

Refugee families left in limbo as challenge to suspension of refugee family reunion route is dismissed

The challenge to the suspension of the refugee family reunion route, brought by Safe Passage International and three individual claimants (AXY, BSZ and ESH), was dismissed by the H...

These are the relatives who can support your citizenship by descent claim, and the ones who cannot

Marc Thibault thought his family was Canadian for as long as he could remember. He grew up in Maine, spent three decades in Nashville, and carried a surname that came from somewher...

The path to America is narrowing. Here’s what that means for legal immigrants

US green card interviews are on hold worldwide, student and work visas are subject to new restrictions, and citizenship is under fresh scrutiny. Here’s what the latest US immigrati...

Moving to France half the time

Great grandparents doesn’t qualify. That would probably open it up to every Irish descendent in the USA and probably half of the people in Boston, if it did.

Good news for family-based Green Card applicants from India in Visa Bulletin September 2026, no relief for employment-ba...

Huge increase in US residents applying for Irish Foreign Birth Registration

For many people born outside Ireland, getting on the Foreign Births Register is the first step to obtaining an Irish passport.

A Canadian grandparent isn’t enough for a successful citizenship by descent application. You need the chain linking you...

Since the passing of Bill C-3 on December 15, 2025, the first-generation limit on Canadian citizenship by descent has been removed for those born before that date. This means that...

Navy sailor on USS Lincoln says dad was arrested by immigration officials

Historically rare, immigration arrests of military spouses and parents have become more common under the second Trump administration.

End of immigration program forces difficult choices for Vermont residents