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How EB-5 Green Cards Gave My Family Stability and New Opportunities—Felix from India (Part 2)

When my family and I first came to the United States, we did not necessarily expect to stay permanently. I moved from Canada to the United States in 2017, and my family joined me i...

How an immigration officer decides whether your family tree proves you’re a Canadian citizen by descent

If your claim to Canadian citizenship runs through a grandparent, great-grandparent, or older relative, an immigration officer has to follow it one generation at a time. For each p...

How Immigration Attorneys Help Families Navigate Complex Cases

Every year, thousands of families in Illinois face a maze of paperwork, deadlines, and life-changing decisions tied to their immigration status. Illinois is home to nearly 1.99 mil...

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...

Some Americans are applying for Canadian citizenship certificates for their adult kids

Michael had known for a while that his daughter wanted to move out of the country. Mina was 27 years old, worked as a data analyst in a district outside Detroit, and had spent most...

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...

How Minors Derive Citizenship Through Their Parents

The recent news about Rep. Ilhan Omar has focused attention on how an erstwhile alien minor with a green card would have automatically derived citizenship based on the naturalizati...

The FOI Files: How laws on family reunification were tweaked to make them more difficult to waive

Records from the Department of Justice show how they made it harder for immigration officials to waive the rules in exceptional humanitarian circumstances.

UPDATED- What's in Sweden's new law on family reunification?

UPDATED- What's in Sweden's new law on family reunification?

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...

Having a Canadian ancestor is just the start: Five questions a lawyer will ask about your family line

You just found out you’re likely a Canadian citizen by descent, through a parent, grandparent, or an ancestor further back. Many people in this position turn to a licensed immigrat...

What Families Raising Children in America Need to Have in Place Before It Gets Complicated

Raising children in the United States while holding temporary immigration status means making decisions that other parents simply do not have to think about. Every major family cho...

New Zealand Introduces New Parent Resident Visa Selection System for Families. Check Your Eligibility!

New Zealand Introduces New Parent Resident Visa Selection System for Families. Check Your Eligibility! HIGHLIGHTS: NEW ZEALAND BRINGS MAJOR CHANGES TO PARENT RESIDENT VISA SELECTIO...

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...

How a relative’s succsesful Canadian citizenship by descent application can unlock your whole family’s claims

A relative who shares your Canadian ancestry and has confirmed their citizenship through a successful citizenship by descent application can give your own citizenship by descent ap...

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.

Becerra's 'son of immigrants' story emerges as latest flash point in governor's race

Democrat Xavier Becerra, the frontrunner to become the state's next governor, often invokes the story of his parents' humble beginnings as immigrants from Mexico who, through hard...

The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952

I was reading the London Review of Books and came across this article by Jameel Jaffer stating that, in 1952, Congress overrode the presidential veto and passed the McCarran-Walter...

One H-1B Layoff Could Cost a Family Two Incomes and Their Right to Stay in America

For couples who have built their lives in America around two careers and two paychecks, losing one spouse’s ability to work could force a sudden rewrite of the family budget. That...

Canada is updating its immigration system. But for Americans with Canadian ancestry, citizenship has never been more dir...

On October 16, Canada announced major upcoming changes to Express Entry, the online system it uses to select skilled workers for permanent residence. For Americans who have ever we...

A painful truth about post-Brexit immigration | Letters

While the media rightly highlights the harsh treatment of UK citizens abroad, the UK Home Office is quietly inflicting similar cruelty, says Vera-Lynn WatsonYour report (Wife of Br...

Republican who backs Trump’s immigration crackdown begs for his relative to not be deported

Former Maine Governor Paul LePage says his son’s father-in-law holds a valid work authorization permit and resides in the US legally