The application process for EADs and US citizenship is the same. Note that in 2010 USCIS began issuing a similarly redesigned Permanent Resident Card (green card). Again, previously issued cards remain valid until their expiration dates. ...more »
An employer wishing to utilize an employee's foreign background to their business' advantage must take steps to minimize negative impacts on their employee's green-card status and/or naturalization eligibility. The employee's family may also be ...more »
The services and enforcement duties of the former INS were divided into separate agencies, Citizenship and Immigration Services, the agency now responsible for processing immigration applications for green cards and naturalization, and Immigration and ...more »
They were admitted as permanent residents -- commonly referred to as "green card holders.'' His mother soon became a naturalized American citizen and Clarke, still a minor, derived his citizenship from her under then-existing immigration law. ...more »
I have seen DHS initiate the process of rescinding the green card when the authorities learn that the beneficiary never worked for the employer after the green card application was approved. Things could start unraveling at the naturalization process ...more »
At each Family Justice Center, the city currently funds attorneys to assist immigrant victims of domestic violence in obtaining available Federal immigration remedies, including Violence Against Women Act Self-Petitions; Battered Spouse Waivers; ...more »
The Office of US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has a long list of requirements before one can even apply for naturalization. According to the USCIS website, the list requires one to hold a green card that signifies permanent residence ...more »
13 NAU cross country team travels to Terre Haute, Ind., for the NCAA National Championships, Estrada will travel to Phoenix to participate in a Naturalization Ceremony at the Sandra Day O'Connor Courthouse, exchanging his green card for citizenship. ...more »
My odyssey from "alien" to "natural" started in 2005, when I married my boyfriend David (an American) and filed for permanent residency (a "green card") with the USCIS. According to law, issuing a green card doesn't have a strict timeline but should be ...more »
To become a new citizen, an applicant must hold a permanent resident green card for at least five years and apply for naturalization. When Leslie Ben, 23, and a recent graduate of State University of New York at Stony Brook, moved from People's ...more »
13 NAU cross country team travels to Terre Haute, Ind. for the NCAA National Championships, Estrada will travel to Phoenix to participate in a Naturalization Ceremony at Sandra Day O'Connor Courthouse, exchanging his green card for citizenship. ...more »
He threatened to “ship” me back and revoke his application for my green card. How can I go back? In my community the woman is the one who always being blamed...” These are the words of an abused immigrant woman who came to US on a Fiancé visa. ...more »
“New Jersey has 400000 green card holders — well, it has 34 less after today — but we want to extend the resources of Rutgers to help those people move into citizenship and assume those rights and responsibilities,” said Anastasia Mann, ...more »
The volunteer immigration lawyers and advocates represented several law firms in Missouri, Kansas and Arkansas. The McCummen Immigration Law Group is now making appointments for meetings in Springfield on Dec. 16 or later weekends. ...more »
