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What Is A Green Card and How Do I Get One?
Green card is the term used to describe a document that gives a person born in another country the right to live and work in the United States. A green card is usually issued to those people who are permanent resident aliens and who wish to eventually become a United States citizen.

Travel And Work Permits: Other Important Documents To Get While Applying For Your Green Card
While applying for your adjustment of status, it makes sense to apply for two other INS documents:

Green Card Blues: New Rules Would Require Many Green Card Holders to Renew Their Cards, According to American Citizens Abroad (ACA)
The US Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) has just published a proposed new requirement for the renewal of Green Cards in the Federal Register of August 22, 2007. The new rules will require holders of a green card which has no expiration date, to apply within a four-month period for a new card with an expiration date, with filing costs of close to $400. American Citizens Abroad, a citizens advocacy organization, (www.aca.ch) considers that this could be a major headache for many foreign executives employed by American corporations who spend periods of time living and working in the United States, or just frequently visiting the United States. It can a...

Canadian Citizenship Exam
A condition of acquiring Canadian citizenship is passing the Canadian citizenship exam. All citizenship applicants between the ages of 18 and 54 must write and pass the Canadian citizenship exam in order to become a Canadian citizen. The citizenship test will measure your comprehension of English or French but it will also measure your understanding of Canada. The exam contains questions regarding Canada?s social, economic, and political structure.

Tips For Finding A U.S. Immigration Attorney
Each year, millions of individuals want to migrate to the U.S. They are admitted into the United States because mainly of their legal preferences, individual qualifications and absolute determination in working through with the U.S. Immigration law requirements.

American Citizenship
Can We Pass The Test?American CitizenshipI'm the daughter of an American soldier and with that comes pride of my American heritage, and love and pride for our country. I have thought of myself as being a patriot, which I am.

Immigration Law - What To Do With Our Parents?
Commonly there is an expectation amongst parents of children in close knit families, particularly when a family is of humble means, that the children will grow up, gain a good education and be successful. Taking this one step further those parents of Australian citizens or Australian permanent residents expect to be able to join their children in Australia as permanent residence and eventually as Australian citizens.

Chambers USA 2008 Ranks Charles Kuck as #1 Immigration Attorney in GA and Kuck Casablanca & Odom, LLC as #2 Immigration Law Firm in GA
Charles Kuck, Managing Partner of premier multi-state Immigration Law Firm, Kuck Casablanca & Odom, LLC, was recently named the number one Immigration Attorney in the state of Georgia by the 2008 publication of Chambers USA. Furthermore, the firm itself, Kuck Casablanca & Odom, LLC, was honored as the number two Immigration Law Firm in Georgia.

Immigration Law Experts Providing Information on New Bills in 2008
ImmigrationLawHelp.info, a Web site that offers information about legal immigration, is providing facts and advice about the plethora of immigration bills proposed this year.

Entering the Green Card Lottery
So many people around the world want to live and work in the United States of America, and have the rights and privileges ? and responsibilities ? of a US citizen. The culture of freedom and opportunity, along with the USA?s excellent record on human rights means that many people are queuing up to get their Green Card.

The Green Card Interview At the INS
Before your wife is issued a Green Card or given permanent residency, you both will have to attend a Green Card interview by an INS officer.

State Citizenship Is Alive And Well
Did the 14th Amendment do away with State Citizenship?"The Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, ratified in 1868, creates or at least recognizes for the first time a citizenship of the United States, as distinct from that of the states." Black's Law Dictionary, 5th Edition, p.

Marriage and U.S. Citizenship
An extremely common practice in the USA is for an American citizen (or legal permanent resident) to have a spouse who is a foreign national. When this happens, the citizen most often desires that their spouse shares in the same opportunities and privileges they have as an American citizen.

Green Card Lottery Visa
A Green Card Lottery Visa. Boy, what a mouthful! Yet, when you pick it apart and get down to the details, it is really a very simple program. Every year, the United States allows a certain number of people to (legally) enter the country. Each is issued a visa to do so, the so called ?Green Card.? Well, each year, the U.S. Government sets aside between 50,000 to 55,000 of those visas to give out via a lottery held in October.

Music & Citizenship: Can Playing a Musical Instrument Help Your Child Become a Better Citizen?
Disregard the popular image of rappers with their ghetto blasters, terrorizing neighborhoods with eardrum-splitting cacophony. Consider instead our delightful school bands and orchestras.