Long Beach, CA
Immigration Lawyer at Long Beach, CA
Practice Areas: Immigration, Asylum
The EB-5 Investment Visa is for the true entrepenuer. Yes it takes a significant amount of money, namely $1,000,000 unless you are investing in a a Regional Center in which case it is only $500,000...
See Full GuideThe new INA 320 is silent as to legitimation.Nevertheless, the regulations interpreting INA 320 specify that a child born out-of-wedlock must be legitimated by and residing with the U.S. citizen ...
See Full GuideOn October 30, 2000, President Clinton signed into law the Child Citizenship Act of 2000. The amendments to nationality law took effect on February 27, 2001.This law radically changed the provi...
See Full GuideNaturalization is the process whereby people who have had their Green Cards for a certain period of time can apply to become United States Citizens. Becoming a United States Citizen gives you many ...
See Full GuideDerivation of Citizenship is when somebody is a U.S. Citizen (even though they might not know it) due to actions their parents and/or grandparents have taken. In addition to acquiring United States c...
See Full GuideDerivative citizenship is a form of naturalization that occurs automatically. Children who become citizens under these provisions do not need to meet any of the substantive requirements of natura...
See Full GuideDerivative citizenship statutes go back to the beginning of the U.S. (although it has and continues to change. During the second session of the first Congress, the first act to establish a unifor...
See Full GuideFor purposes of derivative citizenship, children born out-of-wedlock to a naturalized mother were treated as if both parents had naturalized. The only exception was for children whose mothers ...
See Full GuideBefore 1978, adopted children could not derive citizenship at the time of their adoptive parent's naturalization. They could, before and after 1978, derive naturalization upon the naturalization of t...
See Full GuideA legitimated child is, therefore, the biological offspring of unmarried parents, who, by some act, has been placed in the same legal position the child would have been in if his or her parents had bee...
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