"Immigration law includes the national statutes, regulations, and legal precedents governing immigration into and deportation from a country."
This subfield deals with the legal framework governing the admission, status, and rights of immigrants and their journey to citizenship.
Immigration Law Overview: An introduction to the history, purpose, and scope of immigration law including the Immigration and Nationality Act and its amendments.
U.S. Visas: The various types of visas available to immigrants including temporary and permanent visas such as work, business, student, and family visas.
Immigration Process: The process of applying for immigration, including eligibility criteria, application forms, and required documents.
Refugee and Asylum Policies: Understanding refugee and asylum policies, including the definition of a refugee, the application process, and the effects of recent policy changes.
Naturalization and Citizenship: The process for becoming a U.S. citizen including eligibility criteria, application processes and requirements, and the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.
Enforcement and Deportation: An overview of the enforcement of immigration laws and policies, including detention, deportation proceedings, and legal challenges to deportation.
Immigration and Criminal Law: The intersection of immigration and criminal law, including potential criminal offenses that can impact an individual's immigration status.
Family-Based Immigration: Understanding family-based immigration policies, including eligibility criteria, application procedures, and the role of family in the immigration process.
Labor and Business Immigration: The process for obtaining visas for employment and business purposes, including eligibility criteria, application procedures, and the impact of current policy changes.
Immigration Policy: Overview of current policy debates, including discussions on enforcement, border security, refugees, and deferred action programs such as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).
Family-based immigration: This type of immigration policy allows U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents to sponsor family members for immigration to the United States.
Employment-based immigration: This type of immigration policy allows U.S. employers to sponsor foreign workers with specialized skills and experience to work in the United States.
Refugee and Asylum Law: This type of immigration policy provides legal protection for individuals who flee their home country due to persecution or fear of persecution.
Diversity Visa Program: This type of immigration policy provides an opportunity for individuals from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States to apply for permanent residency.
Temporary Protected Status: This type of immigration policy provides temporary legal status to individuals from countries that have undergone natural disasters, violence, or other extreme circumstances.
Citizenship and Naturalization Law: This type of immigration policy outlines the requirements for foreign nationals to become U.S. citizens.
Consular Processing: This type of immigration policy refers to the process of obtaining a visa or other immigration document through a U.S. embassy or consulate abroad.
Adjustment of Status: This type of immigration policy refers to the process of changing an individual's status from non-immigrant to permanent resident while they are already in the United States.
DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) and DAPA (Deferred Action for Parents of Americans) Law: This type of immigration policy provides temporary legal status to undocumented individuals who came to the United States as children or who are parents of American citizens.
Immigration Enforcement and Removal: This type of immigration policy outlines the process for deportation of individuals who are not legally authorized to be in the United States or who have committed certain crimes.
"Strictly speaking, it is distinct from other matters such as naturalization and citizenship, although they are sometimes conflated."
"Countries frequently maintain laws that regulate both the rights of entry and exit as well as internal rights, such as the duration of stay, freedom of movement, and the right to participate in commerce or government."
"Immigration law includes the national statutes, regulations, and legal precedents governing immigration into and deportation from a country."
"Although they are sometimes conflated."
"Internal rights, such as the duration of stay, freedom of movement, and the right to participate in commerce or government."
"Immigration law includes the national statutes, regulations, and legal precedents governing immigration into and deportation from a country."
"Statutes, regulations, and legal precedents."
"Countries frequently maintain laws that regulate both the rights of entry and exit."
"Governing immigration into and deportation from a country."
"...both the rights of entry and exit as well as internal rights..."
"Right to participate in commerce or government."
"...such as the duration of stay..."
"Freedom of movement."
"Legal precedents governing immigration into and deportation from a country."
"Distinct from other matters such as naturalization and citizenship..."
"Countries frequently maintain laws..."
"Right to participate in commerce or government."
"National statutes, regulations, and legal precedents..."
"Laws that regulate both the rights of entry and exit."