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Inside Immigration

Plain-language guides to US immigration, asylum and USCIS procedure.

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Write a few sentences: your nationality, where you are and on what status, what you want to do here, who you are related to, your work and education, and anything that complicates it. The finder reads all 91 classifications and statuses, names the two to four routes worth examining, and points to an attorney who handles them.

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91 classifications

Nonimmigrant visas

62

Temporary stays: visitors, students, workers, exchange, diplomats, and the statuses that are not visas at all.

Diplomatic

Visitor

Transit

Crew

Not a visa

Treaty trader and investor

Student

International organization

Temporary worker

Media

Exchange visitor

Fiancé and spouse

Intracompany transferee

Vocational student

NATO

Extraordinary ability

Athlete and entertainer

Cultural exchange

Religious worker

Informant

Trafficking victim

USMCA professional

Crime victim

Family unity

Immigrant visas and green cards

20

Permanent residence through family, employment, investment, the lottery, or special immigrant categories.

Mechanism

Diversity

Employment preference

Special immigrant

Investor

Family preference

Immediate relative

Protection and humanitarian status

7

Asylum, refugee status, TPS, and the remedies available to people already in proceedings.

Protection

Court remedy

Special immigrant

Mechanisms

2

Adjustment of status and naturalization: the steps that turn one status into the next.

Mechanism