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O-1 Visas in the Arts are for visual and performing artists, designers and writers and often for the professionals in those fields as well. Curators, producers, critics, and others are often covered by O-1s in the arts, too. If you are thinking this might be a good option for you, and want to consult a lawyer about the process, you will benefit most by first considering the following points and the evidence that will help prove your achievements and future engagements. Futu

Image Credits: Vasily Koloda International Students graduating from US Universities are often granted an additional stay in the United States after they receive their degree called “Optional Practical Training” or “OPT”. Generally, OPT stays are limited to a year, although in STEM fields, they can be extended for another two years. This blog post will address the question we often hear from students enrolled in arts programs in the United States: What should I do during my s

Foreigners married to US Citizens can apply for a green card.

The U.S. economy turns on constant inflows of new investment – including, and especially, non-U.S. investment. Subject to a number of caveats, the U.S. offers visas to foreign investors (and their same-country designees) who invest a substantial, controlling investment in a commercially-viable U.S. company. The visa is called an E-2 Investor Visa and it is based on the existence of a commerce and navigation treaty between your home country and the U.S. Let us assume that: Y

Now that you have your green card, there are some important facts to keep in mind so you are never at risk of losing it.

As we live in an era in which governments, out of fear, ignorance, or penury, seek to restrict funding for the arts, seek to thwart artistic expression, and seek to place barriers to the free interchange of international artistic creativity, a decent respect for world opinion (and for the arts themselves) requires that we should declare our fervent support for the arts and for its creators, whether they are born in the United States or otherwise. We, immigration lawyers base

Photo by Filip Mroz ( Unsplash.com ) [ID: Digital photograph of woman kayaking.] We continue with our series of newsletters on the search for immigration security at a time of American turmoil. While everyone has heard of green cards being issued to Oscar-winning actors, or scientists creating revolutionary medical treatments, or executives transferred within huge multinational corporate groups, there is another path to an employment based green card designed for the rest of

As the United States faces a dual crisis: COVID-19, a new crisis, and institutionalized violence against people of color, a crisis as old...