Immigration Law & Procedure

VOLUME 1
PART 1 OVERVIEW OF IMMIGRATION LAW
Chapter 1 General Scheme of Immigration Law
Chapter 2 The Development of the Immigration Laws
PART 2 INSTITUTIONS OF IMMIGRATION LAW
Chapter 3 Agencies, Records and Information, Fees and Forms
Chapter 4 Attorneys and Representatives/Fees/Ethics and Sanctions
Chapter 5 Voluntary Agencies
Chapter 6 Aliens? Rights, Privileges and Liabilities
Chapter 7 Sanctions, Discrimination and Employment Authorization
PART 3 THE PROCESS OF CONTROLLING ENTRY INTO THE UNITED STATES
Chapter 8 Overview of the Admission Process
Chapter 9 The Constitutional Foundations of Immigration Law
Chapter 10 Persons Subject to Restrictions
Chapter 11 Territorial Applicability of Restrictions
VOLUME 2
PART 4 NONIMMIGRANTS
Chapter 12 Nonimmigrants: Classification, Terms of Admission and Procedures
Chapter 13 Diplomats and Other Officials of Foreign Governments
Chapter 14 Temporary Visitors for Business or Pleasure
Chapter 15 Aliens in Transit Through the United States
Chapter 16 Crewmembers
Chapter 17 Treaty Traders and Treaty Investors
Chapter 18 Foreign Students (Fs and Ms)
Chapter 19 Noncitizens Identified with Certain International Organizations and Their Dependents
Chapter 20 Temporary Workers
Chapter 21 Representatives of Foreign Information Media
Chapter 22 Exchange Visitors (Js and Qs)
Chapter 23 Fiancées and Fiancés of U.S. Citizens
Chapter 24 Intracompany Transferees
Chapter 25 Nonimmigrants with Extraordinary Ability in Sciences, Arts, Education, Business, Athletics (O)/ Athletes and Entertainers (P)
Chapter 26 Nonimmigrant Religious Workers
Chapter 27 Noncitizens Who Assist with Law Enforcement and Anti-Terrorism Efforts
Chapter 28 T, U and V Nonimmigrants
Chapter 29 Choosing the Proper Nonimmigrant Classification
Chapter 30 [Reserved]
VOLUME 3
PART 5 IMMIGRANTS
Chapter 31 Immigrants: Overview of Classification, Restrictions, and Procedures for Admission
EXEMPT FROM NUMERICAL RESTRICTIONS
Chapter 32 [Reserved]
Chapter 33 Refugees, Asylum, Withholding of/Restriction on Removal, and Convention Against Torture Relief
Chapter 34 Procedures for Refugee Admission, Asylum, Withholding of/Restriction on Removal, and CAT Relief
Chapter 35 Special Immigrants
Chapter 36 Immediate Relatives
SUBJECT TO NUMERICAL RESTRICTIONS
Chapter 37 Overview of Restricted Categories
Chapter 38 Family-Sponsored Preferences
Chapter 39 Employment-Based (EB) Immigrants
Chapter 40 Diversity Immigrants
VOLUME 4
PROCEDURES FOR OBTAINING PERMANENT RESIDENCE
Chapter 41 Preliminary Visa Petition Requirements for Immediate Relatives and Family-Sponsored Preference Groups
Chapter 42 Conditional Residence for Certain Spouses and Children, and Other Limitations Imposed by 1986 Marriage Fraud Amendments
Chapter 43 Procedure for the Employment-Based Preferences: Job Offer and Labor Certification; Portability and Substitution; Petition Filing, Change of Petitioner or Documentation, Decision and Appeal; Validity of Petition, Revocation; Priority Dates
Chapter 44 Labor Certification for Certain Immigrants Coming to Perform Labor
Chapters 45—49 [Reserved]
FINAL STEPS TO RESIDENT STATUS
Chapter 50 Overview
Chapter 51 Adjustment of Status to Permanent Residence
Chapter 52 Legalization
Chapter 53 Farmworker Legalization
Chapter 54 Registry of Lawful Entry for Noncitizens with Long Residence in the United States
Chapter 55 Immigrant Visa Processing
Chapters 56—59 [Reserved]
VOLUME 5
PART 6 ADMISSION / PAROLE / REMOVAL
Chapter 60 [Reserved]
Chapter 61 Procedure at Border
Chapter 62 Parole
Chapter 63 Grounds of Exclusion/Inadmissibility; Waivers
Chapter 64 Removal of Noncitizens
Chapter 65 Exclusion Proceedings
Chapters 66—70 [Reserved] VOLUME 6
PART 7 DEPORTABILITY / DEPORTATION
Chapter 71 Grounds for Deportation
Chapter 72 Procedure in Deportation Cases
Chapter 73 [Reserved]
Chapter 74 Relief From Deportation
Chapters 75—90 [Reserved]
VOLUME 7
PART 8 NATIONALITY AND CITIZENSHIP
Chapter 91 Survey of Nationality and Citizenship
Chapter 92 Acquisition of Citizenship or Nationality by Birth in United States, Its Territories and Possessions
Chapter 93 Acquisition of American Citizenship or Nationality at Birth Outside the United States, Its Territories or Possessions
NATURALIZATION
Chapter 94 Overview of Naturalization
Chapter 95 Substantive Requirements for Naturalization
Chapter 96 Naturalization Procedure
Chapter 97 Naturalization of Special Classes
CITIZENSHIP
Chapter 98 Acquisition of American Citizenship After Birth Other than by Naturalization
Chapter 99 Evidence of American Citizenship
LOSS OF U.S. CITIZENSHIP OR NATIONALITY
Chapter 100 Loss of U.S. Citizenship or Nationality (Expatriation)
Chapter 101 Civil Liabilities and Criminal Offenses
Chapters 102—103[Reserved]
VOLUME 8
PART 9 JUDICIAL REVIEW
Chapter 104 Judicial Review
PART 10 MISCELLANEOUS
Chapter 105 Taxation
Chapter 106 International Medical Graduates
Chapter 107 [Reserved]
Chapter 108 Detention of Noncitizens
Chapter 109 Actions for Damages Against Government Officials
Chapter 110 [Reserved]
Chapter 111 Civil Liabilities and Criminal Offenses
Chapter 112 Class Actions
Chapter 113 Canadian Immigration Law ?Permanent Admission
Chapter 114 Temporary Workers in Canada
Chapters 115—120[Reserved]
VOLUME 9
Appendix A Official Forms
VOLUME 9A
Appendix B Exhibits
VOLUME 10
United Nations Documents and Treaties
Citizenship Laws of the World
Presidential Documents
VOLUME 11
Federal Register
VOLUME 12
Selected Statutes
VOLUME 13
Technical Assistance Guide
BALCA Deskbook
Department of Labor Manuals
VOLUME 14
INS Manuals
VOLUME 15
INS Examinations Handbook
VOLUME 16
INS Operations Instructions
VOLUME 17
Foreign Affairs Manual, Volume 7, Citizenship and Nationality
Foreign Affairs Manual, Volume 9, Visas
VOLUME 18
Foreign Affairs Manual, Volume 9, Visas (continued)
VOLUME 19
Foreign Affairs Manual, Volume 9, Documents
VOLUME STAR
Index
Table of Cases
Table of Statutes, Rules, and Regulations

Stanley Mailman

Stanley Mailman has been involved in Immigration practice throughout his professional career. He is a past president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and of the Consular Law Society, and a former member of the boards of the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights and the International Rescue Committee. He was twice chair of the New York chapter of AILA, and is the recipient of numerous AILA awards including the Lowenstein award for distinction in administrative law and the Elmer Fried award for scholarship. Mr. Mailman serves as a director of the American Foreign Law Association, and has served on the AILA board of governors. He has lectured on a wide range of immigration topics for law schools, bar associations, and continuing legal education programs nationwide. He has testified on several occasions on issues of immigration law before committees of Congress. He has been a frequent contributor to professional and scholarly journals, and from 1976 to 2006 wrote a column on Immigration law for the New York Law Journal. A major part of Mr. Mailman's work has been on behalf of institutional clients seeking to authorize the employment of foreign nationals. He has also tried asylum, exclusion, and deportation cases, and has litigated in the federal courts. Mr. Mailman's accomplishments in the field have been recognized by awards from his colleagues in AILA and by listings in Who's Who in American Law and The Best Lawyers in America. Stanley Mailman holds B.A. and J.D. degrees from Cornell University, and the degree of LL.M. in International Law from New York University.

Stephen Yale-Loehr

Stephen Yale-Loehr (syl@millermayer.com) is co-author of Immigration Law and Procedure, the leading immigration law treatise, published by LexisNexis Matthew Bender. He also teaches immigration law at Cornell University Law School, and is of counsel at Miller Mayer, LLP in Ithaca, New York, where he advises many universities, businesses, and J exchange visitors. He is a member of AILA's business immigration committee. He also is a founding member of the Alliance of Business Immigration Lawyers. From 1994-1996, he was a Senior Associate for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C., where he co-authored a book proposing a new way to select economic immigrants. He graduated from Cornell Law School in 1981, cum laude, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Cornell International Law Journal. In 2001 he received AILA's Elmer Fried award for excellence in teaching. In 2004 he received AILA's Edith Lowenstein award for excellence in the practice of immigration law. He is listed in The Chambers Global Guide, New York Super Lawyers, and the International Who's Who of Business Lawyers.

Ronald Y. Wada

Ron Wada is Senior Counsel, Tafapolsky & Smith LLP, San Francisco, California. He specializes in preparing immigrant visa petitions for first preference extraordinary ability, outstanding researcher/professor, and multinational manager and executive categories as well as the second preference national interest waiver category, and the nonimmigrant O-1 visa category for individuals with extraordinary ability. He also has primary responsibility for overseeing appeals and troubleshooting difficult cases. Ron's diverse immigration law background includes nonimmigrant visas, immigrant employment-based first and second preference petitions, labor certifications, consular visa processing, naturalization and denaturalization, asylum, and removal defense. He has extensive appellate brief writing experience, has published a best-selling book on degree equivalency for employment-based green card applications, and has authored a variety of articles on topics in his areas of expertise in the legal journal, Bender's Immigration Bulletin. He has appeared in oral argument before the federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and has been a participant in the Board of Immigration Appeals Pro Bono Project. Mr. Wada is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), and has served on numerous AILA national committees to help resolve immigration law issues having nationwide impact. He received AILA's 2011 Edith Lowenstein Award for advancing the practice of immigration law, an AILA Presidential Commendation in 2006, as well as AILA's Edward L. Dubroff Memorial Award for Excellence in Research and Writing in the Field of Immigration Law. He has received the top A/V rating for attorneys issued by Martindale-Hubble, and has been selected for inclusion in the Best Lawyers in America. He has been a member of the editorial board for Bender?s Immigration Bulletin since 2000. Mr. Wada holds a J.D. degree from the University of Colorado, a Ph.D. in Environmental Science & Engineering from UCLA, and a Bachelor's degree in Physics from California State University, Los Angeles. He is admitted to practice law before the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the U.S. District Court, District of Colorado, and the Colorado Supreme Court.