US Visa Options for Foreign Entrepreneurs

The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that about 400,000 new businesses are started annually in the United States. If you’re a foreign citizen who is interested in launching a new business in the United States, a corporate immigration lawyer can help you obtain an immigrant visa to the United States. For foreign entrepreneurs who are interested in exploring new business options in the United States, but not permanently move to the country, an immigration attorney can work to help you secure a non-immigrant visa to the United States.

Immigrant Visa Options for Foreign Entrepreneurs

An immigrant visa is intended for individuals who want to permanently relocate to the United States. Read more: http://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/us-visa-options-for-foreign-47203/. 

Contact Darren Heyman, Las Vegas immigration attorney, for more information. 

Automatic right of American-born children to U.S. citizenship — which Donald Trump wants to end — ratified in 1868

The automatic right of people born on American soil to citizenship rests on the 14th amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1868.

The amendment nullifed the 1857 Dred Scott ruling by the Supreme Court that denied citizenship to African-Americans.
It reads: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and the state wherein they reside."
In an 1898 case, the court interpreted the amendment to give citizenship to the San Francisco-born son of Chinese nationals. The ruling established judicial precedent ensuring anyone born in the U.S., except for children of foreign diplomats, is a citizen. Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/america-born-children-u-s-citizenship-1868-article-1.2334593

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Left Out of Visa Waiver Program, Polish Visitors Ask: 'Why Not Us?

Since 1986, the United States has been granting visa waivers to citizens of countries it sees as trusted allies. Someone from France or Spain can, relatively easily, use a passport and visit for up to 90 days. There are 38 countries whose citizens do not require visas to enter the United States.
But one key ally has been wait listed: Poland. And the Polish community is asking, “Why not us?”
Polish-Americans are the largest Slavic ethnic group in the U.S., numbering around ten million. If you talk to one of them on the street in Chicago or New Britain, there’s one issue that undoubtedly comes up: the visa restriction. Read more: http://wnpr.org/post/left-out-visa-waiver-program-polish-visitors-ask-why-not-us-0#stream/0

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Born in the U.S.A.—Citizenship and the Constitution

In your editorial “Born in the U.S.A.” (Aug. 21) you assert that the language of the Fourteenth Amendment is “straightforward.” It is indeed, but it doesn’t mean what you claim. The amendment sets out two requirements for automatic citizenship, not just one. A person must be born in the U.S. and subject to its jurisdiction, according to the text. Those who drafted the language were quite explicit; the latter phrase meant subject to the “complete” jurisdiction, “[n]ot owing allegiance to anybody else.” As Sen. Jacob Howard explained at the time, the Citizenship Clause excludes not only Indians but “persons born in the U.S. who are foreigners, aliens, [or] who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers.” In other words, the phrase didn’t mean what they called “partial” or “territorial” jurisdiction such as applies to “sojourners” who are mere temporary visitors, and it certainly didn’t apply to those who were unlawfully present in the county. Read more: http://www.wsj.com/articles/born-in-the-u-s-a-citizenship-and-the-constitution-1440800459

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Critics say US visa program for wealthy foreigners is 'immigration reform for the 1 percent'

With immigration a hot topic on the U.S. presidential campaign trail, unions and immigrant advocates are focusing attention this week on a federal visa program that they deride as “immigration reform for the 1 percent.”
The target of a series of news conferences in a half-dozen cities is the EB-5 immigrant investor program, which allows foreigners to get green cards by investing at least $500,000 in U.S. businesses, as long as the money creates at least 10 jobs. Read more: http://www.ticotimes.net/2015/08/28/critics-say-u-s-visa-program-for-wealthy-foreigners-is-immigration-reform-for-the-1

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Moscow outraged as US restricts Russian upper house chair’s visa for intl conference in NYC

Washington has derailed Russian plans to take part in an inter-parliamentary conference at UN headquarters by issuing a highly restrictive visa to the head of Russia’s delegation, upper house chair Valentina Matviyenko, the Foreign Ministry said.

Matviyenko, who is the chair of the Federation Council, Russia’s upper house of parliament, and the country’s highest-ranking female politician, was invited to attend the Fourth World Conference of Speakers of Parliament organized by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) – an international group founded in 1889, which closely works with the UN. She was also going to take part in the IPU’s 10th Meeting of Women Speakers of Parliament that precedes the event, scheduled for August 31 – September 2. Read more: http://www.rt.com/news/313572-russia-us-visa-matviyenko/

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Department Of State Releases September 2015 Visa Bulletin

The US Department of State (DOS) has released its September 2015 Visa Bulletin. The Visa Bulletin sets out per-country priority date cutoffs that regulate the flow of adjustment of status (AOS) and consular immigrant visa applications. Foreign nationals may file applications to adjust their statuses to that of permanent residents or to obtain approval of immigrant visas at a US embassy or consulate abroad, provided that their priority dates are prior to the respective cutoff dates specified by the DOS.
Read more: http://www.natlawreview.com/article/department-state-releases-september-2015-visa-bulletin

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