Outline for ILW.COM's Seminar
"Overview Of The Immigration Process"
with Robert C. Divine
Part 3 held on August 26, 2002
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3. Maintaining Permanent Residence and Obtaining Citizenship
(http://www.immigration.bakerdonelson.com/aboutimmigration/information.cfm?CatID=99)
- Permanent Residence
- “Renewing” vs. “replacing” I-551 (green card)
(http://www.ins.usdoj.gov/graphics/howdoi/renew.htm vs.
http://www.ins.usdoj.gov/graphics/howdoi/replace.htm)
- Removing conditions on permanent residence (marriage based
cases)
- How to Lose permanent residence
- Deportability and even inadmissibility
- Abandonment
- Renunciation (9 FAM 42.22 PN 4)
- How to preserve permanent residence
- Validity of I-551 for travel (8 CFR Part 211)
- Reentry permits for absences and “passports’ (I-131)
- Preserving residence for naturalization purposes (N-470)
- Returning resident visas (9 FAM 42.22 notes and exhibits)
- Nonimmigrant visas (9 FAM 41.31 N12)
- Citizenship
- Paths to citizenship
- Birth in the U.S. (7 FAM 1110)
- Birth Abroad (7 FAM 1130)
- General Rule
- Reference to complex historical rules
- Naturalization (8 CFR 306-319, 327-340;
http://www.immigration.bakerdonelson.com/aboutimmigration/details.cfm?catID=94&contentID=546)
- Confirming eligibility and avoiding removal (Ineffectiveness
of expungements: Matter of Roldan, 22 I&N Dec. 512 BIA 1999)
- Completing and filing N-400 package
- Preparing for Interview
- Approval and swearing-in
- Travel following swearing-in
- Automatic citizenship and certificates for children (INA 320 &
322; 8 CFR 320 & 322)
- Obtaining and replacing documentation of citizenship
- U.S. birth certificate (8 CFR Part 301;
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/howto/w2w/w2welcom.htm)
- Report of Birth Abroad (7 FAM 1440)
- U.S. passport
(http://www.immigration.bakerdonelson.com/aboutimmigration/details.cfm?catID=94&contentID=547;
7 FAM 1300 abroad)
- INS Certificates of Citizenship (8 CFR 341)
- Dual Citizenship (http://travel.state.gov/dualnationality.html;
http://travel.state.gov/americansabroad.html)
- Loss of U.S. citizenship—brief overview (7 FAM 1200;
http://travel.state.gov/loss.html)
- American Citizens Services (http://travel.state.gov/acs.html)
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