Immigration Law and Procedure in a Nutshell
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United States Immigration Law
by: David S. Weissbrodt, Laura Danielson
Topics include: unused visa numbers, final removal order, expatriating act, curricular practical training, removal proceedings, aggravated felony, alienage discrimination, optional practical training, inadmissibility grounds, nonimmigrant classification, removal hearing, special registration requirements, national origins formula, nonimmigrant status, relief from removal, unlawful presence, immigration judge, discretionary relief, asylum officer, labor certification, affirmative misconduct, physical presence requirements, immigration consequences, unauthorized employment, permanent resident spouse
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If you are a beginner, if will be hard for you to start reading althought it will be a better than reading INA or 8 CFR. If you have a intermidiate immigration back ground, why do you even bother looking at books like this? just dive into INA & 8 CFR. Also, go check out AILA and Lexis Nexis Web-sites.
The most difficult thing about studying any body of laws resides, not in its substance, but in its presentation. One advantage of immigration law is that it relies heavily on fairly stable categories. This book should help anyone but the most impatient to build a first outline of the main categories of immigration law--with helpful annotations.
15 chapters: 1-4 (background information--including history and constitutional law); 5 (immigrant visas), 6 (nonimmigrant visas), 7 (zooms on student visas--a sub-category of nonimmigrant visas), 8 (removal--formerly "deportation"), 9 (inadmissibility), 10 (refugees/asyless), 11 (international law), 12 (citizenship), 13 (zooms on rights of aliens in general), 14 (criminal aspects of immigration law), 15 (ethical practice).
Advice: take good note of the general INA and CFR provisions under each category and subcategory, and names (and holdings, why not) of important cases. Add that to your outline, and you have a fine guide for further research. In other words, if your goal is to familiarize yourself with the field AS A WHOLE for the first time, don't get bogged down in the discussions of legal history and cases at first (yes, this is not a manual, so what's the point?)--except for the general history of US immigration law at the start of the book, which gives you a good first sense of the "spirit" of US immigration policy. You could come back to those discussions later, without the aggravation.
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