Attitudes and laws around U.S. immigration have vacillated between welcoming and restrictive since the country's beginning. In this video, Immigration Lawyer Carl Shusterman , a former INS Attorney (1976-82) whose lawyers have assisted thousands of persons across the US in obtaining temporary visas, permanent residence and US citizenship for over 30 years, explains what you should look for in choosing an immigration attorney to represent you.

Naturalized Canadian citizens can lose their Canadian citizenship if they obtained it by false representation or fraud or knowingly concealing material circumstances in the citizenship application process or in the process of obtaining permanent residence.

Distant relatives include married or unmarried adult children, who are given the highest priority, followed by sisters and brothers of an adult citizen who is over the age of 21, and then minor or adult spouses and unmarried children of legal permanent residents.

If you need help with an immigrant or nonimmigrant visa application, deportation, or any other subject pertaining to immigration law, you can post your question or concern on UpCounsel's marketplace or hire an experienced immigration lawyer from UpCounsel's marketplace.

Once granted American citizenship, foreign-born persons are granted the right to vote, the right to government jobs, the right to apply for resident Bookmarks status for VI family members and the freedom to travel with an American passport which provides entry without a visa into many countries.