This week I published an accessible introduction to immigration law book for a general audience that is available through a wide range of booksellers in more than 45 countries in eBook ($4.99) and audiobook ($6.99) formats. (The audiobook is just $1.99 as an add-on for anyone buying the ebook at Amazon--basically both for the price of the audiobook alone.)
The book contains brief but thorough coverage of all the legal ways people can travel to the U.S.: temporary visas for tourism, business, work and education, permanent immigrant visas based on family unification, marriage, adoptions, and work (for people with exceptional credentials and skills and other professional and laborers U.S. companies need but cannot find in sufficient companies among the population willing and able to work in the U.S. Asylum and refugee status are also covered. Finally, the Form I-9 process required of every employer to verify both the identity and the right to work status in the U.S. of every employee is also covered, including the many pitfalls it presents for employers and civil and criminal sanctions for non-compliance.
I am an attorney, a tenured professor of legal studies, and the author of numerous law-related textbooks in business law and the legal environment of business in use throughout the U.S. since 1993, as reference books on intellectual property law aimed at a general public. I teach both undergraduate and graduate legal studies courses at Hofstra University's Frank G. Zarb School of Business , including courses I developed on immigration law, intellectual property, and law for the entrepreneur.
Although immigration law has become one of the most divisive issues of our time, there is very little information about our actual immigration law covered in the divisive rhetoric on the subject. This book is a good starting point to understanding our actual immigration policy and the ways individuals abroad can seek legal immigration. It is also a good starting point to understanding what (if anything) can and should be done to change our immigration law and its application--something politicians and commentators always talk about but neither Democrats nor Republicans (since Ronald Reagan) have actually addressed through new legislation even when they had control of both houses of Congress and the White House during parts of the Clinton, Bush, Obama, first Trump and Biden administrations--something lost in all the hyperbolic call to "fix a broken system".
You can preview the eBook and audiobook versions at Amazon by clicking HERE for the English version and HERE for the Spanish version.
