Citizenship and Immigration Issues

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Prof. Allan Wernick will introduce the CUNY Citizenship and Immigration Project, and its mission to provide free, high quality, and confidential citizenship and immigration law services to help immigrants on their path to U.S. citizenship. To achieve this goal, the Project’s immigration attorneys and paralegals offer one-on-one consultations to assess participants’ eligibility for legal benefits and advise them on the most viable options available. The Project also coordinates community, educational, and volunteer initiatives to help further its mission.

In addition, Prof. Wernick will also be discussing and answering questions about recent citizenship and immigration issues appearing in the news.

URL: www1.cuny.edu/sites/citizenship-now/

Author Bio

Allan Wernick is a widely published author whose book, U.S. Immigration and Citizenship - Your Complete Guide, Revised 4th Edition, is the leading popular guide on the topic of immigration. He is professor at Baruch College, CUNY and has taught as a visiting professor in Chicana/o Studies at UCLA. His weekly column, Immigration and Citizenship is syndicated by King Features Syndicate, and his column Immigration Advice appears every Thursday in the New York Daily News and every Tuesday in the Daily News Brooklyn, Bronx and Queens editions.

Prof. Wernick currently serves as Director of the Citizenship and Naturalization Project of the City of New York (CUNY) and practices law as of counsel to the firm of Glenn Bank in New York City. He has served on the national Board of Directors of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), as Chair of the Immigration Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and as President of the New York Chapter of AILA.