You are a wanderer, adventurer, and dreamer who seeks to leave home to study, work, travel or settle in the United States. Or you are an employer, game for hiring such a wanderer and dreamer. Between you and your goal lies the deep, rocky, and perilous valley of United States immigration law.
United States immigration law is vast and complex. It is crafted and commandeered by eight gigantic government agencies, fueled by four government departments of juggernaut proportions, for corralling millions like you who attempt to enter the country every year. Hour by hour, layer upon layer of bills, statutes, regulations, and memoranda float out, swirl around, and envelop you swiftly as they are debated, enacted, amended, and quashed. If you venture out alone, you can get lost, or be found and restrained by iron-fisted enforcers. The consequences could be disastrous – loss of legal status, detention, separation from family, removal from the country, a permanent bar to reentry.