The Academic Immigration Handbook
| Release Date: 04/27/2026 | ||
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| Format | Size | ISBN |
| Print* | 460 pages | 979-8990066458 |
The Academic Immigration Handbook was born out of an understanding that the robust exchange of students, researchers, scholars, and physicians is essential to address shared global challenges, enhance American prosperity, and contribute to global peace and security.
The Handbook explains the processes that must be followed by both institutions and immigrants, specifically, the rules and regulations regarding studying, working, and training in the United States. It offers real-world examples and walks the reader through the different visa statuses as they pertain to academia, while answering common questions related to transitioning from one status to another, obtaining waivers, options for studying, working, and training while in certain statuses, obtaining a green card, and much more.
University counsel, university administrators, and student and scholar advisors, as well as foreign-national students, professors, researchers, and international medical graduates, will find The Handbook to be a comprehensive resource that provides a deep understanding of the immigration process in a clear and concise manner.
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ADAM S. COHEN is a partner with Siskind Susser PC, practicing exclusively immigration and nationality law. Adam focuses his practice on the immigration of physicians, researchers, faculty, students, nurses, and other allied health professionals. He represents universities, academic medical centers, health care systems, hospitals, private practices, individual students, scholars, and health care professionals.
Adam is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) Department of Labor Liaison Committee, a former member of AILA’s High Impact Adjudications Assistance Committee, a former Vice Chair of the AILA Media Advocacy Committee, and a former Business Subcommittee Chair of the AILA USCIS Case Assistance Committee. Adam is also active in the National Association of Foreign Student Advisers (NAFSA): Association of International Educators and served for several years as a member of the Regulatory Sessions Working Group, International Students and Scholars Regulatory Practice Committee (ISS RP) and Trainer Corps. He is also an active member of the International Medical Graduate Taskforce (IMGT), the physician immigration bar organization, and the National Association of College and University Attorneys, and he serves on committees in both organizations.
Adam has spoken multiple times on academic and health care immigration topics at AILA, IMGT, NAFSA, American Health Law Association (AHLA), and other conferences, as well as for various universities and organizations. He has been selected as a Global Elite Thought Leader – Under 45 and a Future Leader by Who’s Who Legal: Corporate Immigration, as well as a Super Lawyers Mid-South Rising Star. He has also been quoted in The Washington Post, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Times of India, Bloomberg Law, and other press and has written articles and op-eds for various publications, including The Hill and AILA’s Think Immigration blog.
Adam received his law degree from the University of Florida. Prior to joining Siskind Susser, he served for several years as a judicial law clerk and attorney advisor for the Executive Office for Immigration Review.
