About NorthAmericans.com: Free, Independent Immigration Guides

NorthAmericans.com explains the legal ways to visit, work, study, invest, retire, join family or become a citizen in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Most of our readers live outside North America, many read English as a second language, and many are making decisions that affect their money, careers and families. We write for them in plain language.

You will find:

• Program pages for visas, permits and permanent residence routes, each with a status label such as Open, Paused or In court
• Step-by-step guides for processes like adjustment of status or landing as a permanent resident in Canada
• Status Now pages that track fast-moving policy for the USA, Canada and Mexico
• Place guides for US states, Canadian provinces and Mexican cities
• Moving-from guides for people from specific countries
• Employer guides for businesses that hire from abroad, starting at For employers
• Free tools such as the pathway finder and the CRS calculator

Start with the overview for the USA, Canada or Mexico.

• Not a government website. We are not affiliated with US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the US Department of State, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), Mexico's National Migration Institute (INM) or any other government body. We cannot process applications, check your case status or collect government fees.
• Not a law firm or licensed consultant. Our pages are general information, not legal advice. Reading them, using our tools or emailing us does not create an attorney-client or consultant-client relationship.
• Not a visa seller. We do not file applications, sell visas or job offers, or promise results. No one can guarantee a visa.

If anyone contacts you claiming to be from NorthAmericans.com and asks for money or documents, it is not us. Read our scam protection guide. The full legal wording is in our disclaimer and terms of use.

Pages are written by the NorthAmericans Editorial Team. Drafts are produced with AI assistance and checked against official government sources before they are published. Every page lists its official sources and shows a Last verified date, so you can see how current it is.

Our editorial policy explains our standards, and how we research walks through the process step by step. We do not publish invented quotes, testimonials, case studies or statistics.

We are recruiting licensed professionals to review our pages: immigration attorneys in the USA, lawyers and regulated Canadian immigration consultants (RCICs) in Canada, and immigration lawyers in Mexico. Until a page has been reviewed by one of them, it carries the label Expert review in progress. Learn how the expert review program works.

Today NorthAmericans.com has no advertising, no affiliate links, no lead forms, no paid services and no payments of any kind. We do not sell or share reader data. We measure traffic with a privacy-friendly analytics tool that does not use cookies (see our privacy policy).

Our plans for the future, stated plainly:

• We plan to build a network of licensed immigration professionals, and later a way for readers to contact them. Any referral arrangements will follow the professional-conduct rules of the relevant bars, law societies and the College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants (CICC), and will be disclosed. See join our network.
• If we accept sponsorships, they will be clearly labeled and will never influence our content or status labels. See advertise and our affiliate disclosure.

When any of this changes, we will update these pages first.

No government, program operator, school, employer, lawyer or consultant pays us to cover a program or to describe it in a certain way. There is no paid placement on the site. Status labels such as Open, Paused and In court reflect official sources and court records, and they are not for sale. We describe policies and court cases factually, without political commentary.

Email is the only way to contact us: contact@northamericans.com. To report an error, use the subject line Correction and include the page link and an official source if you have one. We read every message, but we cannot give advice on individual immigration cases. More options are on our contact page.