Professor Allan Wernick is a widely-noted authority and advocate on U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Law and is renowned for his ability to clearly explain the issues surrounding this highly complex field. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Stanford University, and his J.D. from Loyola University in Los Angeles. He now serves as Director of CUNY Citizenship Now, City University of New York, and has taught as a visiting professor at UCLA and California State University at Dominguez Hills. His informative columns on Immigration Law appear twice weekly in the New York Daily News and are syndicated nationally. 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.