Recognized American Institutions of Research
An LPR who seeks to work abroad for a recognized “American Institution of Research” may file a Form N-470, Application to Preserve Residence for Naturalization Purposes, to preserve his or her continuous residence [see article] in for the purpose of meeting the statutory continuous residence requirement for naturalization [see section]. It is important to note that while an LPR working abroad for one year or more for a recognized American Institution of Research may, if his or her Form N-470 is approved, preserve continuous residence; the LPR will still be subject to the physical presence requirement for naturalization [see section; article]. Furthermore, because the concept of “abandonment” of LPR status is a distinct concept from the interruption of continuous residence, an LPR working abroad for a recognized American Institution of Research will not be immune from being found to have abandoned his or her LPR status even if he or she has an approved Form N-470 from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) [see article; article].
The following chart, courtesy of the USCIS website [link], is the list of recognized American Institutions of Research and other related organizations. The left column contains the USCIS AIR number and the right column contains the name of the recognized institution of research or related organization.
List of Recognized American Institutions of Research and Other Recognized Organizations
USCIS AIR NUMBER | Recognized American Institutions of Research |
AIR0000001 |
African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF - USA). http://www.amref.org/ |
AIR0000002 |
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (only in relationship to its research programs). http://www.einstein.yu.edu/home/overview.asp |
AIR0000003 |
American Friends of the Middle East, Inc. URL unknown |
AIR0000004 |
American Institutes of Research in the Behavioral Sciences (only in relationship to research projects abroad). URL unknown |
AIR0000005 |
American Universities Field Staff, Inc. URL unknown |
AIR0000006 |
American University, The, Cairo, Egypt. http://www.aucegypt.edu/Pages/default.aspx |
AIR0000007 |
American University of Beirut (Near East College Associations). URL unknown |
AIR0000008 |
Arctic Institute of North America, Inc. http://www.arctic.ucalgary.ca/ |
AIR0000009 |
Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology. http://www.iit.edu/research/ |
AIR0000010 |
Asia Foundation, The (formerly Committee for a Free Asia, Inc.). http://asiafoundation.org/ |
AIR0000011 |
Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA, Inc.), Tucson, Arizona. http://www.aura-astronomy.org/membership.asp?memberTypeinstitutions |
AIR0000012 |
Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission. URL unknown |
AIR0000013 |
Beirut University College. URL unknown |
AIR0000014 |
Bermuda Biological Station for Research, Inc. URL unknown |
AIR0000015 |
Bernice P. Bishop Museum of Polynesian Antiquities, Ethnology and Natural History at Honolulu, Hawaii. http://www.bishopmuseum.org/ |
AIR0000016 |
Brookhaven National Laboratory Associated Universities, Inc. URL unknown |
AIR0000017 | Brown University (Department of Engineering), Providence, R.I. http://www.brown.edu/academics/engineering/ |
AIR0000018 |
Buffalo Eye Bank and Research Society, Inc. URL unknown |
AIR0000019 |
Burma Office of Robert N. Nathan Associates, Inc. URL unknown |
AIR0000020 |
California State University at Long Beach, Department of Geological Sciences. http://www.csulb.edu/colleges/cnsm/departments/geology/ |
AIR0000021 |
Carleton College (Department of Sociology and Anthropology), Northfield, Minnesota. http://apps.carleton.edu/curricular/soan/ |
AIR0000022 |
Center of Alcohol Studies, Laboratory of Applied Biodynamics of Yale University. Central Registry of Jewish Losses in Egypt. http://world.yale.edu/ |
AIR0000023 |
College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin. http://www.engr.wisc.edu/ |
AIR0000024 |
College of Medicine, State University of New York. http://www.downstate.edu/college_of_medicine/index.html |
AIR0000025 |
Colorado State University (Research Foundation), Fort Collins, Colo. http://vpr.colostate.edu/ |
AIR0000026 |
*Colorado University (International Economic Studies Center), Boulder, Colo. http://www.colorado.edu/ |
AIR0000027 |
Columbia University (Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law) and (Faculty of Pure Science), New York, N.Y. http://www.columbia.edu/ |
AIR0000028 |
Cornell University (International Agricultural Development, University of the Philippines-Cornell University Graduate Education Program). http://www.cornell.edu/ |
AIR0000029 |
Dartmouth Medical School. http://dms.dartmouth.edu/ |
AIR0000030 |
*Department of French, Department of Scandinavian Languages, and Department of Near Eastern Languages of the University of California, Berkeley, Calif. http://www.berkeley.edu/ |
AIR0000031 |
Duke University. http://www.duke.edu/ |
AIR0000032 |
Environmental Research Laboratory of the University of Arizona. http://ag.arizona.edu/swes/erl/about.htm |
AIR0000095 |
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), Batavia, Illinois. [Approved October 19, 2011] http://www.fnal.gov/ |
AIR0000033 |
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Medford, Mass. http://fletcher.tufts.edu/ |
AIR0000034 |
Ford Foundation, New York, N.Y. http://www.fordfoundation.org/ |
AIR0000035 |
*Foundation for Aids Research, New York. [Approved February 8, 2011] http://www.amfar.org/ |
AIR0000035 |
American Foundation for Aids Research (AMFAR), New York, Washington, D.C., Bangkok, Thailand. [Approved February 8, 2011] http://www.amfar.org/world/treatasia/article.aspx?id=246&termsbangkok |
AIR0000036 |
Free Europe, Inc. (formerly Free Europe Committee, Inc.; National Committee for a Free Europe (including Radio Free Europe)). http://www.rferl.org/ |
AIR0000037 |
Georgetown University. http://www.georgetown.edu/ |
AIR0000038 |
George Williams Hooper Foundation, San Francisco Medical Center, University of California, San Francisco, Calif. http://www.ucsf.edu/ |
AIR0000039 |
Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Preventive Medicine, Inc., and its operating unit, the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory. URL unknown |
AIR0000040 |
Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science Division of the New School for Social Research, New York, N.Y. http://www.newschool.edu/nssr/ |
AIR0000041 |
Harvard University (research and educational programs only). http://www.harvard.edu/ |
AIR0000042 |
Harvard-Yenching Institute. http://www.harvard-yenching.org/ |
AIR0000043 |
Humboldt State University, School of Natural Resources, Wildlife Management Department. http://www.humboldt.edu/ |
AIR0000044 |
Indiana University at Bloomington, Indianapolis, South Bend, Northwest, Kokomo, Southeast, East, and Fort Wayne. http://www.iub.edu/ |
AIR0000045 |
Iowa State University. http://www.iastate.edu/ |
AIR0000046 |
Institute for Development Anthropology, Inc. URL unknown |
AIR0000047 |
Institute of International Education, Inc. http://www.iie.org/ |
AIR0000030 |
Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley, Calif. http://www.berkeley.edu/ |
AIR0000048 |
International Center for Social Research, New York, N.Y. URL unknown |
AIR0000049 |
International Development Foundation, Inc. URL unknown |
AIR0000050 |
International Development Services, Inc. URL unknown |
AIR0000051 |
International Research Associates, Inc. URL unknown |
AIR0000030 |
Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies (formerly Stanford Center for Chinese Studies) in Taipei, Taiwan. http://ieas.berkeley.edu/iup/ |
AIR0000052 |
Iran Foundation, Inc., The. URL unknown |
AIR0000097 |
Johns Hopkins University http://webapps.jhu.edu/jhuniverse/information_about_hopkins/facts_and_statistics/JHU_research_highlights/index.cfm |
AIR0000053 |
Kossuth Foundation, Inc., The, New York, N.Y. URL unknown |
AIR0000054 |
Louisiana State University. http://www.lsu.edu/ |
AIR0000055 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. http://web.mit.edu/ |
AIR0000056 |
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan. http://www.msu.edu/ |
AIR0000057 |
Missouri Botanical Garden (research and educational programs only). http://www.mobot.org/ |
AIR0000058 |
Natural Science Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. URL unknown |
AIR0000059 |
New York Zoological Society. URL unknown |
AIR0000060 |
*New York University, New York. [Approved February 8, 2011] http://www.nyu.edu/ |
AIR0000060 |
New York University Abu Dhabi Institute, United Arab Emirates. [Approved February 8, 2011] http://nyuad.nyu.edu/ |
AIR0000061 |
Paderewski Foundation, Inc. URL unknown |
AIR0000062 |
Peabody Museum of Natural History of Yale University. http://peabody.yale.edu/ |
AIR0000063 |
People to People Health Foundation, Inc., The (only in relationship to the scientific research activities that will be carried on abroad by the medical staff of the SS “Hope”). URL unknown |
AIR0000064 |
Pierce College (in relationship to research by an instructor, Department of Psychology), Athens, Greece. http://www.pierce.gr/ |
AIR0000065 |
Population Council, The, New York, N.Y. http://www.popcouncil.org/ |
AIR0000066 |
Radio Liberty Committee, Inc. (formerly American Committee for Liberation, Inc.; American Committee for Liberation of the Peoples of Russia, Inc.; American Committee for Liberation from Bolshevism, Inc.). URL unknown |
AIR0000067 |
Rockefeller Foundation. http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/ |
AIR0000096 |
Research Triangle Park URL unknown |
AIR0000068 |
Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey. http://www.rutgers.edu/ |
AIR0000069 |
School of International Relations of the University of Southern California. http://www.usc.edu/ |
AIR0000070 |
SIRIMAR (Societa Internazionale Recerche Marine) Division, Office of the Vice President for Research, Pennsylvania State University. http://www.psu.edu/ |
AIR0000071 |
Social Science Research Council. http://www.ssrc.org/ |
AIR0000072 |
Solar Energy Research Institute (SERI). http://www.ukm.my/SERI/ |
AIR0000073 |
*Stanford Electronic Laboratories, Department of Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif. http://www.stanford.edu/ |
AIR0000074 |
Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, Calif. http://www.sri.com/ |
AIR0000073 |
Stanford University (the George Vanderbilt Foundation), Stanford, Calif. http://www.stanford.edu/ |
AIR0000075 |
Syracuse University. http://www.syr.edu/ |
AIR0000076 |
*Tulane University Graduate School. http://tulane.edu/ |
AIR0000076 |
Tulane University Medical School. http://tulane.edu/ |
AIR0000077 |
*University of Alabama. http://www.ua.edu/ |
AIR0000077 |
University of Alabama Medical Center. http://www.ua.edu/ |
AIR0000078 |
University of Chicago (as a participant in the International Cooperation Administration Program No. W — 74 only). http://www.uchicago.edu/index.shtml |
AIR0000026 |
University of Colorado (Department of History), Boulder, Colo. http://www.colorado.edu/ |
AIR0000079 |
University of Connecticut, College of Liberal Arts and Science (Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages). http://www.uconn.edu/ |
AIR0000080 |
University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii. http://www.hawaii.edu/ |
AIR0000081 |
University of Illinois at Urbana — Champaign, Austria — Illinois Exchange Program. http://illinois.edu/ |
AIR0000082 |
University of Kansas, Office of International Programs. http://www.ku.edu/ |
AIR0000083 |
University of La Verne (La Verne College of Athens). http://laverne.edu/ |
AIR0000084 |
University of Michigan (School of Natural Resources), Ann Arbor, Mich. http://www.umich.edu/ |
AIR0000085 |
University of Minnesota, Department of Plant Pathology (in relationship to research project abroad). http://www1.umn.edu/twincities/index.php |
AIR0000086 |
University of Nebraska Mission in Colombia, South America. URL unknown |
AIR0000087 |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. http://www.unc.edu/index.htm |
AIR0000088 |
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana http://nd.edu/ |
AIR0000089 |
University of Puerto Rico. http://www.upr.edu/ |
AIR0000090 |
University of Washington (Department of Marketing, Transportation, and International Business) and (The School of Public Health and Community Medicine), Seattle, Wash. http://www.washington.edu/ |
AIR0000091 |
Vanderbilt University [Includes College of Arts and Science, Blair School of Music, Divinity School, School of Engineering, Graduate School, Law school, School of Medicine, School of Nursing, Owen Graduate School of Management, Peabody College of Education and Human Development, the Medical Center, the Public Policy Center, and the Freedom Forum First Amendment Center], Nashville, Tennessee. [Approved April 6, 2011] http://www.vanderbilt.edu/ |
AIR0000092 |
Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. http://wayne.edu/ |
AIR0000093 |
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc. http://www.wennergren.org/ |
AIR0000094 |
Williams College, Economic Department, Williamstown, Mass. http://www.williams.edu/ |
AIR0000095 |
Texas A&M University http://dof.tamu.eduhttp://dof.tamu.edu http://ifss.tamu.edu |
AIR0000096 |
Middlebury College http://www.middlebury.edu/ |
AIR0000097 |
Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/student-affairs/ |
AIR0000098 |
Oklahoma State University http://go.okstate.edu/ |
Current as of March 28, 2016