I build projects. I explore trust. I write about people and institutions.
Founder of Amerpass and RUPASS, independent researcher, journalist, publisher and civic advocate.
Igor Leonov’s work connects journalism, civic activity and institution building: from migration and professional identification initiatives to research on trust, digital platforms and decisions that shape people’s lives.
RUPASS, Amerpass and civic initiatives. From an idea to an organizational model.
Institutional trust, migration, professional identity and AI.
Editing and publishing, author essays and independent media.
Education, migrant support and cultural life in communities.
An interagency analysis of backlogs, processing times and administrative capacity. The study relates border workloads to the ability of USCIS and immigration courts to process cases.
An examination of the different purposes of protection from persecution and employment-based immigration selection, and how both can concern the same person while retaining distinct eligibility standards.
A comparison of Germany, Canada and the United States: qualification recognition, licensing and the use of professional experience. This site carries the revised preprint dated September 11, 2026.
A U.S. nonprofit connecting migrant support, research, education, independent media and cultural initiatives.
Read moreA continuation of the idea of professional continuity: preserving a coherent history of work, experience and achievement across countries and institutional settings.
Read moreAn early non-state initiative to organize and present migrants’ professional experience. Its history informed later research on trust and recognition.
Read moreTrust should never require a person to surrender the right to ask questions.
Игорь Леонов · авторский комментарий; перевод с английского
Source and context · More quotes
Developing Amerpass: coherent professional biographies, supporting records and the presentation of experience across borders and institutions.
Read moreA qualitative research collaboration with Maksym Domashov on prolonged legal uncertainty and its everyday consequences. Stage: research development.
Read moreA collaboration with Maksym Domashov on journalistic material after a newsroom closes. Working version 0.1, August 28, 2026.
Read moreHow Institutions Turn Human Lives into Documents
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