The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans provides merit-based funding for New Americans, immigrants and children of immigrants, who are poised to make significant contributions to US culture, society and academia. The Fellowship supports one to two years of graduate study in any field and in any advanced degree-granting program in the United States. 

To be eligible, an applicant must:

• be an immigrant or the child of immigrants. Both of an applicant's birth parents must have both been born outside of the US as non-US citizens, and both parents must not have been eligible for US citizenship at the time of their births.
• be 30 or younger as of the application deadline.
• be applying to graduate school or in the first two years of graduate school, in any field.

More detailed eligibility requirements can be found on the Fellowship website. Fellows are selected on the basis of merit – the specific criteria emphasize creativity, originality, initiative and sustained accomplishment.