Areas of Practice

Employment Immigration & Compliance Matters

For businesses and employers, we provide counsel regarding professional employment visas (for example, H-1B, E-3 and TN categories), treaty-based trade and investment visas (E-1 and E-2 categories), international intra-company transferee executives, managers, and specialized knowledge personnel (L-1A and L-1B visa categories), and business visitors (B-1 visas). We also advise individuals and groups, and the organizations who sponsor them, who qualify for specialty visas in the arts, sciences and athletics, including P-1, P-3, O-1 and O-2 visas. Our office is knowledgeable about work visas and permanent residence for religious workers (R-1 visas).

We guide employers and employees through the employment-based permanent residence or “green card” process, including all aspects of permanent labor certification (“PERM”), immigrant petitions, and adjustment of status or consular processing. This includes permanent residence based on an individual applicant’s extraordinary abilities in the arts, sciences or athletics.

When employers are faced with a federal audit or investigation by Department of Labor (DOL), Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS), Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE), or Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) regarding matters such as immigration compliance for Form I-9 or H-1B visas, we provide advice and counsel throughout that process. In addition, we advise clients regarding Social Security “No Match Letters.”

Naturalization & US Citizenship

We also assist and advise clients in the naturalization (US citizenship) process, and clients who may qualify as derivative citizens based on a family relationship. We counsel clients regarding the requirements and means for maintaining permanent resident status in the U.S., when faced with extended overseas assignments or residence due to employment or personal reasons.

Other

Please note that we take a limited number of family-based immigration matters, and we do not currently take cases involving deportation, removal, or asylum.