Immigration

Employers face a rapidly changing immigration landscape. In order to recruit, hire, and retain highly skilled foreign workers, it is critical for U.S. employers to have the assistance of immigration lawyers who continuously educate themselves about the latest immigration developments. We engage in ongoing continuing legal education and maintain a reputation for responsiveness and prompt communication with our clients and the foreign nationals they wish to employ.

Representing many health care institutions, manufacturers, investment firms, scientific research firms, computer-engineering firms, and accounting and actuarial firms, as well as educational institutions, throughout the United States and internationally, we provide comprehensive immigration solutions. We are uniquely positioned to handle your business immigration needs on everything ranging from obtaining nonimmigrant visas for temporary U.S. employment (ex. H-1B, L-1, and O-1 visas) and “green cards” for indefinite U.S. employment to assisting you achieve compliance with Form I-9 verification requirements and anti-discrimination immigration laws.

National and international clients rely on us for sound and creative strategies to obtain U.S. work authorization for foreign workers who are critical to the realization of business goals. We prepare and file the necessary petitions or applications with the appropriate agencies in the U.S. and abroad to achieve your objectives for any type of foreign worker you wish to employ, including, for example:  

• biochemists to develop a new cancer-fighting drug
• environmental engineers to help you develop an environmentally friendly manufacturing process
• financial quantitative analysts to program investment strategy algorithms
• world-renowned neurosurgeons of extraordinary ability to head up your hospital’s neurosurgery department
• college or university professors or an international students on an F-l visa with optional practical training (“OPT”) or STEM OPT

After the desired visa is approved, we help you and your future foreign worker navigate the array of travel bans and restrictions, enabling you to have access to critical foreign workers despite economic or public health disruptions, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. We work to protect you from the current threat of civil and criminal sanctions for employing illegal foreign workers directly or indirectly through subcontractors, arising from increasing audits and workplace raids conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.

For the individual, we facilitate family-based green cards and naturalization petitions for our clients with international backgrounds who need such assistance to keep their families united or for U.S. estate planning reasons. This includes helping you develop strategies for achieving U.S. Legal Permanent Resident status for your adult children who have “aged out” of derivative-status eligibility, allowing your foreign national fiancée to travel to the U.S., and bringing your aging parents to the U.S. in order to provide necessary care and companionship.