Business Immigration:
Finding, hiring, and keeping employees with the right credentials and level of skill is key to the success of any business. As conducting business continues to become increasingly global, this often means that a business needs to be prepared to navigate complex immigration laws and processes for employees who need visa sponsorship in order to work in the United States.
Our goal is to provide comprehensive legal representation that meets our clients’ needs starting with walking them through their first hire of a foreign employee all the way through helping them manage corporate immigration policies and procedures for a large work force including employees holding different types of immigration status. We provide strategic, thoughtful, and tailored guidance on the full spectrum of employment-based visas and corporate compliance matters including the following:
Our goal is to provide comprehensive legal representation that meets our clients’ needs starting with walking them through their first hire of a foreign employee all the way through helping them manage corporate immigration policies and procedures for a large work force including employees holding different types of immigration status. We provide strategic, thoughtful, and tailored guidance on the full spectrum of employment-based visas and corporate compliance matters including the following:
- Temporary Work Visas. Our firm regularly represents businesses looking to sponsor employees eligible for a variety of work authorized visas. Some examples of workers we can assist include foreign students educated at US schools now entering the US work force, experienced professionals transferring from one employer to another, executives of multinational firms transferring from offices abroad, and researchers, scientists and artists of extraordinary ability seeking to work with US companies in their field. We provide clients with hands-on step by step guidance and ensure that necessary filings are completed properly and quickly to keep up with the fast pace of business for growing companies. We also help foreign investors and entrepreneurs obtain the necessary visas to allow them not only to invest in their companies in the US but actively work on building them in the US. Our firm has experience with B-1 visas, E-1 / E-2 visas, E-3 visas, H-1B and H-1B1 visas, L-1 visas, O-1 visas, and TN visas.
- Immigrant Visas. We help employers looking to sponsor employees for permanent resident status often referred to as their “green card.” Our firm handles all aspects of pursuing an employment based green card including navigating the Department of Labor PERM process, or preparing petitions for National Interest Waivers or self-petitions for workers of extraordinary ability.
- Corporate Compliance Issues. As part of our full-service representation for clients our firm also works with clients to ensure their practices and records are compliant with federal regulations. We offer ad hoc I-9 legal advice as well as help clients conduct in-house reviews to ensure any issues with I-9 records are discovered and remediated in a pro-active way giving clients the utmost confidence that their practices and records are complying with all applicable legal requirements. We also provide legal advice regarding mandatory corporate record keeping specific to various categories of employment visas such as H-1B and E-3 visas.