| The Immigration and Nationality Practice Group
represents corporations and their employees in all areas of
immigration, nationality and consular law.
Our representation includes obtaining work authorizations
and visas to enable companies to hire aliens or transfer personnel
between nations; compliance with, and defense of, anti-discrimination
and unlawful immigration practices; and advice and appearances
in special circumstance matters such as asylum claims and
removal proceedings. Much of the work involves obtaining appropriate
non-immigrant or immigrant visas to enable corporations to
transfer executives, managers, persons with specialized knowledge
or other key personnel temporarily or permanently to the United
States.
The business visa practice also involves assisting clients
who file applications and petitions for the basic non-immigrant
business visas: B-1 business visitors, E-1 treaty traders,
E-2 treaty investors, H temporary workers, L-1 intracompany
transferees, O for aliens of extraordinary ability and P
performing artists, athletes and entertainers.
We have broad experience in obtaining immigrant visas based
on occupation or profession. Our attorneys have prepared
successful self-petitions for extraordinary scientists,
doctors, coaches, and artists. We have obtained national
interest waivers for researchers despite the increasing
difficulty of the legal criteria. Our attorneys have also
developed expertise in obtaining waivers of the two-year
foreign residence requirement of J-1 visas on hardship and
agency sponsorship grounds. We are proficient in the reduction
of recruitment to streamline the traditional labor certification
process. We also assist persons desiring to come to the
United States to make investments who are not otherwise
eligible to enter the United States as E-2 treaty investors.
We also assists in obtaining family-related immigrant visas,
changing non-immigrant status and adjusting status from
non-immigrant to immigrant.
Another major area of our corporate immigration practice
involves counseling clients with respect to avoiding sanctions
for employing unauthorized aliens and avoiding charges of
discrimination because of citizenship status. As a result
of the enactment of the Immigration Reform and Control Act
of 1986, the Immigration and Nationality Act has become
a full-scale employment law affecting virtually every person,
citizen and alien alike, in the United States. Employers
must, on an informed basis, navigate between sanctions and
discrimination. We conduct audits of employment verification
forms and provides specific counsel with respect to employment
authorization and anti-discrimination matters. We also drafts
indemnification agreements as part of merger and acquisition
transactions and conducts due diligence reviews with respect
to potential employer sanction liability.
We also counsel clients with respect to Department of Labor
audits and investigations dealing with labor condition applications,
prevailing wage requests and labor certifications.
In an era of technological and individual globalization,
we can assist U.S. employers in attracting and retaining
the best and the brightest regardless of national origin.
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Immigration
& Nationality Practice
