Services for employers, entrepreneurs and investors

We provide innovative immigration solutions for your company or organization to help you hire global talent or start, acquire, or expand a new business in the U.S. We listen to you: we want to learn as much as possible about your company’s industry, operations, and the challenges you face. We use technology to leverage our partnership with you. With broad based business immigration expertise and a positive track record, we want to serve as your strategic partner and trusted counsel for your business immigration needs.

Representative client industries include computer and information technologies, life sciences/biotechnology, graphic, fashion, and interior design, environmental policy and stewardship, geographic information systems, architecture, construction, infrastructure development, real estate, higher education, physical sciences, arts and entertainment, recreation, tourism, business and management consulting, electronic game design, game board distribution, psychology, and more.

For employers, entrepreneurs, investors, and employees:

VISA AND GREEN CARD WORK:

  • B-1/WB (visa waiver) business visitor issues
  • Temporary Worker Visas (e.g., A/G, C/D, E-1/E-2, E-3, F-1 OPT/STEM OPT, H-1B, H-2, H-3, I, J-1, L-1, M, O, P, Q, R, TN)
  • Employment Based Permanent Residence: EB-1 (Extraordinary ability workers, outstanding researchers and professors, multinational executives and managers); EB-2 (Exceptional ability, advanced degree holders, PERM, national interest waivers (NIW), Schedule A workers); EB-3 (Professional and skilled workers, PERM labor certification); EB-4 (Special immigrants); EB-5 (Immigrant investor entrepreneurs)
  • Self-sponsorships: EB-1 extraordinary ability, EB-2 national interest waivers, EB-5 investors, E-1/E-2 Treaty Traders and Investors, F-1 Visas/CP-OPT.
  • Consulting with employers or employees about job changes, employer changes and other complex issues concerning status issues (provided there is no conflict of interest)
  • Work visas for dependent/abused spouses, aging out children
  • Adjustment of status and consular processing of visas, border applications
  • Entrepreneur parole
  • Advice and planning for work abroad and related issues regarding abandonment of residence and preservation of residence for naturalization purposes
  • Student work and training plans (F-1 and CPT/OPT, STEM OPT), and H-3 Trainees, J-1 exchange programs and J-1 waivers of the two-year foreign residence requirement
  • Waivers of inadmissibility (for temporary and permanent residence)
  • Applications for school and exchange program certifications to accept foreign students/exchange visitors

AUDIT WORK:

  • Internal audits: I-9s, PERM, H-1B, H-2, E-3 obligations
  • Defensive audits of the above for small businesses
  • Staff training for E-verify, I-9 practices and policies, preparing for audits, FDNS visits

CONSULTING:

  • Consulting with business counsel about immigration consequences of mergers and acquisitions, immigration options and workplace compliance, successor-in-interest rules, immigration consequences of work or investment in the marijuana industry
  • Consulting about immigration related employment policies, anti-discrimination rules
  • Development of in-house immigration sponsorship policies for employees.
  • Counseling regarding layoffs and terminations as they impact immigration status, related company liabilities, and visa obligations.