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.