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Immigration Law
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Our attorneys provide clients with a full
range of immigration and naturalization
services which are carefully crafted to
reflect each client's goals and objectives.
We provide complete preparation of the full
range of immigrant and nonimmigrant petitions
and visa applications. The firm provides
legal counseling regarding the following
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Nonimmigrant Employment
Visas
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H-1B - persons in
specialty occupations which require the theoretical and practical
application of a body of highly specialized knowledge requiring
completion of a specific course of higher education. This
classification requires a labor attestation issued by the U.S.
Secretary of Labor; it also applies to government-to-government
research and development, or co-production projects administered by
the U.S. Department of Defense; |
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H-2A - temporary
or seasonal agricultural workers; |
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H-2B - temporary
or seasonal nonagricultural workers. It requires a temporary labor
certification issued by the U.S. Secretary of Labor; |
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H-3 - trainees
other than medical or academic. It also applies to practical
training in education of handicapped children; |
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L - intracompany
transferees who, within the three preceding years, have been
employed abroad continuously for one year, and who will be employed
by a branch, parent, affiliate, or subsidiary of that same employer
in the u.s. in a managerial, executive, or specialized knowledge
capacity; |
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O-1 - persons who
have extraordinary ability in sciences, arts, education, business,
athletics or extraordinary achievements in the motion picture and
television field; |
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O-2 - persons
accompanying an O-1 alien to assist in an artistic or athletic
performance for a specific event or performance |
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P-1 - individual
or team athletes, or members of an entertainment group that are
internationally recognized; |
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P-2 - artists or
entertainers who will perform under a reciprocal exchange program; |
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P-3 - artists or
entertainers who perform under a program that is culturally unique
(same as P-1); |
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Q-1 -
participants in an international cultural exchange program for the
purpose of providing practical training, employment, and the sharing
of the history, culture, and traditions of the alien's home country. |
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Immigrant Employment-Based
Visas
Employment First Preference
(E1) People of
extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, business, or
athletics. Outstanding professors and researchers with at least
three years experience in teaching or research, who are recognized
internationally. Executives and managers who have already been
employed by a U.S. company’s affiliate, parent, subsidiary, or
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Employment Second Preference
(E2)
Professionals Holding Advanced Degrees, or
Persons of Exceptional Ability in the Arts, Sciences, or Business.
Employment Third Preference
(E3) Skilled Workers,
Professionals Holding Baccalaureate Degrees and Other Workers.
Employment Fourth Preference
(E4)
Special E4 Immigrants must be the beneficiary of an approved I-360,
Petition for Special Immigrant, except overseas employees of the U.S.
Government who must use Form DS-1884.
Employment Fifth Preference
(E5).
Employment Creation Investor applicants must file a
Form I-526, Immigrant
Petition by Alien Entrepreneur, with the INS. To qualify, the applicant
must invest between U.S. $500,000 and $1,000,000, in a commercial
enterprise which creates at least 10 new full-time jobs for U.S.
citizens, permanent resident aliens, or other lawful immigrants, not
including the investor and his or her family.
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Family-Based Immigration
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Immediate Relatives (Spouses of US citizens (USCs),
unmarried children under 21 years of age of USCs, and parents of
USCs; USC must be over the age of 21 to petition for his/her
parent |
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First Preference (Unmarried sons or daughters over
21 years of age of USC) |
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Second Preference (Spouses and children of Legal
Permanent Resident, or LPR) |
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Third Preference (Married children of USC) |
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Fourth
Preference (Siblings of adult USC) |
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Other Non-Immigrant Visas
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B-1/B-2-
visas for temporary visitors |
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F, M,
J, H-3-
visas for academic and vocational students, trainees, exchange
visitors |
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A, G,
C-2/C-3
- diplomatic and international organization employee visas. |
Other Legal Services
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Court Proceedings - Asylum
and Voluntary Departure; Suspension/Cancellation of Deportation;
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INS Fine Reductions – I-9 Employment
Compliance Violations; Illegal Transport by Air and Sea Carriers; |
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Political Asylum / Withholding of
deportation; |
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Naturalization and Citizenship: denaturalization, revocation of
naturalization, loss of US citizenship, criminal matters related to
citizenship |
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