Areas of Practice


Family Immigration

 

The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) provides two groups of family-based immigrant visa categories: immediate relatives and family preference classifications.

While navigating through these processes can be complex, we work with attorneys in major metropolitan areas throughout the world to counsel you on your immigration options. From Green Cards to Fiance Visas, we help identify the nuances beyond the petition.


Corporate Immigration

 

We assist foreign institutions with international manager transfers, strategic asset allocation, and investor options (EB-5) for corporations. Our clients range from nonprofit institutions to publishing companies.

With the consistent introduction of varying revenue streams and distribution channels, the opportunity for profit grows, but so does the complexity. Ask us about our L-1 experience with small and large institutions.


Human Rights

 

Human rights violations include denial of civil and political rights such as arbitrary detention, torture, or a lack of due process, as well as economic, social, and cultural rights such as the rights to health, housing, or education.

Our lawyers have taught in classrooms, fought near borders, and advocated groups persecuted by foreign countries.


Removal Proceedings

 

The Department of Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) administers the Nation’s immigration court system.

After the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) charges a foreign-born individual, a noncitizen, with violating immigration laws, EOIR decides whether that individual is removable from the country and if found removable, whether they qualify for protection or relief from removal. To make these determinations,

EOIR’s Office of the Chief Immigration Judge (OCIJ) has approximately 350 immigration judges who conduct removal hearings and other administrative court proceedings in approximately 60 immigration courts nationwide. We are there from your master calendar hearing to your final individual hearing.


Artists Visas

 

Demystifying art law is in itself a creative practice. It requires finesse, strategic structuring, and, in many ways, empathy. At the end of the day, art and its worth is profoundly personal. In Immigration matters, a complete overview of one’s accomplishments almost always yields the most fulfilling results.

Our lawyers are more than prepared to move into securing temporary visas to permanent residence for our Artists.


EB-5 Investments

 

The EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program was created by Congress in 1990 to stimulate the U.S. economy through job creation and capital investment by foreign investors.

Enacted as a pilot in 1992 and regularly reauthorized since then, investors may also qualify for EB-5 classification by investing through regional centers designated by USCIS. On Dec. 27, 2020, the Regional Center Program was extended through June 30, 2021.

We have worked with clients and helped them secure Permanent Residency through their years of building their own businesses from the ground up, to working with Investors who invest with regional centers.

From India to Russia, let us help you identify the many sourcing issues that come up during the application process.


Waivers and Humanitarian Visa

 

If you are inadmissible to the United States and are seeking an immigrant visa, adjustment of status, certain nonimmigrant statuses, or certain other immigration benefits, remedies exist within all branches of the Department of Homeland Security to foster family reunification.

Watch our upcoming podcast describing our work with USCIS and Customs and Border Protection and other strategies to procure humanitarian entries.