Practice Areas
Family Immigration:
- Family Visas (Consular Process): Assisting U.S. citizens and permanent residents in sponsoring family members for visas, including spouses, children, parents, and siblings. This includes petitions for non-immigrant visas (such as K-1 fiancé visas) and immigrant visas (green cards).
- Adjustment of Status: Helping individuals who are already in the United States obtain lawful permanent resident status (green cards) through marriage, family sponsorship, or employment.
- Citizenship: Guiding individuals through the process of applying for U.S. citizenship through naturalization.
- Removal Defense: Representing individuals facing deportation or removal from the United States, including those in detention.
- Waivers: Assisting individuals seeking waivers of inadmissibility to overcome past immigration violations or other grounds of exclusion.
Employment Immigration:
- Non-Immigrant Visas: Advising businesses and individuals on securing temporary work visas for foreign nationals, such as H-1B visas for specialty occupations, L-1 visas for intracompany transfers, and O-1 visas for individuals with extraordinary ability.
- Permanent Residency: Helping businesses and individuals sponsor foreign workers for permanent residency through employment-based green cards.
- Labor Certification: Guiding businesses through the complex labor certification process required for sponsoring certain foreign workers.
- PERM Processing: Assisting businesses with the PERM application process, which is required for most employment-based green cards.
- Compliance: Advising businesses on complying with immigration laws and regulations related to hiring foreign workers.
Other Practice Areas:
- Crimmigration: Provide pre-trial and post-trial written legal opinions about the immigration consequences of all federal and California criminal convictions. We can also help individuals seek post-conviction relief.
- Asylum and Refugee Law: Representing individuals seeking asylum or refugee status in the United States due to persecution or fear of harm in their home country.
- Deportation Defense: Protecting individuals facing removal or deportation from the United States, including those with criminal convictions.
- Appeals: Handling appeals of decisions made by immigration judges or other government agencies.
- Immigration Litigation: Representing clients in federal court in cases involving immigration law.
- Business Immigration: Assisting businesses with immigration issues related to their employees, such as obtaining work visas and complying with immigration regulations.
- Investor Visas: Helping individuals seeking to invest in the United States to obtain visas such as the EB-5 visa.
- Visa Overstays: Advising individuals who have overstayed their visas on options to remain in the United States legally.
Additional Services:
- Consultation: Providing initial consultations to discuss immigration options and strategies. An initial consultation is required for us to evaluate your case.
- Legal Document Preparation: Assisting clients with non-immigration documents i.e. preparing pre-nuptial agreements. We are not notarios. We do not prepare documents for you to file. Professional legal ethics require us to fully represent individuals and not just prepare documentation
- Representation at Interviews: Representing clients at interviews with immigration officials. Note that we do not represent clients for cases we have not prepared and filed ourselves unless extraneous circumstances exist.
- Case Management: Managing all aspects of an immigration case, including communication with clients and government agencies.
- Expert Witness Services: Providing expert witness testimony in immigration-related legal proceedings.
- Compliance Audits: Conducting audits to ensure businesses are complying with immigration laws and regulations.
- I-9 and E-Verify training: Educating businesses on I-9 employment eligibility verification and E-Verify, the electronic system used to verify the employment eligibility of newly hired employees.