Ways We Can Help
We have vast experience with business/ employment/investment cases as we understand business needs, projections, corporate structures, financial and technical data in a vast array of sectors. We know how and what relevant information to collect and analyze to strongly and efficiently support cases with the immigration authorities. Among other cases, he have successfully represented:
Multinational companies and smaller enterprises with their L visas.
Multinational companies and new enterprises with their E visas.
International managers and executives and other qualified individuals in their adjustment of status to permanent residency (“Green Cards”).
Bringing TN professionals under the USMCA.
Individuals with their naturalization process to become a US citizens.
How to Immigrate
Family
U.S. citizens may petition for their spouses, children, parents, sons and daughters, and siblings to immigrate to the United States and become permanent residents.
Permanent residents may petition for their spouses, children, and unmarried sons and daughters to become permanent residents.
Immediate Relatives: Spouses, parents, and children (unmarried, under 21 years of age) of U.S. citizens.
Family, 1st Preference: Unmarried sons and daughters (21 or older) of U.S. citizens.
Family, 2nd Preference: Spouses and children (unmarried, under 21 years of age) of permanent residents. Unmarried sons and daughters (21 or older) of permanent residents.
Family, 3rd Preference: Married sons and daughters (21 or older) of U.S. citizens.
Family, 4th Preference: Brothers and sisters of U.S. citizens.
Business
L-1 Intracompany Transferees
The L-1 visa allows companies to transfer executives, managers, or specialized knowledge employees to the company’s U.S. branch, subsidiary, or affiliate.
The L-1 can also be used to open a new office in the United States. The employee being transferred must have been employed abroad as an executive, manager, or specialized knowledge employee for at least one year within the previous three years and be coming to the U.S. to work in an executive, managerial, or specialized knowledge capacity, but does not have to do the same work in the United States that he or she was doing abroad.
Executives and managers (L-1A) are eligible to stay in the U.S. for up to seven years. Specialized knowledge employees (L-1B) are eligible to stay in the U.S. for up to five years. Executives and managers may be eligible to apply for permanent residency after one year in L-1A classification.
Investment
E-1/E-2 Treaty Traders or Investors
Treaties between the United States and certain other countries allow nationals of those countries to come here to develop and direct an investment in the United States or to conduct trade with the United States. A treaty trader must conduct “substantial” trade between the treaty country and the United States. A treaty investor must make a “substantial” investment in the United States. There is no limit on the period of stay in treaty investor or treaty trader status, as long as the investment or trade continues.