Immigration Law Office offers a full range of immigration legal services, including but not limited to the following matters:
B-1/B-2 Visitor: B-1 - for Business / B-2 - for Pleasure
E-1 - Treaty Trader / E-2 - Treaty Investor
F-1 - Academic Student
G - Representatives of International Organizations
H1B - Specialty Occupation – General Applications, and Benching/Nonpayment Complaints
H1C - Registered Nurses
H2A - Agricultural Labor
H2B - Other Temporary Labor
H3 - Trainee
I - Representatives of Foreign News Media
J - Exchange Visitor
K - Fiancé(e) of U.S. Citizen
L - Intra Company Transferee
M - Vocational Student
O-1, O-2 - Extraordinary Ability
P-1, P-2, P-3 - Athletes and Group Entertainers
Q - International Cultural Exchange Program
R - Religious Vocation or Profession
TN - Trade NAFTA Professionals
EB1 - First Preference - Persons of Extraordinary Ability, Outstanding Professors and Researchers, Multinational Executives and Managers
EB2 - Second Preference - Members of Professions holding Advanced Degrees or Aliens of Exceptional Ability
EB3 - Third Preference - Skilled Workers, Professionals and other Workers
EB4 - Fourth Preference - Special Immigrants
EB5 - Fifth Preference - Employment Creation Investors
U.S. citizens can petition for parents, spouses, siblings, and children.
Legal Permanent Residents (LPR) can petition for only for spouses and children.
Immediate Relatives of U.S. Citizens - Unmarried children under 21, Spouses, Parents, Widows / Widowers (in certain circumstances) - are not subject to any quota or limit on the number of visas that can be issued per year.
Relatives in the following “preference” categories are subject to limits on the number of visas that can be issued each year:
First Preference - Unmarried sons or daughters (over age 21) of U.S. citizens.
Second Preference – (2A) Spouses and unmarried children (under age 21) of LPRs; (2B) Unmarried sons and daughters (over age 21) of LPRs.
Third Preference - Married sons and daughters of U.S. citizens.
Fourth Preference - Brothers and sisters of U.S. citizens.
DV1 Visas (the "Green Card Lottery")
In October 1994, the U.S. government started this program as the permanent Diversity Program for natives of countries that have provided relatively few immigrants to the U.S. in recent years. As such, 55,000 visas are given away in a random lottery drawing to individuals from countries underrepresented in the total immigrant pool.
Representation of individuals with a real fear of persecution because of race, religion, nationality, membership in or identification with a particular social group, or political opinion who apply for asylum or refugee status.
Representation to file applications for U.S. citizenship.
Representation before USCIS inside the United States and at U.S. Consulates throughout the world.
We offer representation and counsel in general immigration matters.