Immigration Services
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FAMILY-BASED IMMIGRATION
We represent clients in family based immigrant visa categories, including immediate relatives and family preference categories.
EMPLOYMENT-BASED IMMIGRATION
We represent employers and beneficiaries seeking classification as Non-immigrant Worker (H-1B); Intra-corporate Transferee (L-1); Investor (E). We also handle Labor Certification (PERM) applications with the Department of Labor and Immigrant Worker petitions (I-140) with USCIS. We also represent individuals in applications for Academic and Vocational Student visa or status (F-1/M-1).
REMOVAL (DEPORTATION) DEFENSE
We represent litigants in proceedings before the immigration courts (Executive Office for Immigration Review); appeals before the Administrative Appeals Office (AAO), the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) and the Federal Courts.
NATURALIZATION
We represent individuals in applications for U.S. naturalization and citizenship, ranging from regular application to more complex cases.
Our Business Immigration Center
For more than a decade now, Atty. Ed Lindain has been successfully representing business enterprises and individuals who desire to hire or transfer foreign executives, managers, professionals, and other qualified workers in the United States.
Investors
We represent foreign nationals who seek to come here for trade or investment. Treaty Traders (E-1) or Treaty Investors (E-2) or those who are nationals of a country with which the U.S. maintains a treaty of commerce and navigation and who are coming to the U.S. to carry on substantial trade, including services or technology, principally between the U.S. and the treaty country, or to develop and direct the operations of an enterprise in which the national has invested, or is in the process of investing a substantial amount of capital, under the provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
Professionals, Skilled Workers, Students
Our Law Firm also assists in the following:
Persons in Specialty Occupations (H-1B) or those who receive an offer of employment from a U.S. employer for a position that requires the theoretical and practical application of a body of highly specialized knowledge requiring completion of a specific course of higher education.
Intra-corporate Transferees (L-1 or L-2) or those 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.
Individuals with Extraordinary Abilities or Achievements (O-1) or those individuals with extraordinary ability or achievement in the sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics, or extra ordinary achievements in the motion picture and television field.
Academic Students or those who would like to come to the U.S. to pursue an academic or vocational program (F-1 or M-1) in an institution recognized by the United States government.