Our firm represents clients from all over the world, professionals, individuals, family members as well as numerous firms and organizations located throughout the U.S. Our corporate clients span the for-profit and non-profit corporate world, and include Fortune 500 companies, major New York City hospitals, IT and computer consulting firms, international and boutique firms.

Below is just a sampling of cases that our firm has successfully prosecuted.

O-1 Visa Cases: Persons of Extraordinary Ability in the Arts, Sciences, Business or Athletics.

SCIENCES: Neurologist, specializing in Parkinson’s Disease. On behalf of this major New York City hospital, we successfully petitioned the BCIS to grant O-1 visa status to this outstanding French researcher. The researcher had been a J-1 visa holder and subject to the 2-year foreign residency requirement. The O-1 visa status enabled him to work in the U.S. for an additional three years before leaving the U.S. to fulfill his foreign residency requirement. We submitted copies of his B.S., M.S., Ph.D. and M.D. diplomas, articles which he authored and published in internationally-renowned scientific journals, confirmation of his membership in scientific associations, documentation that he was a presenter at international symposia, as well as numerous letters from experts attesting to the Beneficiary’s extraordinary scientific research.

ARTS: Photographer. We obtained an O-1 visa on behalf of a prestigious photography studio for a Photographer of international renown. We submitted copies of magazine covers and internal pages in which the Beneficiary’s photographs appeared in his home country, copies of chapters of books in showing the Beneficiary’s photographs and many letters of experts confirming the Beneficiary’s expertise. In addition, we submitted documentation on the success of the Petitioning photography studio, including evidence that the studio’s clients included top international fashion design firms, as well as internationally-distributed magazines and newspapers. This was necessary to prove that the studio required the services of an extraordinary photographer.

SUCCESSFUL EMPLOYMENT-BASED PERMANENT RESIDENCE VISA CASES

EXTRAORDINARY ABILITY

ARTS

Fashion Designer
We obtained an Approved I-140 Petition as an Extraordinary Artist for this self-petitioning 23-year-old fashion designer on first submission, without need for additional documentation. We submitted evidence of this young designer’s international success, including national magazines covers in which celebrities wore his clothing; evidence that his clothing is sold in many of the world’s most prestigious stores, and additional evidence of his success.

Understudy for the Lead Role in a Long-Running Broadway Show
We successfully represented this actor/singer/dancer who performed the lead role in a hit Broadway show over 100 times.

Folk Singer/Songwriter
We successfully represented a folk singer/songwriter who had obtained national acclaim in his native Australia.

Ballet Dancer
We successfully demonstrated to the BCIS that this 19-year-old ballet dancer had reached the very top of his field.

SCIENCES

Researchers

Data Base Administrator
We successfully represented this high-tech computer expert by demonstrating that he has reached the very top of this global, expanding field. [Interesting note: we obtained an Approval on this self-petition, despite the BCIS unreasonable request that we prove that our client was "like Bill Gates." The BCIS accepted our explanation that even Bill Gates "isn’t" Bill Gates, in that Mr. Gates is famous for having achieved not only technological expertise, but also for running one of the world’s most successful companies Microsoft. As our client was a technologist and not a businessman, this was not the correct standard to which he should be held.]

Pharmacological Opioid and Receptor Researcher
We successfully demonstrated that this Ph.D. holder, a Pharmacological Opioid and Receptor Researcher is one of the few scientists who has reached the very top of his field.

Biostatistics Scientist
We successfully demonstrated that this Ph.D. holder, a Biostatistics Scientist, is at the very top of her field.

EXCEPTIONAL ABILITY IN THE NATIONAL INTEREST

SCIENTISTS

Hematopoietic Stem Cell Biology Researcher
We successfully obtained a National Interest waiver of the requirement of a job offer for this Ph.D. holder, a Hematopoietic Stem Cell Biology Researcher whose work is instrumental in developing cures for severe blood disorders including leukemia and HIV.

BUSINESS

Phone Card Distribution Company Founder
We successfully obtained a National Interest waiver of the requirement of a job offer for this businessman who started up a phone card distribution company.

Accountant
We successfully obtained a National Interest waiver of the requirement of a job offer for this Accountant. We submitted evidence that, in this time of globalization, it is in the National Interest of the United States to grant this individual U.S. permanent residence status so that our country may make use of his dual fluencies in the accounting systems of both the U.S. and his native country.

ARTS

Journalist
We successfully represented this Russian journalist who continued to write truthfully and accurately despite threats to her life, and convinced the BCIS that the presence of such a strong, independent-minded journalist is, indeed, in the National Interest of the United States.

Painter/Sculptor/Poet
We successfully represented this highly-skilled painter, sculptor and poet. We submitted evidence that this artist’s unique artwork would add cultural diversity to our country and is, indeed, in our National Interest.

MULTINATIONAL EXECUTIVES AND MANGERS

We have successfully represented businessmen who served their foreign employers in an executive capacity, and whose U.S. firms now required their presence here on a permanent basis.

The above is only a small sampling of the employment immigration cases that we have handled in the past.

ASYLUM/DEPORTATION/REMOVAL PROCEEDINGS

We have successfully represented asylum applicants from the following countries:

Host Countries of Successful Asylum Recipients

• Albania
• China
• Egypt
• Ghana
• India
• Liberia
• Mauritania
• Moldova
• Nigeria
• Russia
• Rwanda

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