IMMIGRATION

The Immigration Department has decades of experience providing a full range of immigration services for:

  • Multinational Corporations
  • Medium and Small-Sized Businesses
  • Public and Private Institutions
  • Prominent Individuals

Our immigration attorneys are knowledgeable in the administrative processes of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) agency (formerly known as the INS) and many other governmental agencies that affect employment and immigration into the United States. Additionally, the Department works closely with the Labor and Employment, Entertainment and New Media, Tax, Corporate, and Litigation Departments in order to provide multidisciplinary counsel to achieve our clients’ objectives.

CORE SERVICES

Government Agencies: Client advice and advocacy with various governmental agencies to seek a full range of employment visas, temporary immigration of foreign personnel, and intra-company transferees (including managers, professionals and technicians), including Treaty Trader, Treaty Investor, labor certifications, family green card petitions, citizenship petitions, and retention of U.S. resident status.

 

In-house Training Programs: Training clients’ in-house counsel and human resource professionals regarding immigration of foreign nationals, admission of international transferees, compliance with and implementation of federal immigration reform and control laws (including employment verification and I-9 form compliance), prohibited discrimination under Immigration and Nationality Laws, and Department of Labor audits.

 

Client Defense: Representation of clients in U.S. Department of Labor and the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) audits.

 

Representative Immigration Matters Expand

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News

MS&K Alerts

  • U.S. Employers Should Prepare for On-Site Visits by USCIS, Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp Immigration Alert (February 2012)

    By Frida P. Glucoft and Janice K. Luo
    The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has increased its antifraud staff with contractor inspectors to perform thousands of on-site visits to U.S. companies that employ H-1B and L-1 foreign workers.  These on-site inspections illustrate the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s new attitude and enforcement efforts focusing on employer prosecution for noncompliance with U.S. immigration laws.  These visits are performed by the USCIS Fraud Detection and National Security (FDNS) unit funded by the mandatory antifraud fee of $500 that U.S. Employers must pay the USCIS when filing H-1B and L-1 visa petitions for temporary foreign workers.  These ongoing USCIS visits to H-1B and L-1 employer sites occur regardless of whether the employers are large well-known corporations and nonprofit institutions or smaller companies.

  • Labor And Employment Law 2011: A Year-End In Review, Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp Labor & Employment Alert (January 2012)

    by Steven M. Schneider, Jorja A. Cirigliana, and Jennifer A. Zimbroff
    The following is a review of important labor and employment developments in 2011 and a look forward to important issues pending for 2012.

  • California Law Confirms E-Verify Is Voluntary for Private Employers, Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp Immigration Alert (December 2011)

    by John E. Exner IV
    In the last several years many states throughout the United States have enacted laws making E-Verify mandatory for private employers; however, California stands by the position that the E-Verify program is a voluntary program.

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