Legal Expertise

Brian Fu focuses his practice on immigration matters for extraordinary individuals in motion picture and television, arts, and business. He has experience representing clients in a wide range of industries, including entertainment, tech, healthcare, food and beverage, automotive, fashion, and athletics. Brian has successfully worked with Tech PERM clients in Silicon Valley, L-1 and E-2 executives, and EB-1, O-1, and P-1 entertainment professionals. Furthermore, he has counseled numerous clients in court and at immigration interviews.

Representative Matters

• Successfully expedited adjudication of nonimmigrant petitions, consultations, and visa process for 10+ talent and production team members with complex travel plans to work on multinational, multi-million dollar production.
• Handled the preparation of urgent O-1/O-2 petitions and counseled related studios, talent/management agencies, and production teams to secure emergency visas to attend important press and publicity events for major, multi-million dollar network production.
• Obtained numerous visas for executives, artists, and support personnel to work on high-profile video game projects.
• Proved eligibility and received approval for young professionals (actors, directors, etc.) to work on entertainment and commercial productions after preparing winning responses to lengthy requests for evidence. 
• Advised high-level executives and in-house counsel on labor and employment issues for foreign nationals, such as work authorization, I-9 compliances issues, etc.
• Successfully responded to numerous lengthy RFEs/NOIDs and received approvals for business immigration clients (H-1B, L-1, E-2, etc.).
• Won Immigration Court cases for reviews of prior denials.
• Had numerous I-290B motions granted reopening denials.
• Proved nunc pro tunc and reinstatement cases on behalf of clients.
• Received favorable outcomes for I-212 and I-601 waivers for inadmissibility findings.
• Responded successfully to audits for PERM cases.

Honors & Awards

• "Southern California Rising Stars," Super Lawyers (2022-2023) 
• Japanese Government Monbukagakusho Scholarship Recipient

Professional, Business and civic Affiliations

• Member, Southern California Chinese Lawyers Association Pro Bono Committee 
• Member, Melbourne Law School Mentoring Program
• Member, National Asian Pacific American Bar Association
• Member, American Immigration Lawyers Association

Other Career Experience

• Associate Attorney, Law Offices of Sabrina Li, P.C.
• Law Clerk, Law Offices of Sabrina Li, P.C.
• Law Clerk, Liu Law, Inc. 
• Law Clerk, Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles (LAFLA) 

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