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If she were to leave the US now, would she be allowed to cross the border again using her L1-B visa before 11/12/2022? Or would she need to renew her visa? Thank you
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Could you expand on this. Is this only for government-based contracts?
It's kind of a spillover effect where your customers need to meet compliance requirements from other customers such as US presence (not limited to US government btw - mostly around data handling requirements by Infosec teams). Thus as a service providers you are subject to these restrictions as well. Another example, I know cases where you cannot run your service on AWS because the customers have a blanket ban on AWS…
Peter does a thread here every few months. So I want to share a cautionary tale about Immigration lawyers in general and Peter in particular. I had extensive immigration experience in US, where I did many filings. Worked with many different immigration lawyers. In that end with your immigration you are dealing less with the law aspects and more with the paperwork filling which is more clerical work. Things that I rea…
What's the best secondary reference for immigration stuff in Westlaw or Lexis?
If I understand your question correctly, Ira Kurzban's book on US immigration is a great and easy to use book.
Peter does a thread here every few months. So I want to share a cautionary tale about Immigration lawyers in general and Peter in particular. I had extensive immigration experience in US, where I did many filings. Worked with many different immigration lawyers. In that end with your immigration you are dealing less with the law aspects and more with the paperwork filling which is more clerical work. Things that I rea…
Hi bootstrapper101, My friend showed me this thread and just serendipitously I saw this post by you. Is there anywhere I can dm you to dig deeper? I happened to be evaluating this firm and am concerned.
In my immigration journey, I worked with 8 different law firms for various applications, including big ones like Berry Appleman, Fragomen. So I have good experience dealing with lawyers across the spectrum.
If you have a straight forward case, almost any competent lawyer can do a good job. Maybe even Peter might work out for you. For a simple case, I would recommend working with a well recommended local lawyer. Because there are quite a few filings which need wet signature. It will logistically save you time, money and headache of not needing to Fedex things again and again.
If you have a complicated case, I would stay away from solo practitioners and instead choose a mid size firm.
A good place to start looking for good firms is US News national ranking for Immigration lawyers: https://bestlawfirms.usnews.com/search.aspx?practice_area_id...
Out of all the firms that I worked with, I liked Wolfsdorf Rosenthal LLP (https://wolfsdorf.com/) best. They are also Tier 1 in US News ranking. Though they have grown in size since I worked with them.
Talk to multiple firms, do your own due diligence. If someone isn't responding well and doesn't appreciate your business, while you are evaluating firms, it will be much worse after you have signed up!
I'd like to move to the US, but I don't want my visa to be linked to my current job. I'm looking for a merit-based/skill-based visa of some sort, so that my geographic location isn't tied to any company.
Is there anything that comes to mind? Any reading to recommend?
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There are things called Law Societies or Bar Associations that are built to accept and investigate these types of complaints. That's the nature of regulated professions - there are places to complain and investigate.
Hi Peter, I am thinking of applying EB1A, however still wondering about the competitiveness of this VISA and IEPP, e.g. processing time, fee, acceptance rate, etc. Would you mind providing some of your thought? Thank you.
It's hard to compare in the abstract but an EB1A is highly subjective and discretionary and the standard that's been applied the past few years has been very whereas the EIP seems much more like a check the box type of application. The uncertainty regarding the processing time of IEP applications is the biggest negative, I think.