Consular Practice
N/AOUTCOME: Approved
Represent companies, investors, and families in a full array of visa and citizenship matters before the U.S. Consulates in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenyang, and Chengdu.
Pasadena, CA
Immigration Lawyer at Pasadena, CA
Practice Areas: Immigration
OUTCOME: Approved
Represent companies, investors, and families in a full array of visa and citizenship matters before the U.S. Consulates in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenyang, and Chengdu.
OUTCOME: Approved
Supervise the preparation of hundreds of H-1B petitions for the high-tech corporation reported by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to be the user of the greatest number of H-1Bs in the country ... . This includes advising the company regarding compliance with Department of Labor regulations regarding matters such as maintaining H-1B public access files, electronically posting notices of Labor Condition Application filings, temporary placement of H-1B workers, and complying with administrative requirements following mergers and acquisitions.
OUTCOME: Approved
Supervise the preparation of a high volume of such cases, which involve developing evidence of the foreign national’s accomplishments supported by expert testimony demonstrating that the foreign nation ... al meets the legal standard for the classification sought. Emphasis on high tech researchers, medical researchers, professors, classical musicians, and other professionals.
OUTCOME: Won
Briefed and argued this pro bono appeal, in which the Seventh Circuit held that the Board of Immigration Appeals abused its discretion in denying suspension of deportation to an elderly Polish woman em ... ployed as an office cleaner. The Court noted the thorough and aggressive briefing of the case, which “attack[ed] the Board’s ... determination on every conceivable front.” The Court reversed the Board and held that the Board must articulate a reasoned basis for its decision, must address the evidence submitted by the foreign national, and must not base its ruling on mere speculation.