Immigration
Your global operations need the best talent available, and you need the ability to relocate employees to meet your business needs. We help companies compete globally by reducing immigrant visa processing challenges. We help carve a path to legal permanent status for qualifying workers in the United States, improving due process protections for immigrants, and increasing legal avenues for skilled professionals to provide needed services in the United States.
Dykema’s immigration team is “a one-stop shop of incredibly knowledgeable attorneys.” The Legal 500 US
We offer comprehensive employment-based U.S. immigration services, including:
- temporary and permanent visa processing procedures
- labor certification applications
- family-based immigration sponsorship and naturalization assistance
- employment eligibility and worksite enforcement, waivers, naturalization, regional center programs, investors, removal, asylum, and database errors
- WHTI, ESTA, SENTRI, and NEXUS
For more information about Dykema’s immigration practice, click here.
Non-Immigrant and Temporary U.S. Visas
We represent clients who employ foreign nationals to fill temporary and permanent positions in the United States, prepare petitions and supporting documentation necessary for nearly every type of temporary U.S. work authorization, including:
- L-1 visas for foreign national intra-company transferees
- H-1B visas for specialty occupation workers
- TN Visas for Canadian and Mexican workers
- visas for business visitors (B-1)
- treaty traders and investors (E-1 and E-2)
- Australian professional workers (E-3)
- students (F-1)
- temporary agricultural workers (H-2A)
- temporary non-agricultural workers (H-2B)
- trainees (H-3)
- exchange visitors (J-1)
- fiancés of U.S. citizens (K-1)
- extraordinary ability aliens (O-1)
- cultural exchange visitors (Q-1)
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religious workers (R-1)
Immigrants (Permanent Residence/”Green Card” and Naturalization/Citizenship)
Our experience with permanent residence and naturalization includes:
- applications for first preference employment-based forms I-140
- second preference employment-based national interest waivers
- second and third preference PERM labor certifications
- EB-5 immigrant investor visa program, including investors and those who accept those investments
- family-based immigrant petitions, including those related to foreign national fiancés
- naturalization and U.S. citizenship
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