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Proskauer Rose LLP counsels corporate clients and their employees in all areas of immigration, nationality and consular law. This includes providing guidance as to corporate immigration policy, unlawful immigration practices, compliance with record keeping and immigration anti-discrimination provisions. Much of the work involves obtaining appropriate non-immigrant or immigrant visas to enable corporations to transfer executives, managers, persons with specialized knowledge or other key personnel temporarily or permanently to the United States. For more information about this practice area, contact:

DAVID GRUNBLATT 973.274.6021 dgrunblatt@proskauer.com

The business visa practice also involves assisting clients who file applications and petitions for the basic non-immigrant business visas: B-1 business visitors, E-1 treaty traders, E-2 treaty investors, H temporary workers, L-1 intracompany transferees, O for aliens of extraordinary ability and P for performing artists, athletes and entertainers. Proskauer's immigration and nationality lawyers also are experienced in obtaining visas for students, nurses, religious workers, exchange visitors and trainees.

Proskauer counsels clients on TN visas available to Canadian and Mexican citizens under the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

Proskauer has broad experience in obtaining immigrant visas based on occupation or profession. Proskauer attorneys have prepared successful self-petitions for extraordinary scientists, doctors, coaches, and artists. We have obtained national interest waivers for researchers despite the increasing difficulty of the legal criteria. Proskauer attorneys have also developed expertise in obtaining waivers of the two-year foreign residence requirement of J-1 visas on hardship and agency sponsorship grounds. Proskauer is proficient in the labor certification process. We can also assist persons desiring to come to the United States to make investments who are not otherwise eligible to enter the United States as E-2 treaty investors.

In addition to obtaining visas for foreign nationals to work in the United States, Proskauer also assists employees of United States companies in obtaining foreign visas to work and/or study abroad.

Proskauer also assists in obtaining family-related immigrant visas, changing non-immigrant status and adjusting status from non-immigrant to immigrant.

Another major area of Proskauer's corporate immigration practice involves counseling clients with respect to avoiding sanctions for employing unauthorized aliens and avoiding charges of discrimination because of citizenship status. The Immigration and Nationality Act has become a full-scale employment law affecting virtually every person -- citizen and alien alike -- in the United States. Employers must, on an informed basis, navigate between sanctions and discrimination. Proskauer conducts audits of employment verification forms and provides specific counsel with respect to employment authorization and anti-discrimination matters. Proskauer also drafts indemnification agreements as part of merger and acquisition transactions and conducts due diligence reviews with respect to potential employer sanction liability.

We also counsel clients with respect to Department of Labor audits and investigations dealing with labor condition applications, prevailing wage requests and labor certifications.

Proskauer provides a unique case management software system to keep its clients informed of the immigration status and application processes of their employees and prospective employees. This management system generates monthly activity reports and client alerts as to developing legal issues in this area. In an era of technological and individual globalization, Proskauer can assist U.S. employers in attracting and retaining the best and the brightest from all over the world.

Immigration News Flashes

Immigration News Flash: USCIS Reports on Random Selection of FY 2009 H-1Bs and Adjudication Timetables

Immigration News Flash: USCIS Announces Record Number of FY 2009 H-1B Cap Filings

Immigration News Flash: USCIS Announces that FY 2009 H-1B Caps Have Been Reached

Immigration News Flash: USCIS Clarifies Effective Date of New I-9 Form

Immigration News Flash: USCIS Publishes an Updated Form I-9 and Employer Handbook

Immigration News Flash: Federal Judge Issues Order Temporarily Blocking Implementation of The Department of Homeland Security's Social Security Number "No-Match" Regulation

Immigration News Flash: USCIS will accept Employment-based Green Card Applications: Another Stunning Reversal

Immigration News Flash: Last Minute Reversal in Employment-Based Immigration Visa Availability

Immigration News Flash: USCIS Announces Temporary Suspension of Premium Processing for I-140s

Immigration News Flash: All Employment-Based Categories Are Now Current Effective July 1, 2007 with The Sole Exception of "Other Workers."

Immigration News Flash: H-1B Cap Reached