PRACTICE

Immigration and Naturalization

Overview

In today’s ever-expanding global economy, maintaining a competitive edge and attracting top talent on a national and international scale is vital for companies. To do this, an organization must be able to easily and effectively hire and retain foreign nationals, ensuring their continued work status and their ability to travel abroad and re-enter the United States. This demands a seasoned and resourceful immigration practice to navigate the government roadblocks that have grown over recent years.

With over eighteen years of experience in business immigration law, Pierson Ferdinand’s Immigration and Naturalization Team is well-equipped to provide employers with sound legal guidance in all aspects of business, startup, and family immigration law, including I-9 compliance.

  • Full Spectrum of Business Transactions

    Like traditional large law firms, we regularly assist clients in the full spectrum of business transactions and related company matters, a large portion of which involves mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, banking and credit, employment, regulatory, corporate governance and board advisory, intellectual property, and financial restructuring and reorganization, among others.

  • Leveraging Technology

    Our Corporate team leverages cutting edge technology in all aspects of practice and our diverse all-partner teams focus on what matters most to our clients and stakeholders, delivering outcomes through shared values of strength, diversity, and collaboration.

  • Forging Close Partnerships

    We believe in forging close partnerships with our clients to better understand their business operations, enabling us to provide more effective counsel and to deliver exceptional value during pivotal moments that often shape profoundly the trajectory and success of our clients’ businesses.

  • Effective Low-Leverage Platform

    Our unique low-leverage platform is not only more cost-effective, it allows us to focus on fewer, targeted engagements than our peers at traditional, elite law firms. This model allows us to get closer to our clients and to know their businesses, preferences, and cadence, and to ultimately meet our clients where they are.

Capabilities

Pierson Ferdinand’s immigration practice offers assistance in a wide range of areas, including nonimmigrant and immigrant visas. These include nonimmigrant visas like B-1/B-2 for short-term business, E-1/E-2 treaty investor/trader visas, H-1B specialty occupation visas, L-1 intra-company transferee visas, O-1 extraordinary ability visas, and TN NAFTA visas, among others. For those seeking immigration visas, we handle EB1, EB2, EB3, and EB5 immigrant visas, along with applications for naturalization, labor certifications, and adjustment of status.

Our services also extend to miscellaneous areas such as I-9 compliance, Social Security mismatch letters, E-Verify, and international assistance for foreign visas and work permits, as well as Irish Citizenship By Descent applications.

Pierson Ferdinand’s Immigration and Naturalization Team is dedicated to helping employers overcome immigration challenges and facilitating a smooth, legal process for hiring and retaining foreign talent.