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Global Immigration

Fisher & Phillips LLP provides a single solution for all global immigration needs. We manage a full suite of immigration services for clients to allow their employees to work legally in any country. We provide complete end-to-end case management and customer service to ensure that global expatriate and non-local staff maintain proper immigration status throughout the duration of employment. We utilize cutting-edge software for case initiation, data-intake, case-tracking, and calendaring of expiration dates. This software allows us to track immigration processes for any country in the world. Our case management system is readily accessible online 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by all authorized users and ensures that we are able to manage data in the most cost-effective, reliable, and efficient manner to better serve the needs of our clients.

The Global Immigration Practice has three sub-specialty areas:

U.S. Immigration Services

For more than 20 years, Fisher & Phillips LLP has advised employers on all areas of U.S. business immigration law. We have a team of lawyers and paralegals who practice exclusively in the area of business immigration law. Specifically, we assist employers in obtaining nonimmigrant visas for professionals, intra-company transferees, research scholars, traders and investors, trainees, and agricultural workers. We regularly assist employers seeking to sponsor employees for permanent residence, guiding them through the process from labor certification through adjustment of status or immigrant visa processing at a U.S. Consulate or Embassy. We have extensive experience with Priority Worker permanent residence petitions and National Interest Waiver cases and frequently advise clients on possible avenues to avoid the cost, time, and risks associated with labor certification.

Global Migration

Fisher & Phillips LLP provides assistance to clients with respect to their global immigration needs. This includes obtaining visas for U.S. workers being transferred abroad, as well as assisting in the transfer of key personnel from one country to another anywhere in the world. Our services include developing strategies to ensure the success of each global transfer, proactively gathering and pre-processing application materials, overseeing the filing for host country approvals, coordinating consular processing of required visas, and providing a one-stop resource for the applicant and family throughout the procedure. We also advise corporate clients on developing comprehensive, standardized global Human Resources strategies.

I-9 Compliance/E-Verify

In this age of increased immigration enforcement, we meticulously review clients' practices for verifying the work authorization of employees. This includes precautionary I-9 audits, representing clients in audits by the Department of Labor, and defending claims of immigration-related discrimination. We also provide our clients with a comprehensive, web-based I-9 verification and E-Verify solution. This solution increases overall efficiency of I-9 processes, and provides centralized visibility and management of corporate-wide I-9 risks.

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