Immigration Law USA
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The number one contact on the company for immigration offerings is Thomas J. Arkell. Born in Canada, Mr. Arkell changed into a scholarship athlete on the University of Notre Dame in where he enrolled as a worldwide scholar and became an everlasting resident earlier than acquiring his United States citizenship. He earned each of his undergraduate and regulation ranges from Notre Dame. Mr. Arkell has been named a Leading Lawyer in immigration law by using his peers for many consecutive years. His immigration enjoy includes greater than twenty years of representing colleges, universities, professors, researchers, scientists, administrators, physicians, healthcare experts, agencies and expert athletes on diverse troubles.
Mr. Arkell has provided at national and nearby meetings and conferences all around the United States such as: Harvard, MIT, the University of Notre Dame, USC, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Law School, the University of Michigan, Penn State University, The Ohio State University, Ohio University, the University of California San Diego, University of Florida, Florida International University, University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of Oklahoma, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, the Canadian Consulate General in Chicago; Society of Human Resource Management and the National Association of College and University Attorneys. He has supplied on subjects including TN Status, the transition from F-1 pupil to H-1B transient employee to the everlasting resident, alternatives for permanent residence for foreign school individuals, and the instructional outcomes of heightened protection in the United States. Mr. Arkell has supplied to university provosts, branch chairpersons and school participants approximately the immigration system, as well as carried out I-nine and immigration practices and approaches audits at numerous foremost country universities. He also regularly speaks to worldwide undergraduate and graduate college students at huge universities regarding F-1 non-compulsory realistic training, H-1B, and permanent residence problems which will assist them in finding suitable put up-graduation employment.
He represents a number of the most prestigious universities within the United States, an organization with over $eleven billion dollars in annual sales, several storied predominant professional sports activities franchises, expert athletes, which includes MVPs, Olympic Champions, World Champions and Hall of Famers. He has represented heaps of finished researchers, specialists, and scientists in special degrees in their profession from F-1 students to tenured faculty contributors to founders of successful groups. When necessary, Mr. Arkell will litigate for his clients – one case he effectively litigated in the federal courtroom became highlighted in Business Week. Mr. Arkell takes first-rate delight within the fulfillment of his customers and he is able to represent immigration customers positioned everywhere inside the United States and throughout the sector.
The Arkell Immigration Team has big enjoy with complex immigration topics, consisting of:
Employment-Based Permanent Residence (“Green Cards” )
EB-1 category petitions: Extraordinary Ability, Outstanding Professor or Researcher, Multinational Executives and Managers
EB-2 category petitions: National Interest Waiver, Advanced Degree Professionals and Schedule A, Group II petitions
EB-three category petitions: Professional and Skilled Workers
EB-5 class petitions: Immigrant Investor/Entrepreneur
Labor Certification (PERM Professional and PERM Optional Special Recruitment for college individuals
Nonimmigrant Status/Visas (i.E., E-three, H-1B, H-2B, J-1 (together with waiver of foreign residence requirement), K, L-1A, L-1B, O-1, P-1, R-1)
F-1 Status/Visas (i.E., OPT, CPT, trade of popularity)
NAFTA-TN Professionals (Border and Service Center Applications)
Physicians and healthcare professionals
Family-based Permanent Residence
Citizenship Applications (USCIS and Department of State)
Consular Processing
I-9 self-audits
Immigration methods and procedures audits
Prevailing salary disputes with State Workforce Agencies (“SWA”) and the United States Department of Labor (“DOL”)
Visitor Visas (B-1, B-2, VWP)/Honoraria Issues
Social Security and Driver’s License Issues
Spousal Work Eligibility Issues (e.G., TD, L-2, H-four, J-2)
Hiring and employment guidelines and methods
Estate and Tax Planning
Our firm can gain translation services and/or interpreters for maximum languages if asked.
