The Business Immigration Group of Kramer Levin serves as immigration counsel to many of the nation’s leading companies and other organizations, particularly those with operations not just in the United States, but in multiple locations throughout the world. Our clients cover a wide range of industries, including media, financial services, advertising, education, entertainment, banking, consumer products, and health services.

Our group features seven lawyers with impressive credentials, dedicated exclusively to the practice of business immigration law. We counsel corporate clients and their foreign national employees in all phases of the hiring and transfer of foreign national executives, managers, professionals, investors, and performing artists to the United States. We also represent individuals, who, because of their extraordinary ability in their fields or because of their substantial investments in the United States, do not require corporate sponsorship to immigrate. Our representation of clients extends to appearances before the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the Department of State Visa Office, the Department of Labor, U.S. consular posts throughout the world, the Executive Office of Immigration Review, and the Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices.

The Business Immigration Group is nationally recognized as one of the country’s pre-eminent immigration practices, with an exceptional record in counseling companies about the best short- and long-term visa strategies for their specific needs. Whether it be a short-term business visitor, a treaty trader or investor, a specialty occupation worker, an executive or managerial intracompany transferee, a physician or nurse, or an artist or businessperson of extraordinary ability, our group has an outstanding reputation for finding the best solution to a client’s problem, preparing cases both efficiently and effectively. Our expertise also extends to representing clients on naturalization matters and in advising on issues involving the retention or relinquishment of permanent residence status.

The Business Immigration Group provides a broad range of services for ensuring that our clients are in compliance with the employer sanctions and anti-discrimination provisions of the law. We conduct audits of employment verification forms and regularly advise our clients how to establish efficient and accurate employment verification compliance programs. We also provide advice to companies about the immigration-related aspects of corporate restructurings, including mergers and acquisitions, due diligence reviews, divestitures, and other related matters, such as I-9 compliance and indemnification agreements.

We believe that our clients should be kept abreast of all important changes and proposed changes to the immigration laws. We send out Client Alerts on a regular basis to keep clients apprised of all important developments in the law, and we conduct client seminars, both in our offices and at client sites, throughout the year.