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Stephanie Vogt

Associate

Stephanie Vogt has practiced business immigration law for 10 years, specializing in employment-based immigration for individuals and corporations. She advises clients on non-immigrant, employment-based visas (H, L, E, O, P, TNs), labor certification processing (PERM), and permanent residence (green card) applications based on employment (EB-1A, EB-1B, EB 1C, and EB-2 NIWs). She focuses in particular on more complex matters on behalf of entrepreneurs, start-up companies, and members of the arts, research and science communities to obtain L-1, E, and O visas, as well as green cards for individuals of extraordinary ability (EB-1A), outstanding researchers (EB1B), multinational executives/managers (EB-1C), and those seeking National Interest Waivers for EB-2. 

Prior to joining Kodem Son Tang Law Group, Stephanie served as an Associate Attorney in the Business Immigration group at Murray Osorio, PLLC, where she handled a broad range of business immigration-related matters for entrepreneurs, non-profit organizations,  publicly traded companies, and startups.  She was formerly an associate attorney and legal writer at SW Law Group PC, focusing on complex immigration matters for tech- and biotech-startups and multinational corporations, as well as outstanding researchers and individuals of extraordinary ability in the arts. She additionally assisted clients with the preparation of applications for discretionary waivers, including INA 212(d)(3) nonimmigrant waivers and I-601A provisional unlawful presence waivers.

Before turning her focus to immigration law, Stephanie was previously an associate attorney for a leading international law firm in Vienna, Austria where she specialized in International Arbitration.  In that capacity, she developed expertise assisting corporate clients with official memoranda, briefs and witness statements for cases conducted under the auspices of the International Chamber of Commerce’s International Court of Arbitration (ICC Rules) and the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL Rules). She also assisted administrative tribunals with the conduct of arbitral proceedings under the ICC Rules.

Education

Juris Doctor (J.D.)
American University, Washington College of Law Center, 2006

Bachelor of Arts in Sociology
Loyola University Maryland, 1998

Bar Admissions

Virginia

Honors & Activities

Alpha Kappa Delta

Administrative Law Review

Why do I practice U.S. immigration law ?

My goal in practicing immigration law is to enable foreign nationals to take advantage of the freedoms and opportunities the U.S. has to offer, which are often unavailable in their countries of origin. As a foreign service spouse, I have traveled and lived throughout the world (including in Austria and Jordan) and witnessed first-hand the challenges that immigrants face in assimilating into and working in a foreign country.  I enjoy being able to assist foreign nationals in securing visas to work in the U.S., which provides a benefit not only to the foreign worker, but also to the U.S. which benefits from the skills and expertise that the foreign national has to offer.

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