Immigration Compliance & Strategic Planning
Planning ahead – whether to ensure full immigration compliance, minimize audit risks, maintain immigration status, and/or increase chances of USCIS petition approval – has become imperative in this increasingly more stringent immigration landscape.
Our lawyers help employers navigate an increasingly complex and high-stakes enforcement environment by developing overall immigration policies, providing strategic guidance on I-9 compliance, E-Verify, worksite inspections, and investigations by ICE, DOJ, DOL, and USCIS, as well as strategic planning for successfully maintaining a foreign national workforce. We assist businesses in identifying areas of noncompliance, correcting errors, and building practical, durable compliance programs that minimize exposure to audits, penalties, and operational and staffing disruptions.
Beyond general compliance, with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) applying heightened scrutiny in their review, filing nonimmigrant and immigrant visa petitions with USCIS has become more challenging and complex, with increasing number of Request for Further Evidence (RFE) and Notices of Intent to Deny (NOID)/Revoke (NOIR) issued and even denials. Especially for certain country nationals, self-petitioned immigrant visa applications, such as the EB-1A extraordinary ability category and EB-2 national interest waiver (NIW) petitions have become increasingly problematic.
With federal agencies applying heightened scrutiny, we, in collaboration with a former USCIS officer with over 28 years of USCIS adjudications experience, offer proactive counsel, policy reviews, and strategic planning, to ensure employers remain compliant, and increase likelihood of petition approval, in order to maintain business continuity.
