When Timely Success is Essential
Does your employer have a "no sponsorship" green card policy? Have there been layoffs in your company that limit the filing of a green card application under the usual PERM (labor certification) application route? Are you interested in sponsoring yourself for a green card in the United States under the Extraordinary Ability, National Interest Waiver, or Investor categories?
Not all immigration applications must be filed by a U.S. employer. Green card self-sponsorship may be available to certain investors and business executives as well as highly accomplished scientists, researchers, and artists. These groups may also be eligible for temporary visa categories that can be self-initiated such as the "E" and "Q" classifications. In addition, the State Department administers a diversity visa "lottery" program for nationals of certain countries. The lottery is free and makes available 55,000 green cards each year. A list of countries whose "natives" are ineligible to participate in the lottery program is available.
Simmons & Ungar has a long track-record of successfully helping investors, business executives, scientists, students and artists obtain green cards through self-sponsorship. Our attorneys can greatly increase your chances of success by analyzing your accomplishments and organizing these accomplishments to meet the immigration requirements of self-sponsorship. We are also adept at developing a theme for your application and working closely with you to shape the evidence submitted including the critical testimonial letters that support these applications.
Our lawyers work with individuals from all professions and in academia to obtain green cards under the Extraordinary Ability and National Interest Waiver categories as well as temporary visa categories such as the "O" and "E" classifications. For highly effective self-sponsorship legal services from a firm that has practiced immigration law exclusively since 1955, contact us.
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We are located at the foot of California and Market Streets at the Embarcadero and one block from BART and MUNI stations and near all immigration service offices and courts. Our staff can assist you in Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Farsi and Hebrew. We work with clients across California, the country, and the world. Outside of the Bay Area, we work with clients in cities and regions such as Detroit, Chicago, New York, Dallas, Atlanta, Seattle, Raleigh-Durham, and northern New Jersey. We look forward to working with you.
