When Success for Your Business Is Essential
In today's fast-paced business world, it is not enough for immigration attorneys to "know the law"; they must also know current procedures, today's court rulings, the constantly changing immigration policies, anticipate how new policies will be applied, and understand how they relate to the employment practices and business models of specific industries.
At the San Francisco-based immigration law firm of Simmons & Ungar, we have provided creative immigration solutions tailored for specific industries for decades. While we can provide experienced and knowledgeable legal services to any type of business, we are particularly experienced in responding to the needs and managing the applications for certain industries that present specific challenges and opportunities.
Background information on employment based visas for temporary and permanent status
- Visas for temporary employment
- Immigration visas for business
- Employment based categories, priorty dates and quota backlogs
- Overview of labor certification
- Options for avoiding labor certification
The Health Care Industry – We are well-versed in licensure issues, J-1 visa waivers, visa screen requirements, and eligibility requirements for the Outstanding Ability and National Interest Waiver permanent resident classifications for health care professionals seeking employment visas.
The Biotechnology, Diagnostics, Pharmaceutical Industries – Opportunities for permanent resident status based on the Outstanding Researchers, Extraordinary Ability and National Interest Waiver classifications (as well as the O-1 classification) have proven to be particularly available to employees in the biotechnology, diagnostics, and pharmaceutical industries. We are very familiar with the types and quantity of documentation required by the USCIS for approval, particularly related to the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. For instance, we understand organization membership standards and the significance of publications and awards as well as what the USCIS expects to see in a recommendation letter or an expert opinion. We are also very experienced in assisting businesses in developing PERM strategies.
IT Consulting, IT & BPO Services – Recent years have brought unprecedented USCIS scrutiny of the IT consulting and IT/BPO Services industry's applications for H-1B and L-1B visas – particularly for employees working at a client/customer site. For more than 20 years, we at Simmons & Ungar have been representing IT/BPO Services and Consulting companies with large offshore development centers (primarily in India) and a United States workforce at their clients' locations. We have assisted our clients in responding to the shifting USCIS policies aimed at the IT consulting and IT/BPO Services industry. We have developed models for efficient and successful visa processing for a wide range of businesses in this industry – from volume processing for industry leaders to individualized applications for founders, executives and key personnel of start-ups and new U.S. companies.
At Simmons & Ungar, we also have a long history of representing architectural, proprietary software development businesses, construction and engineering firms as well as advertising, media and public relations firms and businesses in the financial sector.
Contact Us
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.
