Business Immigration Services
Form I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification and Records Retention
(Private Audits, E-Verify, No Match Letters)
Violating federal immigration employment laws can be costly to a company.
Chavin Immigration Law Office offers private audit services to identify procedural problems and solutions. Employers who make an effort to ensure they are hiring legal workers obtain a good faith defense, in case of worksite enforcement by immigration and customs enforcement (ICE). Chavin Immigration Law Office offers a range of I-9 documentation solutions that include training staff with any hiring function, auditing, and remediation.
Visa Services
Chavin Immigration Law Office advises on the compatibility of your plans and likelihood of your obtaining visas for you or your employees. Ms. Chavin will help you to file complete visa petitions or applications including a full package of supporting documentation for the USCIS, US Department of State, and/or US consulate or embassy, and assist with any related Department of Labor or other compliance requirements.
Employment Based Temporary Work Visas
B-1 Business Visa
Foreign nationals may enter for a specific period, for a particular business purpose: for example, to participate in Board meetings, trade shows, speaking engagements, seminars, conventions and conferences, or to investigate investment opportunities, consult with business associates, negotiate contracts, do independent research or engage in classroom-based training. They can also install equipment from a foreign country, or train other workers in the use of such equipment. Any salary compensation should emanate from a foreign employer abroad.
H-1B Specialty Occupation (Professional) Visa
H-1B visas are a popular choice for those wishing to employ professionals in positions requiring at least a bachelor’s degree (or equivalent work experience) at the prevailing market wage.
H-3 Temporary Trainee Visas
Training should benefit the foreign national in pursuing a career outside the US. It should not be designed primarily for productive employment.
L-1 Intracompany Transferee Visas & “Start Up” L Visas
Companies wishing to transfer an employee, of at least one year, from a foreign branch to a US office may use the L-1 Visa for executives, managers and specialized knowledge employees.
E-2 Treaty Investor Visas
These are limited to foreign nationals from countries with bilateral treaties with the US. Available for managers or executives as well as specialized workers, essential to the operation.
TN Worker Visas
Similar to the H-1B, Mexican and Canadian nationals enter with a job offer from a US employer from a TN list of qualifying positions.
F-1 (on PPT or OPT) Student Visas
The visa holder must be engaged in a full course of study at a school in the US, but students may seek approval of their university international office to work part-time or immediately after graduation, if certain criteria are met.
J-1 Exchange Visitor Visas
Arriving at the invitation of an approved exchange program visa program, these visa holders include research scholars, business trainees, teachers, and professors, as well as au pairs, camp counselors and students. Often have a two year obligation to leave the US at the end of their stay. Waivers may be available.
O-1 Extraordinary Ability Worker Visas
Foreign nationals with extraordinary ability in the arts, entertainment, science, sports or business may apply for an O-1 visa to enter the US to continue to work in that field of extraordinary ability.
Employment Based Permanent Visas
EB-1 Foreign Nationals of Extraordinary Ability, Outstanding Professors and Researchers and Multinational Executives and Managers
Employers and employees who petition in this category may do so without obtaining a labor certification.
EB-2 Workers with Advanced Degrees or Exceptional Ability in the Sciences, Arts or Business
Employers petition for potential employees in this category by going through the labor certification process, involving a testing of the job market to show that the potential visa holder will not take a job from a US worker. National interest waivers may be obtained for some employees to avoid the labor certification and recruitment requirements.
EB-3 Skilled Workers and Professionals
Visa holders in this category normally must have a job offer and the potential employer must complete the labor certification process.
EB-4 Special Immigrant Visas for Religious Workers
Religious organizations can petition for foreign ministers to obtain these green cards.
Investment Based Visas
Please see Ms. Chavin’s comparative chart of investment based visas.
