Dykema’s Immigration Group represents a diverse group of individuals and organizations across the globe, including companies that employ hundreds of thousands of workers from around the world. We routinely assist our clients with a full range of employment-based U.S. immigration matters, including all temporary and permanent visa processing procedures, and PERM labor certification applications, as well as assist individual employees with family-based immigration sponsorship and naturalization, on a cost-efficient flat-project-fee basis.

VISA SPONSORSHIP

Many of our corporate clients hire foreign nationals on either a temporary or permanent basis to fill professional positions in the U.S., and have discovered that the application and compliance processes involved can tax the capabilities of the most sophisticated corporate human resource departments. At Dykema, we enter into a partnership with each of our clients in preparing the petitions and supporting documentation required to obtain such temporary U.S. work authorizations as L-1 visas for foreign national intracompany transferees, H-1B specialty occupation workers, and TN Visas for Canadian and Mexican. Dykema’s immigration professionals also work closely with foreign-based clients interested in establishing a subsidiary or affiliate in the United States in selecting and obtaining the most appropriate visas for foreign national start-up personnel.

Non-Immigrant/Temporary U.S. Visas:

• Visitors for business/training and pleasure (B-1/B-2)
• Treaty-investor or treaty-trader visas for non-immigrant workers from foreign parent companies to their U.S. subsidiaries or affiliates (E-1 and E-2)
• Australian professional workers (E-3)
• Foreign workers in professional/specialty occupations (H-1B)
• Temporary skilled and unskilled workers (H-2B)
• Trainees (H-3)
• Petitions on behalf of the foreign national fiancé(e)s and spouses of U.S. citizens (K-1/K-3)
• Intracompany transferees for multinational corporations (L-1A managers/Executives and L-1B, specialized knowledge workers), including obtaining and amending blanket L authorization
• Aliens of extraordinary ability (O-1)
• Athletes, entertainment groups and support personnel (P-1)
• Cultural exchange visitors (Q-1)
• Religious workers (R-1)
• Canadian and Mexican professional workers, under NAFTA (TN-1/TN-2)

Immigrants (Permanent Residence/"Green Card" and Naturalization/Citizenship):

• First Preference Employment-Based Form I-140, Immigrant Petitions for aliens of extraordinary ability (EB-1A), outstanding researchers and professors (EB-1B) and , executives and managers of multinational corporations (EB-1C)
• Second Preference Employment-Based National Interest Waiver Applications (NIW)
• Second and Third Preference PERM labor certification applications (EB-2 and EB-3)
• Form I-140, Employment-Based Immigrant Petitions following PERM labor certification (EB-2 and EB-3)
• Form I-130, Family-Based Immigrant Petitions on behalf of the Foreign National spouses, parents, children and/or siblings of U.S. citizens
• Form I-526, Immigrant Petitions by alien entrepreneurs
• Form I-485, Applications to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status, including Form I-765, Applications for Employment Authorization Document (EAD) and Form I-131, Application for Travel Document (Advance Parole)
• Assistance with nonimmigrant visa and immigrant visa processing at U.S. embassies and consulates around the world
• Applications by Permanent Residents for Reentry Permits (Form I-131), to preserve residence for Naturalization (Form N-470) and Naturalization to U.S. Citizenship (Form N-400, N-600)
• Applications to Remove Conditions on Permanent Residence Status (Form I-751)

WORKSITE IMMIGRATION COMPLIANCE

Further, Dykema’s Immigration Group regularly assists clients in devising customized Forms I-9; Social Security “No-Match” letter responses, and related immigration policies, procedures and templates. Members of our Immigration team are highly experienced in performing in-house immigration audits for our clients in order to ensure compliance with all relevant government regulations. We routinely review our clients’ I-9 files and processes to ensure compliance with both the law and good business practices. Dykema also develops employee-training materials and provides on-site training of HR and other managerial representatives to implement these policies, as well as post-training support to ensure that its clients utilize these policies and procedures in a manner that is not only compliant with the law, but also consistent with best employment practices.

Our Immigration Group works closely with our Firm’s other related practice groups, particularly our Employment and Corporate groups, to ensure that immigration advice is not given in a vacuum, but rather is given in the context of the larger employer-employee relationship and general corporate compliance and best practices. In so doing, Dykema does not attempt to force a one-size-fits-all solution on every client. Instead, Dykema works closely with its clients’ managers to tailor each client’s policies and procedures to meet that client’s specific cultural needs and productivity goals.

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