Practice Area Details

Immigration

In today’s increasingly global economy, Dean & Fulkerson assists its business clients in dealing with employment and travel issues involving U.S. immigration laws. Typical situations involving immigration law include U.S. businesses seeking to hire foreign nationals to work in the U.S., U.S. businesses seeking to transfer staff from foreign operations to U.S. operations, foreign businesses seeking to establish U.S. operations and transfer staff to manage those operations, and foreign businesses seeking to serve their U.S. customers by sending foreign personnel to the U.S. on temporary assignments. The firm has special familiarity with the immigration law provisions of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) dealing with immigration between the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Our services include the following specific categories of applications and proceedings before the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service:

• L-1 Intercompany Transfers of Managers, Executives and Employees with Specialized Knowledge
• H-1 Temporary Employment of Foreign Workers in Specialty Occupations
• TN Applications for Temporary Transfers or Employment of Canadian or Mexican Nationals
• B-1 Temporary Business Visitor Applications
• Employment-Based Permanent Residence Petitions
• Derivative Immigration Status Filings for Family Members of Employment-Based Immigrants