LEGAL ANALYSIS

We can help both employers and employees for immigration options, including but not limited to H-1B visas for skilled workers, that best suit bring foreign hires to the US. For employees, we devise a strategy that would allow them to advance their career in the US while keeping the door open for eventual transition to permanent residency. H-1B visas for skilled workers: The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows a qualified alien worker with a minimum of a bachelor’s degree to temporarily (up to 6 years) be employed in the US by a sponsoring employer. A qualified alien worker can bring his dependants (spouse and children) to the US. Examples of workers we’ve successfully represented in H-1B applications include computer programmers, scientists, researchers, engineers, architects, lawyers, physical therapists, economists, financial analysts and fashion designers.An alien worker can be employed either part-time or full-time. It is not a violation of alien worker’s non-immigrant status to be on vacation, on sick, maternity or paternity leave. An alien worker on an H-1B visa may travel outside the US, for business and pleasure, and safely re-enter the country. The number of H-1Bs that can be approved per fiscal year is currently set at 65,000. There is an exemption from this cap available for aliens who have earned a Master’s or higher degree from a university in the United States, however this exemption is limited to 20,000. Also, some petitioning employers are exempt from all numerical limitations. Examples of these employers are: certain institutions of higher education, nonprofit entities related to or affiliated with institutions of higher education, nonprofit research organizations, and governmental research organizations.