Immigration
Garbia, MacGregor & Plocki provides advice to corporate and individual clients to help navigate the complexities of Immigration Law. We handle all aspects of immigration and naturalization law representing clients from the United States and overseas before the Immigration Courts and the United States Department of Homeland Security. We provide guidance in matters relating to:
- Naturalization and Permanent Residence
- I-9 compliance counseling for employers
- Deportation defense and detained persons assistance
- Business and family-based visas
- Employment authorization issues
- Asylum and NACARA applications
- Immigration counseling for persons with criminal record concerns
Garbia, MacGregor & Plocki have a strong immigration practice with attorneys experienced in finding solutions for a wide variety of immigration matters.
Our goal is to help corporate human resources, legal departments and individuals work more effectively by providing:
- Practical advice
- Establishing compliance programs and systems
- In-House training
- Creative solutions to difficult cases
Garbia, MacGregor & Plocki work with clients to obtain temporary and permanent resident visas to allow foreign nationals to work in the United States including:
- H-1B Visas - US employers in hiring computer professionals, financial analysts, engineers, sales managers, business executives, professors, doctors, scientists and other highly educated or trained professionals
- L-1 Visas - Preparing and processing visas for the transfer of managers, executives and specialized knowledge personnel
- E-I Treaty Trader and E-2 Treaty Investor Visas - Obtaining visas for investors, managers, executives, and key employees to come to the United States to set up and run businesses.
- Employment-Based Permanent Resident Visas - Handling permanent resident or "green card" applications in all employment-based categories for individuals
immigration practice team
Cases
- Mr. MacGregor recently counseled a restaurant corporation branch with over seven hundred employees regarding updating and maintaining their I-9 compliance documents. As a result, the human resources department implemented a compliant and searchable database which allows the company to instantly access employment verification data.
- In a recent affirmative asylum application, Mr. MacGregor submitted extensive briefs and supporting documentation for a journalist fleeing torture by Maoist insurgents. A grant of asylum was recommended by the interviewing officer and the applicant is now safe in the United States.
- In Immigration Court, Mr. MacGregor last year defended a detained disabled man whose wife and two children are United States citizens. The man was released from Immigration detention and at trial was granted a waiver from removal, preserving his ‘green card’ and reuniting the family.