Serotte Reich, LLP – Immigration Law

In the court case, Palace Wine & Spirits, Inc. v. USCIS, which was not handled by our office, a liquor sales and business acquisition company with seventeen employees filed an H-1B visa petition in order to employ an individual in a part-time “Operations and Finance Analyst” position. USCIS denied the H-1B petition finding that the […]Read More >

Last week, we received an approval for an EB-1 Outstanding Professor petition on behalf of our client, a tenured mathematics professor at a four-year university, who is currently in the U.S. in TN status. After filing the petition establishing our client’s eligibility under the applicable criteria at 8 C.F.R. § 204.5(i)(3)(iii), our office received a […]Read More >

Earlier this month, our client, a conditional lawful permanent resident since January 2011, was approved for naturalization under INA §319(b) and administratively sworn in the same day as her naturalization interview. As background, after our client successfully entered the U.S. with a K-1 fiancé visa and married her I-129F petitioner, our office had prepared her […]Read More >

In the recent case of Residential Finance Corporation v. USCIS, a U.S. federal court determined that USCIS improperly denied an H-1B visa to an individual seeking employment in a market research analyst position. See Residential Finance Corporation v. USCIS (S. Dist. Ohio, March 12, 2012). USCIS had denied the petition because the Occupational Outlook Handbook […]Read More >

Pacific Steel Casting Company, based in Berkeley, California, has fired about a third of its workers after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted an I-9 work authorization audit in February 2011 and identified about 200 employees allegedly working without legal status. Elisabeth Jewel, a Pacific Steel spokesperson, said, “It’s terribly disruptive. We have highly […]Read More >