Employment Visas
Employer Compliance (I-9)
Family Immigration
Citizenship
At Knapp Law Co. LLC, we help clients with employment- and family-based immigration to obtain temporary and permanent visas and citizenship through naturalization. We also advise employers on the complex area of I-9 compliance to make sure their employees have work authorization, properly complete the I-9 form and follow the rules for reviewing and recording the corresponding documents. Immigration is an ever-changing area of law with many nuances and pitfalls for the untrained. We parse through the statutes, regulations, case law, agency guidance, and presidential executive orders and explain in easy-to-understand terms the available planning options and what you need to do to achieve your goals.
Immigration Law Practice Areas
Employment Immigration
Helping organizations recruit and retain employees
Family-Based Immigration
Helping individuals bring family members to the United States
Naturalization
Helping individuals apply for U.S. citizenship
Employer compliance (I-9)
Helping organizations keep accurate employment authorization records
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Green Card Lottery Application Period Begins October 2, 2024
The annual Diversity Lottery (i.e. green card lottery) opens this week for the 55,000 visas. The registration period this year is from noon Eastern Daylight Time on October 2, 2024 until noon Eastern Standard Time on November 5, 2024. Each year the U.S. State...
Most Employment-Based Green Card Quotas Allocated for Fiscal Year
In mid- and late-August the State Department announced that it had allocated all available employment-based immigrant visas (green cards) for the first and third preference categories. The expectation is that the second preference also will run out before the end of...
H-4 EADs Safe For Now
In February 2015 U.S. Department of Homeland Security implemented a new rule to allow certain H-4 dependent spouses of H-1B workers to apply for work authorization. The authorization is called an Employment Authorization Document, or EAD for short. This was a...
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