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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Challenges of Employment-Based Immigration
With the annual H-1B lottery upon us, it seems fitting to offer a very short primer on the challenges of employment-based immigration. The H-1B visa is for workers in a “specialty occupation,” which is defined as a job that requires a specific bachelor’s or higher...
Immigrant Visa Processing Pause
Last month the State Department announced that it was pausing immigrant visa (i.e. green card) processing for citizens of 75 countries. The reason given was that individuals from those countries who have immigrated to the United States allegedly apply for financial...
Administrative Processing Equivalent Comes to USCIS
It’s been no surprise, only disappointment and frustration, that “administrative processing” of visa applications at U.S. consulates has increased and lengthened. Consular officers long have used the term as a catch all for applications that require additional...
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