Corporate and Investor Practice

Monty & Ramirez's Global Immigration practice is dedicated to providing comprehensive and efficient client services in global business immigration and nationality law and related employment matters. Our goal is to navigate the regulatory environment with speed and skill, allowing companies to realize the benefits of their greatest asset – their people.

Our attorneys advise on U.S. immigration matters in a wide range of visa categories to ensure the effective international movement and relocation of employees and new hires to and between countries worldwide. Our corporate immigration practice covers a wide spectrum of services including:

• Professionals
• Extraordinary Ability Individuals
• Multinational Managers and Executives
• Specialized Knowledge Individuals
• Skilled, Seasonal, and Other Workers
• Special Immigrants and Religious Workers
• Entrepreneurs
• Outbound Immigration

Monty & Ramirez also counsels clients on the spectrum of immigration options available through investment transactions. Our attorneys are experienced in providing comprehensive advice and services to entrepreneurs looking for non-immigrant and immigrant visa options including individual or regional center investment through the EB-5 program. We counsel clients on significant issues relating to investor visas through careful analysis and innovative problem solving relating to corporate structure, finance, start-up business planning and investment planning to achieve a client’s business and immigration goals.

Corporate Immigration Compliance Practice

What sets apart our immigration attorneys and highlights their specific subject matter is their ability to create and advise clients on long term goals of their immigration matter while incorporating effects on business decisions, human resources, budgets, tax planning, family and estate planning, and the many other areas of their business or their lives that are affected by their immigration needs. Because immigration is most often a piecemeal procedure that requires short term and long term planning, we pride ourselves on pursuing a course of action for our clients with the end goal in sight from day one.

• Serve as legal advisors to companies wishing to conduct business in the U.S.
• Counsel businesses on well-developed in-house immigration policy for full compliance and efficient program management
• Handle consular processing issues in consular posts worldwide
• Labor Condition Application, PERM, and H-2A/H-2B Compliance Audits
• Anti-Fraud Audit
• Technology Compliance – Export Control and Licensing
• Immigration Due Diligence Compliance and Review

Family-Based Practice

No matter where are you coming from, your race or nationality, we can guide you and your family through the complicated U.S. Immigration System. We focus on helping clients from all over the world and all walks of life with any family-based immigration matters to bring their loved ones to the United States or to assist those who are already here to legalize their status in the United States.

Some of the matters we represent include:

• Immigrant or fiancé petitions
• Immigrant visa counselor processing worldwide
• Derivative of following to join immigrant visa processing
• Immigrant waiver submissions to USCIS
• Adjustment of status to permanent residents for spouses, sons, daughters, and parents
• Acquisition or derivative citizenship applications and naturalization
• Administrative appeals of denials or motions to reopen
• Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to all government agencies
• Petitions under special programs such as U visas, Violence against Women Act, special immigrant juveniles, temporary protected status, and NACARA

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Removal and Litigation Practice

Immigration laws are very strict, and those who break the law can be placed in removal proceedings easily. Our attorneys have experience representing clients in court in all type of cases. We assist individuals with the complicated issues presented by Immigration Court cases including:

• Bond Motions and Hearings
• Defense before the Immigration Court in the form of Cancellation of Removal for Nonpermanent Residents; NACARA; Adjustment of Status, etc.
• Defense before the Immigration Court in the form of Cancellation of Removal for Permanent Residents; 212(c) and 212(h) Waiver; 237(a)(1)(h) waiver; readjustment of status, etc.
• Asylums before the Immigration Judge
• Temporary Protected Status de Novo
• Appeals to the board of immigration appeals
• Requests for Deferred Action

Monty & Ramirez also offers an online immigration system accessible to all clients with up to date status reports, the ability to monitor every step of their immigration matter, and assists in communication and organization of petition documents as needed.

Dreamers

The Obama Administration has announced that it will offer Deferred Action to younger illegal immigrants who came to the United States as children, to allow them to complete their education, continue their military service or begin their careers.

The government is expected to announce specific procedures for this application process on August 15th, 2012. Now is the time to review your eligibility with a licensed attorney and start preparing you’re your documents.

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