Business Immigration Law

US

• Providing counsel and defending against government audits by the US Department of Labor, DHS and the US Department of Justice in matters relating to H-1B dependency, Form I-9 compliance, employer sanctions and immigration-related discrimination.
• Investors and developers – Providing EB-5 services to investors, as well as developers seeking EB-5 capital. Our close affiliations with government bodies, including USCIS and Congress, allow us to participate in and work to support progressive EB-5 legislation and resulted in expediting an EB-5 regional center’s registration and reversing the registration denial of another regional center.
• Individuals – Assisting with extensive visa processing delays under the US Department of State’s “administrative processing” system
• Startup companies – Advising on corporate structuring and investment options to maximize immigration strategy.
• Investor and engineer – Obtaining National Interest Waiver green cards for an investor and an engineer left with no other visa options.
• Multinational India-based IT consulting company – Representing in processing more than 300 H-1B nonimmigrant visas for US facilities in one year.
• Large aerospace organizations – Representing in processing H-1B and H-2B nonimmigrant petitions.
• Non-US airlines – Representing with processing organizational blanket L-1 visa petitions and subsequent consular applications for transfer of personnel to US facilities.
• Computer peripheral product manufacturers – Representing in processing various non-immigrant work visas including E, H, L an, TN, and the US residency applications for their employees.
• Multinational pharmaceutical companies – Representing in obtaining nonimmigrant and immigrant visas based on occupation and profession.
• Fortune 500 apparel manufacturer – Representing on processing visas for non-US designers and unique talent, including O-1 visas for aliens of extraordinary ability.

UK

• Numerous global organizations – Advising on UK work visa applications, including high volume accounts, which are often time critical, requiring expert project management skills, as well as pragmatic risk assessments in relation to sensitive and complex matters at a senior level.
  
• Banking group – Advising on the sponsorship implications of a complex restructure and change of ownership requiring an out-of-time new license application, the transfer of its existing sponsored employees to the new license and a considered approach when dealing with the Home Office to mitigate the risk of negative compliance action.
  
• Global events company – Completing a detailed risk assessment across 32 countries on whether its employees could work overseas using visitor visas in the host country or were required to obtain work visas in advance.
  
• Multinational energy provider – Counselling this energy provider in need of specialist overseas temporary workers (given skills shortages in the UK workforce) to undertake major maintenance and inspection programs, providing strategic risk assessments on using the GBM Service Supplier Route or certain permitted activity concessions under the Visitor rules.
  
• Global private healthcare provider – Supporting its startup operations in the UK, including over 200 Skilled Worker visa applications over a period of six months, and continuing to provide practical and strategic guidance on its continued growth.
  
• Worldwide media company – Advising in relation to the suspension of its sponsor license, which was successfully reinstated.
  
• Major high-street retailer – Advising on a range of immigration right-to-work issues for its UK workforce, including the often-problematic overlap between immigration and employment law.
  
• Businesses in various sectors – Supporting employers in finance, professional services, energy, manufacturing and media on:
• The implications of sponsored employees who had inadvertently been working in breach of their visa conditions, using our experience to mitigate the risk of civil penalties and license
  revocation.
• Securing the reinstatement of numerous work visas for senior level employees that had been cancelled, often as a result of compliance oversights within the employing organization, enabling the employees to continue working in the UK and minimizing disruption to the business’s operations.

Europe and CIS

• India-based software services and consulting company – Counseling on work and residence issues pertaining to a number of non-EU citizens working in Poland.
• Global companies including leading hospitality and energy providers – Advising on obtaining Spanish work and residence permits for key employees and family members as well as advising individuals on obtaining Spanish citizenship.
• One of the largest steelmaking companies in the world and a global supplier of paints, coatings, optical products, chemicals and glass – Advising on all possible issues relating to legalisation of foreign employees and their family members in Russia, within the shortest time possible, and advising with expatriate employment and dismissal procedures.
• One of the largest coffee companies in the world – Providing advice on how to mitigate risks with regard to violations of immigration legislation that may be identified during the audits conducted by the Russian state migration authorities.

Asia and Australia

• China-based company – Providing advice on standard business sponsorship and obtaining a subclass 457 visa for a senior finance executive.
• Construction services company – Advising on implementation of industrial relation strategies and migration law strategies to deal with significant inbound labor requirements.
• Inbound company – Advising on all aspects of employment in Australia including the preparation of contracts, obtaining standard business sponsorship and understanding long stay visa and sponsorship obligations.
• Representing clients in the Migration Review Tribunal in Australia to obtain an order setting aside Department of Immigration and Citizenship sanctions against client’s sponsorship rights.
• Employers and individuals – Representing with employment and investment visa applications in Hong Kong and Singapore including the application of their dependents’ visas.
• Advising on procedural and strategic issues arising out of the acquisition of employees working under an employment visa in Hong Kong.
• High-net-worth individuals – Representing individuals wanting to immigrate to Hong Kong under the Capital Investment Entrant Scheme.

• Rated in Legal 500 UK and Chambers UK 2013 with the following recommendation: “The growing immigration team at Squire Patton Boggs was described by one client as ‘the best firm I have ever dealt with for immigration support.’ Interviewees described Squire Patton Boggs as ‘exceptionally helpful’, delivering advice that ‘is always precise, consistent, clear and timely’.”