Our law firm provides full-service immigration support to employers, families and individuals and also collaborates with community leaders and other professionals such as social workers and criminal defense counsel who work with our immigrant community.
Attorney Santa María has more than a dozen years of experience working with employers in industries as diverse as IT, healthcare, manufacturing, higher education, primary/secondary education, retail and veterinary science to plan and implement the immigration strategies they need to retain their international workforce. From compliance reviews to work authorization counseling to short- and long-term planning, our firm provides full service employment-based immigration support including:
- Nonimmigrant visas including H-1B, L-1A, L-1B, O-1 and TN
- Labor Certifications (PERM)
- Form I-140 immigrant petitions
- Adjustment of Status applications
- Work authorization compliance including Form I-9, E-Verify
- Immigration program compliance including H-1B public access files, PERM audit files,
- Tax consequences of Nonimmigrant visa status such as F-1/J-1 payroll taxation issues
We also provide full-service support to individuals from planning strategy, to filing applications and petitions, to defending against the threat of removal (deportation). Eligibility for family-based immigration is both broader and narrower in scope than commonly understood. We pride ourselves in helping families understand the legal mechanisms they have available to maintain family unity. Our family-based and individual services include:
- Fiancé(e) visas
- Marriage-based petitions
- Removal of Conditions petitions
- Immediate relative sponsorship
- Adjustment of status applications
- Consular processing
- Humanitarian visas including VAWA, U and T visas
- Status issues including extensions of status and analyses of violations of status
- J-1 waivers
- Naturalization
- Asylum
- DACA
- Removal defense
- Crim-Imm (immigration consequences of criminal offenses)