Practice Areas
Immigration & Nationality Law
The ScottHulse PC lawyers have a long history of experience representing businesses, families, and individuals in their varied and complex immigration issues. Our immigration practice assists the international trade and cross-border business section by assisting clients in their cross-border needs, such as establishing a foreign-owned business in the U.S., and subsequently obtaining the appropriate visa to manage the U.S. business, and vice versa. We also assist foreign professionals in navigating visa options to work for their future employer.
Key areas of representation and services provided by our immigration lawyers include:
- Business immigration
- Family immigration
- Consular processing
- Employer sanctions and worksite enforcements
- Citizenship issues and naturalization
- Waivers
- Port-of-Entry issues
Select Representations:
- Represent investors from foreign countries seeking E‐1/E‐2 visas to work at their investment enterprise in the U.S.
- Represent multinational companies in the transfer of executives, managers, and specialized knowledge employees to work at U.S. affiliates, subsidiaries, or parent companies in the U.S. with L‐1A or L‐1B visas.
- Represent foreign professionals in obtaining TN or H‐1B visas to work at sponsoring petitioner companies.
- Represent outstanding researchers and scientists in obtaining U.S. legal residence through their research and work known internationally.
- Represented farming businesses in obtaining H‐2A visas for temporary agriculture workers.
- Represented individuals in obtaining waivers to immigrate to the U.S.
- Represented individuals in obtaining their U.S. citizenship.
- Represented individuals in obtaining paroles to enter the U.S. for emergent reasons.
- Represented companies in negotiating fines issued by ICE for I‐9 violations.
- Counsel to U.S. packaging/pallet company in obtaining an L-1 intracompany work visa for purposes of transferring an officer from the Mexican parent company to the U.S. subsidiary.
- Counsel to several U.S. companies in obtaining the appropriate H-1B or TN (NAFTA) visas for foreign individuals hired by the company as engineers and/or managers.
- Represented hospitals, physicians, and nurses in obtaining legal residence in the U.S.
- Represented professional athletes and entertainers in obtaining visas to perform or compete in the U.S.
