Business Immigration

TBLO is focused on business immigration legal services.

Your business is counting on successfully navigating the intricacies of the U.S. business immigration process. You need an immigration attorney experienced in an extensive array of business immigration legal services. TBLO specializes in business immigration law, and our immigration attorney is dedicated to achieving the best outcome possible for our clients, as we work collaboratively through the visa application process.

EB1 Visa

Alternatives to Labor Certification: EB-1 visa petitions for multinational managers and executives, individuals of extraordinary ability, outstanding researchers and professors; national interest waiver; schedule A occupations.

I-9 Compliance and Audit

Legal advice and guidance to small, mid-size and large companies on the issues of immigration and compliance (I-9 Compliance and Audit).

Business immigration visa types

H-1B Visa: Specialty Occupation Employees

The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows U.S. employers to temporarily employ foreign workers in a specialty occupation. Currently, the law provides for an annual cap on the H-1B category which is 65,000 visas. Not all H-1B non-immigrants are subject to this annual cap. The quota does not apply to renewals and certain other applicants. The law also exempts up to 20,000 foreign nationals holding a Master’s or higher degree from the cap. In addition, excluded from the cap are all H-1B non-immigrants who work at (but not necessarily for) Universities and non-profit research facilities. Free Trade Agreements carve out 1,400 H-1B1 visas for Chilean nationals and 5,400 H-1B1 visas for Singapore nationals. However, if these reserved visas are not used, then they are made available in the next fiscal year to applicants from other countries.

L1 Visa: Intracompany transferee visa for executives/ managers and specialized knowledge employees

The L1 visa is available to employees of multi-national companies who (i) have specialized knowledge of the company; or (ii) are executives or managers of the company. An individual can stay in the United States for a maximum of 5 years in the specialized knowledge category and a maximum of 7 years in the executive or manager category. At the end of the stay, the person must leave the United States for 1 year before he or she can return on a new L or H visa.

O1 Visa: Extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, business or athletics

The O1 visa is a non-immigrant visa for the individuals who possess extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics, or who have a demonstrated record of extraordinary achievement in the motion picture or television industry and have been recognized nationally or internationally for those achievements.

TN Visa: NAFTA Professionals

The TN visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows qualified Canadian and Mexican citizens to seek temporary entry into the U.S. to engage in business activities at a professional level. Among the types of professionals who are eligible to seek admission as TN non-immigrants are accountants, engineers, lawyers, pharmacists, scientists, and teachers.

E3 Visa: Specialty occupation for Australians

The E3 visa is a non-immigrant visa that applies only to nationals of Australia. You must be coming to the U.S. solely to perform services in a specialty occupation. The specialty occupation requires theoretical and practical application of a body of knowledge in professional fields and at least the attainment of a Bachelor’s degree, or its equivalent, as a minimum for entry into the occupation in the U.S.

B1 Visa: Business Visitors

Business travelers may enter the United States using a B1 visa, or “Visitor for Business” visa. In practice these visas are invariably issued as jointly with B-2, or “Visitor for Pleasure” (i.e. tourist) visa. Those entering on B visitor visas will generally be granted 6-months admission on entry. It may be possible to obtain a 6-month extension to the B-1/B-2 visa, as long as the candidate will be maintaining visitor status, and there are good reasons to do so. It is sometimes possible to change status to another longer-term visa while in the U.S. as a visitor, as long as the candidate advised the relevant U.S. Embassy or Consulate of this possibility beforehand, or there was no preconceived intent to do so.