Employers and EB-1A

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A large immigration law firm decided to tell my client’s company managers to not sign off on letters they had prepared to support his EB-1A application.

On what grounds? That they would incur some sort of legal liability if they were to sign off.

But it gets better - the managers were signing these letters in their own personal capacity and had already been forbidden to use company letterhead.

Since when does signing personal letters of support for an employee who’s about to file an EB-1A case lead to legal liability? And why are immigration attorneys providing advice on this anyways (when they actually don’t know anything about employment law liability)?

And we’re talking truthful and legitimate claims about the excellent work my client has done for this company.

And they can always add a disclaimer to the letter if they’re so concerned about legal liability. We haven’t stopped them and are not opposed to the addition.

But they’ve chosen to shut the door on us, which means extra work and the need to find other ways to show that my client has performed a leading and critical role at his company.

I mean, really?

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This post is by Amber G. Davis. She started her career working at a boutique immigration firm before moving on to two different large immigration firms (one of which is one of the largest immigration firms in the world). She’s advised numerous high-tech companies of all shapes and sizes, from startups to top ten Fortune 500 companies, and from nonprofits to companies in the IPO process. She now runs Waypoint Immigration USA, representing only individual employees for EB-1A, EB-2 NIW, O-1, etc. and is well-known on LinkedIn with 7.7K+ followers.

Want to get in touch with Amber? You can reach her at amber.davis@waypointimmigration.org or through a LinkedIn connection note (Amber’s LinkedIn profile).