Getting a green card and the role of your company’s lawyer

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Company lawyers can sometimes be overly conservative,

At the expense of immigrants.

For a lot of them, it’s because of what happened during the previous administration - because denial rates for say, O-1s, were at record highs, company lawyers decided not to do O-1s anymore,  (or in the best case scenarios, impose an extremely high standard for internal review and approval).

Yes, there are exceptions.

But for many big tech companies, employees have been chained to whatever the company lawyer is advising the company to do.

There are a few ways around this barrier.

Go the self-sponsored route OR if you can’t or want to keep your current job, escalate your ask to a senior employee within your company who has the pull to tell the company’s immigration lawyers to make an exception.

It’s the next best thing outside of applying for visas that require no company involvement whatsoever.

#eb2 #eb2niw #eb2visa #o1 #o1visa #immigration #immigrationlaw #greencard #visa

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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).