Profile
Christopher Costa represents foreign national investors through both the immigration and business start-up process, as well as multinational companies transferring and onboarding foreign national employees. He handles non-immigrant and immigrant petitions and applications for corporate clientele before USCIS and U.S. Consular posts including L-1 blankets, individual L-1’s, E-1’s, E-2’s, EB-1C’s, EB-5’s, H-1B’s, TN’s, O-1’s, EB-1A’s and E-3’s, as well as responses to Requests for Evidence and 221(g) requests.
Capabilities
Experience
- Business Immigration Attorney, Cognizant, 2015
- Global Mobility Specialist, Worldwide ERC®
- Legal Intern, Labor Bureau, Office of the Attorney General of the State of New York, 2012
- Summer Fellow, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Newark Immigration Services, 2012
- Contracts Consultant, OiTech Informática e Importação (Brazil), 2009, 2010, 2011
- Summer Intern, UBS Wealth Management, 2008
Recognition & Leadership
- Member, American Immigration Lawyers Association, 2014-Present
- Member, American Bar Association
- Member, New Jersey State Bar Association
- Member, New York State Bar Association
Credentials
Education
- J.D., City University of New York School of Law, 2014
- B.A., Boston College, 2010
Admissions
- New Jersey
- New York
Languages
- Portuguese, Native
- Spanish, Fluent