Laura Foote Reiff ^‡

Laura represents many businesses in creating, managing and using "Regional Centers" that can create indirect jobs toward the 10 new U.S. jobs whose creation can give rise to EB-5 permanent residence for investment. She coordinates this work with attorneys practicing in securities law compliance, with economists identifying "targeted employment areas" and projecting indirect job creation, and with licensed securities brokers coordinating offerings. She also represents individual investors in obtaining conditional permanent residence and in removing conditions from permanent residence.

Laura's practice also consists of managing business immigration matters and providing immigration counsel to address the visa and work authorization needs of U.S. and global personnel including professionals, managers and executives, treaty investors/ traders, essential workers, persons of extraordinary ability, corporate trainees, and students. She is an immigration policy advocacy expert and works on immigration reform policies.

Concentrations

• Immigration advocacy
• Compliance and worksite enforcement
• I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification
• Permanent and temporary international transfers of personnel
• Obtaining U.S. nonimmigrant visas, including professional visas (H-1B), intracompany transferee visa (L-1), treaty trader/investor visas (E-1/E-2), student visas (F-1), scholar and exchange visas (J-1), cultural visas (Q), and extraordinary ability/artist/athlete visas (O and P)
• Compliance with Export control requirements
• Naturalization
• Outbound assistance with visa needs in other countries
• Litigation
• Advice concerning withholding of social security and taxation of foreign nationals and corporations
• Corporate restructurings
• Immigration Status of Foreign National Workplace
• Global human capital solutions