Profile
Claudia Isabel Oviedo has over a decade of experience in U.S. immigration law, advising multinational corporations, mid-sized companies, startups, and individuals across a broad range of employment-based and family-based immigration matters.
Isabel focuses her practice on representing corporate clients before U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), and the U.S. Department of State (DOS). She assists clients with nonimmigrant visa categories (H-1B, L-1A, L-1B, TN, E-3, O-1), immigrant processes (PERM, EB-1 Extraordinary Ability/Outstanding Researcher/Multinational Managers, EB-2 National Interest Waivers, Adjustment of Status, I-751, I-90), and naturalization. Isabel regularly drafts and reviews non-immigrant and immigrant petitions, complex audit responses, and strategic responses to Requests for Evidence (RFEs) and Notices of Intent to Deny (NOIDs). She manages client relationships and supervises teams of paralegals and attorneys for high-volume clients. Her work involves explaining immigration concepts and presenting strategies to clients.
Prior to joining Greenberg Traurig, Isabel practiced immigration law at two global professional services firms in Canada and a boutique immigration law firm in Houston, TX. Her prior experience includes representing corporate and individual clients in family and employment-based immigrant and non-immigrant visa petitions, naturalization, asylum, Temporary Protected Status (TPS), Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), U Visa, Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) petitions, Adam Walsh waivers, criminal issues, inadmissibility waivers, and removal defense proceedings. She has experience working with immigration courts, the Board of Immigration Appeals, U.S. Department of State, U.S. Department of Labor, Administrative Appeals Office, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Isabel is fluent in Spanish and previously served as an AILA Canada Chapter Liaison to the U.S. Consulate in Toronto.
Concentrations
- Advising multinational corporations on complex employment-based immigration matters, including strategic planning for permanent and temporary international workforce transfers.
- Preparing and securing U.S. nonimmigrant visas and immigrant visas, including H-1B, L-1, TN, E-3, O-1, EB-1, and EB-2 NIW filings.
- Counseling corporate clients on immigration implications of mergers, acquisitions, restructurings, and Successor-in-Interest transactions
- Providing strategic guidance on naturalization processes.
主要执业方向
荣誉和领导力
- Member, American Immigration Lawyers Association
- Member, American Bar Association
- Member, Texas Bar College
资历
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J.D., cum laude, University of Houston Law Center
- Articles Editor, Houston Law Review
- B.A., summa cum laude, University of St. Thomas
- Texas
- 英文, Native
- Spanish, Native