Whether you are a corporation, investor or start-up company seeking proper work permits and visas for training and hiring employees in the U.S., an organization seeking to coordinate with foreign immigration specialists to transfer U.S. employees abroad, or a business seeking to ensure immigration compliance, it’s easy to become overwhelmed by the complex, rapidly changing requirements and processes.

Through comprehensive knowledge of the legal, political and business context in which immigration and naturalization concerns arise, Munsch Hardt’s Immigration Practice enables clients to operate successfully in a world where capital and business opportunities have no borders. Our team’s understanding of the bureaucratic intricacies and our frequent interaction with U.S. Departments of Homeland Security, Labor and State, as well as their counterparts around the world, assure our attorneys’ ability to effectively represent the clients. 

We work with companies and individuals to address 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. And, on any given day, our team is working with companies and their employees active in the construction, education, energy, engineering, health care, manufacturing, media, telecommunications, technology and transportations industries. Areas of emphasis include the following:

Munsch Hardt’s team works closely with clients on the front-end to develop and execute innovative immigration management programs to ensure client objectives are met on time and under budget; however, our practice extends well beyond developing strategies to streamline the immigration process for inbound and outbound employees. We also counsel corporate clients on hiring and termination decisions concerning foreign nationals, immigration compliance, employer sanctions and anti-discrimination issues.

While our Immigration teams is highly-skilled at handling major employment-based transactions, and possesses unique knowledge and experience with global visa work, we also enjoy the opportunity to assist individual clients with family-based immigration, including green card and naturalization applications.