30 years of continuous immigration legal experience

Certified Specialist in Immigration and Nationality Law, State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization

Located in the heart of the San Francisco Financial District, the A/V rated immigration Law Offices of James A. Bach has decades of experience providing trusted legal services such as H-1B visas, PERM labor certifications, EB-1, and the entire range of employment- and family-based immigration solutions.

Less than 8% of California immigration attorneys are certified by the State Bar Board of Legal Specialization.

Our firm represents both corporations and individuals in all aspects of immigration law, and is dedicated to providing the highest level of service and personal attention to each of our clients.

Mr. Bach has been preparing H-1B and labor certification applications since 1980, and has been granted the highest A/V rating by Martindale-Hubbell.*  This rating “identifies a lawyer with very high to preeminent legal ability” reflecting “expertise, experience, integrity and overall professional excellence” and “the highest professional and ethical standards.”  Mr. Bach is also included in the 2009 Martindale-Hubbell Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers.  While we appreciate this recognition, we also see it as a benchmark to live up to on a daily basis and in every single case. 

Mr. Bach is certified as a Legal Specialist in Immigration and Nationality Law by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization, and was one of the first certified specialists when the certification program was started in the late 1980's.  Currently there are 161,000 active members of the State Bar, and only 147 are Certified Specialists in Immigration and Nationality Law.  Mr. Bach serves on the California State Bar Immigration and Nationality Advisory Commission, and helps to write and grade the immigration specialty exam. 

The firm provides comprehensive counseling to businesses employing foreign-born professionals, families seeking reunification in the U.S. (including all types of marriage-based petitions and waivers), and complex analysis and solutions in all other areas of immigration and nationality law.  The firm's clients include multinational and local companies in a broad range of industries and sectors including all engineering fields, software, IT consulting, health care, biotechnology, colleges, architecture, financial services, publishing, manufacturing, construction, food services, and transportation.  Our expertise includes:

·       Permanent residence (“green card”) based on PERM labor certifications.  Mr. Bach has been preparing labor certifications continuously since 1980.

·   Visas for H-1B professionals, L-1 intracompany transferees, TN Canadian and Mexican professionals, and E-2 investors.

·    I-9 and LCA audits and civil prosecution defense.

·     Visas and permanent residence status for doctors, nurses and other health professionals.

·     Comprehensive counseling and planning for high technology companies to provide immigration benefits to professionals and managers from all over the world.

·    H-1B and permanent status for primary care physicians working in medically underserved areas.

·  Labor certification for specialist physicians from Canada, and other doctors who are not subject to the J-1 two-year return requirement.

·     The entire alphabet of temporary visas, including K, E, R, P, Q, and O visas.

·     Expedited green card status for "Transferring Managers and Executives."

·     Expedited Immigration for Outstanding Researchers and Professors (EB-1).

·      EB-1 green cards for extraordinary scientists, artists, athletes, and entertainers.

·      National Interest Waivers.

·      Representation in I-9 audits and investigations.

·     Marriage-based immigration, and immigration based on other family relationships.

·      Waiver of the J-1 two-year return requirement.

·     Labor certification, H-1B petitions, and L-1 cases in all fifty states.

·     Adjustment of Status applications in USCIS offices throughout the United States, and applications for Consular Processing of Immigrant and Nonimmigrant Visas at U.S. Embassies and Consulates throughout the world.

·     Visas and green cards for Ministers of Religion and Religious Workers.

·      Visas for professional athletes.

·     Waivers of inadmissibility, including waivers for alleged misrepresentation based on hardship to family members.

·      Naturalization.

·     Administrative appeals.

·    Litigation in all courts.

Law Offices Of James A. Bach

Shell Building

100 Bush Street, Nineteenth Floor

San Francisco, California 94104

(415) 248-3100 
 

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