25 years of business immigration law experience

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

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, 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.”  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.  Only 8% of California immigration attorneys are State Bar certified specialists.

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, 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.

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

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

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

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

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

·      National Interest Waivers.

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

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

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

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

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

·      Strategy evaluation of deportation, removal, arrest and detention, and political asylum matters, and referral to the best Bay Area lawyers who practice exclusively in those areas.

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

·      Visas for professional athletes.

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

·      Complex citizenship cases.

·     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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