25 years of business immigration law experience

The Law Offices of James A. Bach has decades of experience providing trusted legal services such as H-1B visas, PERM labor certifications, EB-1, religious visas, and the entire range of employment- and family-based immigration solutions.

Our firm represents both corporate and individual clients, and has the experience and capacity to handle a large volume of immigration cases, while providing the highest level of service and personal attention to each person we represent.

We provide comprehensive counseling and representation to businesses employing foreign-born professionals, families seeking reunification in the U.S. (including all manner of marriage-based petitions), and complex analysis and solutions in all other areas of immigration and nationality law.

Our firm 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.

Our expertise includes:

·       Permanent residence (“green card”) based on PERM labor certifications.

·       Nonimmigrant (temporary) visa petitions and applications for H-1B professionals, L-1 intracompany transferrees, Canadian and Mexican professionals using the NAFTA treaty, and E-2 investors.

·       The entire alphabet soup of temporary visas, including TN, E-3, E-1, R-1, P, Q, O, and K visas.

·      Expedited green card status for Transferring Managers and Executives, Outstanding Professors and Outstanding Researchers, and Persons with Extraordinary Ability in the Arts and Sciences.

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

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

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

·      Visas and permanent residence status for Doctors, Nurses and other health professionals.

·      Permanent residence based on the "National Interest."

·        Labor certification, H-1B, 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.

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

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

·        Complex citizenship cases.

·        Litigation in all courts.

Law Offices Of James A. Bach

100 Bush Street, Nineteenth Floor

San Francisco, California 94104

(415) 248-3100 
 

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