Immigration

The firm’s multilingual attorneys and staff make HLA the perfect choice for clients with immigration needs. We provide the full range of services – including, business, investor and family-based petitions. Given the firm’s emphasis on business, our niche is work and investor visas.

Family & Work Visas

Investor Visas

Our attorneys pride themselves on their ability to counsel business owners and investors on the available options and bring about an expedient, cost-efficient result.

Employment Visas

Being an international law firm focused on business clients, our immigration practice focuses on employment-based visas and investor visas. The following includes some of the most common work visas: L-1, H1-B and TN-1.  For more detailed information on a particular topic, please access the embedded links to review the numerous online articles published by our attorneys. Tambien publicamos informacion sobre los

Family Visas

Family-based visas have always constituted the foundation of immigration practice. HLA is sensitive to the special nature of family member petitions and will be to provide expert advice.

Detention/Deportation

The US government, through ICE, has detained nearly 400,000 people each year for the past three years in connection with immigration status.

Asylum

How do you qualify for asylum? You must have experienced persecution in your native country or have good reason to fear persecution if you return to your country. Persecution typically means there is a serious threat to your life or freedom which occurred because of your race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or social group.