Jewish Immigration Lawyers in USA

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Fariba Faiz Sponsor

San Francisco, CA Sponsor

Immigration, EB5 Investment Visa, H1B Visa

26 years licensed

(415) 946-8810

Immigration, EB5 Investment Visa, H1B Visa

26 years licensed

(415) 946-8810

Fariba Faiz is the founder of Fariba Faiz Law Offices PC, based out of San Francisco, California. Attorney Faiz was recognized by the Best Lawyers in American for her expertise in immigration law. Attorney Faiz is an experienced immigration attorney with a proven track record of successfully petitioning investment immigration (E-1/E-2 visas and direct and regional center EB-5 projects), employment-based and family-based immigration matters. Fariba works with employers and their employees and immigrant investors in partnership to transfer, intracompany, foreign personnel and their families to the United States. We partner with employers in various industries including start-ups, information technology, pharmaceuticals, biotech, finance, crypto, and banking sector, hospitals and healthcare providers, architectural design firms, and educational institutions with obtaining temporary (H-1, L-1, O-1, TN, E-2) and permanent residency based on employment and extraordinary ability in athletics, the arts, business or science. The occupations typically represented include researchers, scientists, physicians, engineers, IT workers, architects, graphic artists, financial analysts, fashion designers, coaches, athletes, musicians, performers, and similar creatives. Healthcare and Research clients turn to her for her vast experience with their specialized immigration needs, including obtaining H-1B cap exemptions and J-1 visa waivers. Her success is based on her approach to solving problems by engaging and immersing herself in her client's business to gain a comprehensive understanding of the organizations and industry-specific issues allowing her to give practical actionable advice. On the employee side of Ms. Faiz's practice, she assists individual employees with AC21 porting in H-1B and I-140 matters and provides consultations pertaining to termination and lay-offs and immigration consequences of the same for L-1, H-1B, TN, E, and O visa holders. Fariba is known for her holistic approach to immigration matters. Dedicated to providing streamlined and excellent service, she realizes the importance of taking the time to understand the immediate needs, clients' immigration and cultural background, overall long-term goals and case-specific issues, allowing her to give candid advice, providing the client with options and a road map for achieving results. HR Directors and administrators draw on Fariba's broad ranging experience with I-9 Compliance and investigation matters, Wage and Hour issues, employee handbook and policy and employment contract review with respect to hiring non-US personnel. Fariba Faiz and her network of trusted advisors also provide consultations to potential investors and their agents on matters such as foreign direct investment; EAR and ITAR compliance for US firms, multinationals and start-ups looking to transfer foreign personnel, or technology and services as well as regulations on foreign investments and blocked transactions proscribed by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). Ms. Faiz is a graduate of Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles and completed her bachelor's degree at University of California at Berkeley. Ms. Faiz has been a member of the California State Bar since 1998. She is admitted to practice before the United States Federal Court of the Northern District of California, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit as well as the Supreme Court of California. She is an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and previously served on the American Bar Association's Advisory Group. Ms. Faiz has presented continuing legal education courses for Sterling Education Seminars, Pincus, as well as the San Francisco Bar Association and events organized by groups the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, as well as Innovation Norway, Opinno and similar start-up tech incubators.

Jewish Lawyer Near Me - Svetlana Prizant

Svetlana Prizant Sponsor

Forest Hills, NY Sponsor

Immigration

13 years licensed

(718) 407-0871

Immigration

13 years licensed

(718) 407-0871

Svetlana Prizant, Esq., is the Managing Attorney of the firm and has personal experience in the immigration and naturalization process as an immigrant herself. Svetlana Prizant, Esq., was honored with a Super Lawyer Award of 2023, 2022, 2021 and 2020 and designated as a Rising Star by Super Lawyers Magazine in the field of Immigration Law. In 2019, she was named one of the ten best attorneys in immigration law by The Legal Practice Magazine. In 2018 she was one of the Top Forty Under Forty Honorees by the American Society of Legal Advocates and received the client satisfaction award by the American Legal Counsel Institute. Using legal experience combined with an understanding of the immigrant communities Mrs. Prizant represents, she has repeatedly obtained extraordinary results for her clients. Mrs. Prizant began her practice with the sole intent of providing one-to-one service to all her clients. Her interest in immigration law stems from her personal background as well as her belief in the essential role immigrants play and the positive contributions they make to American society. Having immigrated to the United States she has experienced first-hand all phases of the immigration and naturalization process. While in private practice in the most densely immigrant-populated area of the United States, Queens, New York, Mrs. Prizant handled immigration matters ranging from tough criminal deportations, to political asylum, complex family petitions, appeals and motions to reopen as well as all business related immigration matters. As a New York immigration defense lawyer, she has worked with immigrants from all over the world, including Eastern Europe, (Russians, Ukrainians, Uzbekistanis, Georgians, Albanians); Latin America (Colombians, Ecuadorians, Dominicans, Mexicans, El Salvadorians, Hondurans, Guatemalans, etc.); the Middle East (Egyptians, Yemenis, etc.); The Caribbean, (Haitians, Trinidadians); and The Indian Subcontinent (Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis). Defending immigrants from incredibly diverse backgrounds in the bustling melting pot that is New York City has sensitized Mrs. Prizant to the specific needs and the cultures of clients from all these regions. Mrs. Prizant is admitted in the New York Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, Second Department. She is also a weekly columnist for the Ladies’ World Magazine and Queens Ledger newspaper. Mrs. Prizant obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Queens College and her Juris Doctor from the St. John’s University. As a law student, she gained practical experience at two competitive Clinics: Asylum and Refugee Rights Clinic and The Child Advocacy Clinic.

Bruce Dizengoff Sponsor

Philadelphia, PA Sponsor

Immigration

36 years licensed

(267) 223-5862

Immigration

36 years licensed

(267) 223-5862

At the Law Offices of Dizengoff and Yost, we handle a wide variety of immigration matters. We are committed to providing our clients with the very highest caliber of legal representation in their immigration cases and equally committed to advocating relentlessly on behalf of our clients.