Immigration

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Provided by Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Dorsey’s immigration practice group focuses almost exclusively on employment-based immigration matters for highly skilled foreign nationals, serving both large and small employers in their efforts to retain the best talent. Dorsey represents both high volume corporate petitioners and individual foreign national physicians, scientists, and entrepreneurs seeking green cards. Dorsey handles the full gamut of employment-based work, from H-1B, L-1, and TN visas to O-1 and EB-1(a) Extraordinary Ability petitions and everything in between. The firm serves clients in healthcare, pharmaceuticals, life sciences, IT / engineering, food, agribusiness, and manufacturing.

Dorsey has a national reputation in healthcare immigration, currently serving as principal outside immigration counsel for a highly ranked Minnesota-based hospital system. The work for this client and other healthcare and hospital system clients means Dorsey has developed significant expertise in the unique issues faced by foreign physician immigrants. Dorsey is one of just a handful of firms nationally that handles U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) research-based J-1 waivers for physicians. The firm also processes Conrad 30 and DHHS clinical J-1 waivers, file Physician National Interest Waivers (P-NIWs), H-1Bs for Physicians of National Renown, and O-1 physician cases, and work on MUA/HPSA issues. The firm also regularly represents individual physicians at leading academic health centers across the U.S.