Kathleen M Peregoy

Expert in these Jurisdictions

New Jersey

Pennsylvania

United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

United States District Court for the District of New Jersey

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Practice Areas

Immigration and Global Mobility

Labor and Employment

Career

Kathleen M. Peregoy is a highly accomplished immigration attorney in Connell Foley LLP's Corporate Immigration and Global Mobility practice. Prior to joining the firm, Kathleen was a partner at Dornbaum & Peregoy, where for the past 28 years, she focused her practice on immigration and nationality matters, particularly employment-based immigration and international transfers. She has been particularly successful in global mobility matters during the COVID-19 pandemic, which resulted in international travel bans imposed by the Administration, and Embassy/Consular office closures that prevented the transfer to the U.S. of professionals at all levels and all industries, which constrained U.S. employer operations for most of this period. During the pandemic, she has performed particularly complex work to secure national interest exceptions/waivers of the travel bans/visas for high-level executives in the food supply, pharmaceutical, and construction/infrastructure industries with noted achievements in securing entry for executives and managers responsible for COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing from U.S. Embassies/Consular offices worldwide.

On the domestic U.S. side, while significantly expanding the practice since joining Connell Foley, Kathleen concentrates her work in PERM Labor Certification, priority worker filings in the Extraordinary Ability, National Interest Waiver, Outstanding Researcher and Professor, and Corporate Transferee categories and other business classifications. She provides advice and consultation for numerous Fortune 500 and emerging technology companies in the following sectors: biotechnology, chemical, higher education, engineering (environmental/power), alternative energy, construction, financial services (accounting/auditing, insurance, and investment banks), health care, pharmaceuticals, information technology, telecommunications, and semiconductors. In each case, Kathleen assists employers with the domestic and international transfer of foreign personnel, including executives, managers, and other highly skilled professionals, and individuals of extraordinary and exceptional ability in the sciences, arts, education, business, and athletics.

Kathleen has lectured and published extensively on commercial and immigration law topics. In addition, she has been recognized by several well-respected publications for his accomplishments in the areas of global mobility and immigration law.

Professional Memberships

New Jersey State Bar Association

Past Chair, Immigration, Naturalization and Americanism Section

American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA ), New Jersey Chapter

Committee Chair (Customs and Border Protection)

New Jersey State Bar Foundation

Member, Co-Sponsorship Committee (Grant Programs and Administration) for 25+ years

American Bar Association

Berkley College

Member, New York/New Jersey Legal Studies Advisory Board (1999-present)

New Jersey Women Lawyers Association (NJWLA)

Pennsylvania State Bar Association

Society For Human Resource Management (SHRM)

Member and Regular Lecturer and Presenter, Garden State Chapter

Publications

Quoted, "Hiring from a Global Labor Pool"

New Jersey Business Magazine, 11.02.2021

Quoted, "What Businesses Need to Know about Changes to H-1B Visas and More"

New Jersey Business Today, 02.08.2021

Education

Awards