Kelly R. Rourke

Kelly Rourke assists employers with administrative law matters, focusing her practice primarily on employment-based immigration.

She helps clients meet critical staffing needs by obtaining nonimmigrant status for foreign workers and securing and maintaining legal permanent residence for foreign nationals. She handles nonimmigrant petitions, applications for labor certification, adjustment of status and naturalization filings, consular processing matters, motions to reopen, and motions to reconsider and counsels clients Form I-9 and E-Verify matters.

Kelly offers management teams analytical, practical, and timely advice on employment matters, including occupational safety and health, employment-related discrimination complaints, and Wisconsin’s Concealed Carry Law.

• Assisted an information technology company in obtaining multiple EB-2 PERM labor certifications and I-140 approvals

• Assisted a university in obtaining EB-1 Outstanding Professor green card approval

• Assisted a paper-products manufacturer and distributor in obtaining PERM labor certification approval after a previous Department of Labor denial

• Assisted a dairy products producer in obtaining E-2 visa and L-1 petition approvals for managers and executives working intermittently

• Counseled religious institutions and employers in the healthcare, higher education, and retail industries regarding employment-related provisions of Wisconsin’s Concealed Carry Law and discrimination claims based

• Defended manufacturers and retail businesses against claims of occupational safety and health violations by OSHA