Manager/Executive visa for the Treaty Countries

If your company has a subsidiary in any of the Treaty countries listed here:
https://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/fees/treaty.html

Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Australia, Austria Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belgium Benin Bhutan Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Canada Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad China Comoros Congo, Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Côte d'Ivoire Croatia Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic East Timor Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Fiji Gabon Gambia Ghana Greek Cypriot Administration of Southern Cyprus Grenada Guinea Guinea-Bissau Haiti Hong Kong Indonesia Iraq Ireland Jamaica Kenya Kuwait Latvia Lesotho Liberia Libya Lithuania Madagascar Malawi Maldives Mali Malta Mauritania Mauritius Mozambique Namibia Nepal Netherlands Niger Nigeria Norway Oman Poland Portugal Qatar Rwanda Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines São Tomé and Príncipe Saudi Arabia Senegal Sierra Leone Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa Spain Sri Lanka Sudan Suriname Swaziland Taiwan Tanzania Togo Uganda United Arab Emirates United Kingdom Vanuatu Vietnam Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe,

Your employees may be eligible for a E visa.  Over the years the United States has signed many different commercial treaties that are aimed to improve Friendship, Commerce and Navigation between the US and other countries.  The treaties advance the business environment, encourage investments and trade.

Nationals of countries with which the US has signed Bilateral or Unilateral Treaties may enjoy certain visa privileges.  Such privileges include E-1, E-2 and E-2 visa.  Managers, executives or any other employees may apply for E visas and enter the US without prior USCIS approval.

You may find extensive instructions on how to get an E visa from your country on our website or the Department of State website.  In this posting, our immigration attorneys in Washington, DC will tell you about difficulties associated with getting the E visa.

Some businesses may decide to use E visa instead of more complicated L-1 visa program. The L-1 visa requirements can be found here (http://www.ilexlaw.com/l-visas/). This visa is pretty complex and expensive. It does require a prior USCIS approval, which is not guaranteed.

L-1 visa allows L-1 visa beneficiaries apply for a green card pretty easily. The important distinction between the E visa and L-1 visa is that E visa is not a dual intent visa. That means that E visa beneficiaries when get to the US are NOT advised to apply for a green card. The whole purpose of the Commercial Treaties is to promote commerce, not immigration to the United States.  Thus, if your company decides to save money, time and administrative resource and file an E visa instead of L-1 visa, please take the above fact into consideration. Our experienced immigration attorneys have deep knowledge of little nuances of immigration law that help international companies strategize their hiring plans.

If the L-1 employee later ask his employer to apply for a green card, the E visa will become a problem.  If the company applies for a green card right away, the E visa petition will be deemed fraudulent.  It may result in unnecessary problems for the US company and its foreign subsidiaries.

If the foreign employee is not to be placed with a US company permanently but the purpose of the E visa is to meet temporary business needs, the E visa is a perfect solution.

Please consult our immigration attorneys in Washington, DC for free on any business immigration queries.  Our email is info@ilexlaw.com. The phone number 202.367.9138. Website: www.ilexlaw.com

Tips for Choosing The Right Immigration Lawyer

Choosing an immigration attorney is not easy.  For most immigrants in the US, their immigration status is more important than any other status, including the marital one.  People search carefully for the right immigration specialist to ensure the immigration process is taken care of by a professional. There are some many factors to consider while choosing an attorney: experience, language, price, location, communication, responsiveness, accessibility and many others.  For example, some immigrants choose immigration attorneys only in his or her country’s community, others prefer to stay away from their compatriots as far as possible.  Regardless of what category you are in, below are discussed the main points to consider while choosing the best immigration attorney in the US.

Most articles available online first mention factors like membership in AILA (American Immigration Lawyers Association).  While it is important, most decent attorneys are already the members of AILA and even if they are not, it does not mean they cannot do a great job for their clients.   Something else to consider is that most inexperienced lawyers jump on AILA right away for the sole reason of accessing the research tools. They merely do it because they do not have relevant experience and rely on themessage board and other information provided by AILA.

Based on the feedback that our company has analyzed, the most important factor while looking for an immigration lawyer is feeling comfortable working with a particular immigration attorney assigned to your case.  Both corporate and family immigration include a great deal of confidential information that may be hard to share with a person you just met.  An attorney should be trustworthy and friendly. A client should not be afraid of contacting his attorney with a related to his case question.

Second is experience. The right immigration lawyer must have experience handling cases like yours. It does not matter how friend an attorney is, if he cannot answer your questions, it is probably a bad sign. However, most immigration lawyers collaborate and work as law firms.A junior immigration lawyer should be able to get proper guidance regarding casework from a senior attorney or partner.  Also, in the immigration law field, experienced immigration paralegals perform a great deal of legal work and attorneys simply review it. That is why we put feeling comfortable and secure as number one priority while hiring a counsel, although experience is very important.

Third, is responsiveness. Even if you hired the most experienced and nice lawyer out there, if it takes him a week to respond to your email or return a call, it probably will take a long time to file your case. For the reasons stated above (paralegals and distribution of casework in established law firms), the best immigration attorneys should be able to answer the phone and spend some time drafting emails to the retained clients when they are asked to.

 At ilexlaw we pay close attention to these 3 principles and many others. We built this list based on the clients’ feedback that was shared with us. Most of them told us that they chose ilexlaw because of one or more of the factors above.We communicate with our clients, we specialize in immigration and we deliver successful results.