The practice

Five disciplines

Descriptions here are general and illustrative — this is a fictional demonstration site, and nothing on it is legal advice. Real matters get real memos, written on their actual facts.

Visas & Global Mobility

For the executive, the researcher, the artist, the engineer: the right route into the United States, chosen deliberately and run on a published timeline.

Most mobility problems are not document problems. They are sequencing problems: an offer letter with a start date, a lease ending in one country, a school year beginning in another, and a government queue that answers to none of them. We begin with the calendar, not the form.

We advise on the full range of employment-based and achievement-based routes for individuals, and we are candid about trade-offs between speed, durability, and flexibility. Where two paths exist, you will see both on paper, priced, with our recommendation and its reasoning.

Within this discipline

Route selection memos comparing the realistic options in writing
Employment- and achievement-based petitions for individuals
Transfers of key personnel within international companies
Consular strategy, interview preparation, and travel planning while a matter is pending
Status maintenance, extensions, and changes for professionals already in the U.S.

Founders & Investors

A founder's immigration file and their company's story are the same document told twice. We keep the two versions consistent, and we keep both moving.

Founders sit in the least-mapped corner of immigration practice: part employee, part owner, part investor, often all three in the same tax year. Routes exist, but they reward preparation that starts before incorporation papers are signed, not after.

We work alongside your corporate counsel, not around them. Equity structure, board composition, and funding sequence all cast shadows on an immigration file; our job is to make sure none of those shadows falls where a decision-maker will be looking.

Within this discipline

Pre-incorporation planning for founders who have not yet formed a U.S. entity
Investor- and entrepreneur-oriented routes, assessed candidly against the facts
Coordination with corporate counsel on equity, governance, and role design
Immigration diligence language for financing rounds and employment agreements
Key-hire mobility planning for the first employees who follow the founder

Family & Residency

A relocation succeeds when the whole household lands together. We plan for the family as a single matter, because that is how a family experiences it.

The professional's visa is often the easy part. The harder questions arrive quietly: a spouse's right to work, a child's school enrollment date, a parent who visits for six months and wants to stay for more of them. Households move at the speed of the slowest document, so we schedule the slowest document first.

Permanent residency is a strategy, not an event. For families we map the realistic sequence early, including the uncomfortable parts: queues, quiet years, and the moments when travel becomes complicated. Families who see the whole map make better decisions at every fork.

Within this discipline

Derivative status and work authorization planning for spouses and partners
Children's status across school enrollment, age thresholds, and travel
Family-based permanent residency strategy and sequencing
Long-stay planning for visiting parents and relatives
Household timeline management across every open matter

Citizenship

Naturalization is the one immigration filing people attempt casually, and the one whose questions reach furthest back. We prepare it like the capstone it is.

A citizenship application reviews an entire life in this country: every trip, every address, every tax year, every answer given on every earlier form. The preparation is an audit, and the audit is the value; surprises belong in our conference room, not at an interview.

For clients holding or acquiring more than one nationality, we coordinate with counsel in the other country before anything is filed anywhere. Some countries welcome dual citizens; some tolerate them; some quietly do not. That research happens first, in writing.

Within this discipline

Naturalization readiness reviews: the full-file audit before any filing
Physical-presence and travel-history analysis across the qualifying years
Coordination with foreign counsel on dual-nationality consequences
Interview preparation and attendance
Certificate, records, and post-naturalization documentation matters

Cross-Border Tax Coordination

Immigration timing creates tax consequences, and tax planning has immigration consequences. We coordinate the two calendars so neither surprises the other.

The most expensive week in a relocation is often the one nobody planned: the week residency began for tax purposes. We do not give tax advice, and we say so plainly. What we do is refuse to let an immigration calendar be built in ignorance of the tax calendar sitting next to it.

Before a move, we bring your tax advisors into the sequencing conversation, or introduce vetted specialists in both countries if you have none. Arrival dates, departure dates, and the windows between them are decisions, not accidents, when the right people are in the room early enough.

Within this discipline

Pre-arrival coordination between immigration counsel and tax advisors
Introductions to cross-border tax specialists in both jurisdictions
Timeline design around residency-start and residency-end consequences
Coordination on reporting obligations that follow an international move
Exit and return planning for clients whose careers keep crossing borders

Not sure which door?

Most matters touch more than one discipline. Bring us the life, not the label; the map will sort the rest.

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