The Immigration Group at Frost Brown Todd focuses its practice on assisting United States employers in securing work visas and permanent resident ("green card") status for their foreign national employees. However, a diverse group of professionals, researchers, professors, physicians, athletes, and entertainers also regularly retain the Immigration Group to handle their individual employment-based immigration cases.

The FBT Immigration Group is truly a full-service team that meets all of our clients’ immigration needs. As part of our full-service capability, the Immigration Group has five core practice areas:

1. Employment-Based Immigration
2. Health Care Practice
3. Trial and Hearings Practice
4. Immigration Consulting and Training
5. Family-Based Immigration and Naturalization

Employment-Based Immigration
The Immigration Group attorneys are skilled in all facets of Employment-Based immigration. Our attorneys serve as lead immigration counsel for Fortune 500™ companies as well as privately owned and start-up companies. Within the broad scope of Employment-Based immigration our attorneys serve our clients in the preparation and filing of the following types of employment-based temporary visa cases:

• E-1/E-2 (treaty trader/investor) visas
• H-1B (specialty occupation) visas
• H-3 (trainee) visas
• J-1 (exchange visitor) visas
• L-1 (intra-company transferee) visas
• O-1 (extraordinary ability) visas
• P-1 (athlete/artist/entertainer) visas
• Q (cultural exchange) visas
• R (religious worker) visas
• TN (Trade NAFTA professional) visas

Additionally, our attorneys also assist employers and individuals in obtaining the following types of non-work visas:

• B-1/B-2 (business visitor/tourist) visas
• F-1 (student) visas
• J-1 (exchange visitor) visas
• M (vocational school) visas

Finally, Frost Brown Todd’s Immigration Group assists clients with all phases of the Employment-Based Permanent Residence process including the following:

• Labor certification cases, including Reduction in Recruitment, conventional, and special handling labor certifications
• Extraordinary Ability Immigrant Petitions
• Outstanding Researcher/Professor Immigrant Petitions
• National Interest Waiver Petitions
• Multi-National Manager and Executive Immigrant Petitions
• Applications for Permanent Residence and its Ancillary Benefits

Health Care Practice
Our Immigration Group assists health care companies in securing foreign national employees. Our services in this area include the following:

• Assisting Foreign Nurses Through The Visa Screen and Immigrant Visa Application Processes
• Assisting Foreign Medical Graduates Doctors to Secure Waivers of the J-1 two-year Home Residence Requirement
• Assisting Doctors or other Health Care Professionals to Obtain Employment Authorization Assisting Health Care Professionals with the Permanent Residence Process, either through traditional Labor Certifications or National Interest Waiver petitions

Trial & Hearings Practice
Many of our attorneys are experts at arguing matters before the various courts and triers of fact throughout the immigration process, such as the U.S. Immigration Court, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), the Executive Office for Immigration Review, the U.S. District Court, and U.S. Consulates around the world. As part of its trial and hearings practice, the Immigration Group has overseen resolutions for the following types of matters:

• Asylum Cases and Hearings
• Removal Hearings (deportation defense)
• Appellate Hearings at the BIA
• Employment-Based and Family-Based Permanent Residence Interviews
• Naturalization Interviews
• Visa Applications at U.S. Consulates: We handle applications for immigrant and all non-immigrant visa categories at all U.S. Consulates and travel to U.S. consulates around the world to represent foreign nationals before U.S. Department of State officials, as needed

Immigration Consultant & Training
Another area of expertise for our Immigration Group is its Immigration Consulting and Training practice. Our attorneys provide our clients with guidance and advice on a myriad of topics each and every day. Among the topics upon which our attorneys can consult or provide training in this area include:

• Solving Employer I-9 dilemmas
• Assisting Employers to design and implement Self-Audit programs
• Providing training on the proper completion and retention of I-9 documents
• Assisting Employers in Defending Against Government I-9 audits

Family-Based Immigration & Naturalization
Finally, in addition to assisting employers in the region and around the country with their immigration needs, our Immigration Group also provides services to individuals in our communities as well. The Group’s family-based immigration practice consists of the following types of cases:

• K-1/K-3 (Fiancé/Fiancée) Visas
• V-1 (Relative) Visas
• Spousal Immigrant Petitions
• Immigrant Petitions by other U.S. Citizen and Permanent Resident relatives
• Permanent Resident Applications based on employment or family relationships
• Adjustment of status and Immigrant Visa Applications
• Naturalization applications
• Derivative citizenship claims