Jeffrey S. Bell has specialized in immigration law for the last 18 years. He focuses on a wide range of immigration issues relating to employers, particularly health care facilities, universities and multinational companies. Mr. Bell advises regional health care systems and Fortune 500 companies on employer related visa issues and compliance and his experience includes H-1B and L-1 visa petitions, Investor visas, J-1 physician waivers, I-9 audits, PERM applications and immigration strategic planning.
Mr. Bell is a past two term Chairman of the International Law Committee, Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association and is an often invited speaker on immigration issues at continuing education seminars and business conferences.
Order of Coif. Winner, International Law Prize. Associate Editor, Washington University Law Quarterly. Publications: New Dangers for Employers Who Hire Undocumented Workers, January 11, 2011; Polsinelli Shughart is Positioned for Immigration Law, January 3, 2011. Speaker at multiple continuing education seminars and business conferences sponsored by Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association, University of Missouri at Kansas City, Kansas Farm Bureau, U.S. Custom Harvesters and the Kansas World Trade Center, December 1, 2010. Two-term Chairman, International Law Committee, 2004-2005.