Marcela Bermudez focuses her practice on business immigration. Marcela represents multi-national corporations and companies, as well as individual clients including scientists, researchers, professional nurses and artists, seeking employment-based immigrant and nonimmigrant classifications. Marcela has also represented individual clients seeking family-based immigrant and nonimmigrant benefits. Marcela also focuses on Global Business Immigration. Marcela works with multi-national corporations to strategize and facilitate the transfer of its employees and their dependents for temporary assignments abroad, including obtaining the necessary residence and work permits, visas and post-entry registration. Areas of Concentration · Employment-based nonimmigrant visas (H-1B, L-1, O-1) · National Interest Waivers · Schedule A - Professional Nurses · Permanent labor certification applications Professional & Community Involvement · Pro-Bono Volunteer, Advocates for Children · Member, American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) - NY Chapter Corporate Practice Committee - NY Chapter Citizenship Day Committee · Member, New York State Bar Association Internship · Legal Intern, Authors Guild, January - May 2000 · Judicial Intern, Honorable Nicholas Figeroa, New York Supreme Court, Criminal Term, New York, NY, June - August 1999 · Legal Intern, Catholic Legal Immigration Network, January - May 1999 |