Karen Gabriel Moss has practiced immigration law for more than thirty years, focusing on business and family-based immigration. She represents the full spectrum of businesses from Fortune 500 companies to family businesses. Her diverse practice includes large manufacturers, technology firms, healthcare employers, major law firms, and engineering firms and family businesses. Prior to joining NGC, Karen was co-managing partner at Rosner, Ortman & Moss, a firm frequently recognized as one of the best immigration law firms in America by U.S. News & World Report.
Karen has consistently achieved positive results for her clients over time through her deep knowledge of the immigration bureaucracy, relationships with its players, and an understanding of what will and won't work within the system. She has successfully filed petitions for visas and green cards for aliens of extraordinary ability, outstanding researchers, national interest waivers, and more. Karen also has a robust family-based practice where she represents individuals applying for permanent residence for family members, applying for citizenship and maintaining permanent residence while abroad.
Karen was named “Immigration Lawyer of the Year” in 2016, and consistently has been selected by her peers as one of The Best Lawyers in the field. She previously served as AILA Ohio Chapter Liaison to USCIS and the U.S. Department of Labor. Karen has been a speaker on employment-based immigration for the Federal Bar Association, Ohio State Bar Association, Cuyahoga Bar Association and American Immigration Lawyer Association (AILA) regional seminars, as well as at business conferences. Karen has taught immigration and nationality law at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law.
Career
Member, Nicola, Gudbranson & Cooper (2017-present)
•Partner, Rosner, Ortman & Moss (2005-2017); associate (1999-2005)
Publications and interviews
•Author, ' Buy American, Hire American Takes Its Toll on Business Immigration, ' bestlawyers.com (February 2018)
•Author, ' How will the travel ban affect business in Northeast Ohio?, ' NGC Legal Insights (Summer 2017)
Speaking engagements
•Speaker, 2024 Post-Election Immigration Symposium, Global Cleveland and Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association (December 4, 2024)
•Speaker, “Trump Executive Order and the Travel Ban,” Cuyahoga County Democratic Women’s Caucus (Feb. 8, 2017)
•Speaker, “Helping the Best and the Brightest...Avoid Labor Certification: EB-1, EB-2 and NIW Filings,” AILA, Ohio Chapter, Fall CLE Conference (Oct. 7, 2016)
•Speaker, “Labor Certification,” Immigration and Naturalization Seminar, Federal Bar Association (Dec. 7, 2001)
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