Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

Eckert Seamans provides immigration related services to employers. The Immigration Group assists employers with structuring hiring programs and managing immigration matters, including large caseloads, in order to enable employers to compete more effectively in the global marketplace for the best professional talent. The Immigration Group focuses on providing strategic immigration planning, analysis and solutions that respond to the specific needs of our clients.

We help employers maneuver through complex and nuanced immigration laws and regulations, and navigate through the multitude of procedures of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Department of Labor, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in connection with the employment of foreign individuals.
Our services include providing advice on:

• Securing employment-based temporary visas, including H-1B specialty occupation visas.
• L-1 visas for cross border intra-company transfer of key personnel.
• E-1/E-2 Treaty Trader/Treaty Investors nonimmigrant visas.
• J-1 waivers, nonimmigrant, and immigrant visa matters for Foreign Medical Graduates.
• TN visas for Canadian and Mexican professionals.
• O and P visas for internationally renowned business leaders, athletes and artists.
• Permanent Residence through corporate sponsorship.
• EB-5 Immigrant Investor visas.
•  Compliance with federal immigration and labor laws affecting the employment of foreign nationals.

In addition, we assist employers with I-9 and related compliance matters, including employer verification policies, I-9 related policies and procedures, in-house training sessions and internal audits; provide counsel and defense to businesses involved in government audits and raids; and we regularly perform immigration-related due diligence for merger and acquisition matters.

Our immigration attorneys work closely with the firm’s other practice groups in order to provide comprehensive representation to meet all of our clients’ legal needs.

At Eckert Seamans, we consider ourselves to be part of our clients' teams and help answer the daily challenges confronting them.

Our policy is simple: Eckert Seamans values the breadth of perspective and experience that comes with a diverse complement of lawyers and staff. We are a firm with national and international clients and a practice which takes our lawyers into cities and courts across this country and abroad. A diverse workforce not only provides a better understanding of the communities and business environments in which we and our clients operate, but also makes our firm a better place to work. Diversity is, and will continue to be, important to our success.

We actively and continuously examine our policies and practices in order to strengthen those that promote inclusiveness. We work to establish “best practices” in the area of diversity just as we do in all areas of our business. As part of our efforts we also look to best practices developed at other businesses that we can apply at Eckert Seamans.

Eckert Seamans is committed to developing and maintaining a diverse workforce of lawyers and staff. We will continue to work hard to make our workforce reflective of the communities which we serve.

In order to meet our goals, our firm has established a Diversity Committee, which includes lawyers (both members and associates) from a variety of offices and practice groups. The Diversity Committee also includes a member of the firm’s Executive Committee, leading members of our practice groups and managing partners at our offices. The Diversity Committee is charged with coordinating recruitment and retention of female and minority attorneys as well as the development and implementation of policies which foster diversity at all levels of the firm. It works closely with the firm’s Hiring, Associate and Executive Committees.