Chandler Law Firm LLC

CHANDLER LAW FIRM, LLC, DENVER, COLORADO - A premier immigration and nationality law firm representing companies and individuals with strength, compassion and zeal.

The firm, located in downtown Denver, concentrates its practice on business-related and family immigration matters. These matters typically involve representing clients in the process of obtaining permanent residency or "green cards" and various types of nonimmigrant visas.

Firm personnel are familiar with law and regulations relating to both immigrant (persons moving permanently to the United States) and nonimmigrant (persons coming temporarily to the United States) procedures.  The process of becoming a lawful permanent resident (“green card holder”) may require getting a labor certification using the relatively new PERM process.  Many groups, however, are exempt from labor certification, including investors, persons of extraordinary ability, outstanding professors and researchers and multi-national executives and managers.  Work authorization and travel permission are important to our clients, and we assist with securing those benefits for our clients pursuing permanent residency.

There are nearly as many nonimmigrant visas as there are letters in the alphabet.  We have worked successfully with almost all of them, including B visitors, F, M, and J students and exchange visitors, H-1Bs, H-2Bs, H-3s, K fiancés, L intra-company transferees, O persons of extraordinary ability, P performers, R religious workers and Q cultural visas.  We are also called upon for assistance with TNs, as provided for by the North American Trade Agreement.

Family-related immigration issues, involving non-U.S. citizens brought into a family unit, as in a marriage or an adoption, are also handled by our firm, as is naturalization.  We see many clients from the time they enter as visitors until, years later, they are sworn-in as naturalized United States citizens.

The firm has worked with persons and employees from all over the world, thereby developing expertise and knowledge specific to persons from certain countries, including Canadians and Mexicans, who may be eligible for "TN" status pursuant to the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Whether a client is overseas and considering alternative methods of coming to the United States for the first time or has lived as a lawful permanent resident in the United States for years and is considering the possibility of naturalization, Chandler Law Firm, LLC can help. We enjoy the process of getting to know our clients, developing an immigration plan for them and then working to ensure that the plan becomes a reality.

NEWS

USCIS TO BEGIN ACCEPTING H-1B PETITIONS ON APRIL 1

On April 1, USCIS will begin accepting H-1B petitions subject to the 2011 fiscal year cap of 65,000. Petitions relating to current H-1B workers do not count against the cap.


H-2B VISAS REMAIN AVAILABLE FOR WORK COMMENCING PRIOR TO APRIL 1, 2010


ARTICLES

Time for Change

Immigration has created serious problems for the United States but not for the reasons that most Americans identify: not because huge numbers of undocumented folks are invading our country and stealing jobs, not because they are abusing our welfare system, not because they don't pay taxes and not because they commit crimes with abandon.

Immigrants, Welfare and Taxes

These are tough economic times, and tax season makes it even harder. Vitriolic talk and finger-pointing at alleged sources of our economic distress abound. Immigrants are a common target. “They,” say anti-immigration advocates, “have invaded our country, don’t pay taxes and collect welfare.” Is there any truth to such bold, inflammatory statements?