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

H-1Bs AND H-2Bs AVAILABLE AS OF NOVEMBER 27, 2009

As of November 27, 2009, 59,000 cap-subject H-1B petitions had been filed for employment commencing in fiscal year 2010, which began October 1, 2009. USCIS has approved a sufficient number of H-1B petitions for aliens with advanced degrees to meet the “advanced degree exemption” of 20,000 from the annual cap on H-1B visas. H-1B petitions now filed on behalf of aliens with advanced degrees will count toward the annual, general cap of 65,000. H-2B visas are still available for winter season work. 24,000 beneficiaries have been approved, a number considerably less than the 33,000 total allocated to the first half of the fiscal year.


DEPT. OF STATE VISA BULLETIN SHOWS LIMITED GREEN CARD AVAILABILITY

The Department of State’s November, 2009 Visa Bulletin shows significant retrogression of visa availability in employment-based categories of prospective immigrants, the result of higher demand for visas in all categories.


ARTICLES

Acceptance

In these tough times, we need to work extra hard at maintaining our goodness towards others and avoid being unreasonably suspicious and negative about immigrants. Extend a hand or a smile to someone who is different.

Naturalization: The Final and Greatest Reward

It is not easy to become a United States citizen. Those of us who claim that status simply because we were born here tend to take our citizenship for granted. We shouldn't. It is a gift for which we should be grateful; one that is coveted by people from every corner of the world.