Behind Every Great Global Brand Launch in America Is a Great Immigration Attorney
SMA Law Firm2026-07-13T10:02:17-04:00Joe and The Juice. citizenM. Lululemon. WeTransfer. Steve Maggi Helped Bring Them All to the U.S.
When a multinational company decides to expand into the United States, the business plan gets all the attention. The real estate team scouts locations. The marketing team builds the launch campaign. The PR […]
The EB-1A extraordinary ability visa is under attack and the battle is now in the courts. How will this affect future petitions?
SMA Law Firm2026-02-03T09:52:50-05:00In Mukherji v. Miller, a federal judge in Nebraska ruled that USCIS has been applying an unlawful standard to EB-1A petitions since 2010.
The facts: A journalist met 5 of the 10 regulatory criteria. She only needed 3. USCIS denied her anyway, claiming her recognition was “not sustained” because her major awards came before 2016.
The […]
Chinese students currently studying in the U.S. are feeling scared about their future
SMA Law Firm2025-06-18T16:59:06-04:00Over a quarter of a million Chinese students currently studying in the U.S. are feeling increasingly uncertain about their future. Their education—and, in many cases, their long-term aspirations—now hang in the balance due to this administration’s unilateral efforts to “decouple” from China on a broader geopolitical level.
What many observers fail to realize is the […]
What is an E2 Visa?
SMA Law Firm2024-11-04T14:27:17-05:00The E2 visa is a type of U.S. visa that allows individuals from treaty countries to enter, reside, and work in the United States based on their investment in a U.S. business. To qualify for this visa, the individual must:
- Be a national of a treaty country: The U.S. has treaties with various countries […]
The A to Z of US Immigration
SMA Law Firm2024-11-05T13:14:01-05:00U.S. Immigration law is an alphabet soup of visa categories and concepts, and I thought it would be interesting to try to go from A to Z and see if I could come up with something for each letter. Here goes!
A: Alien – This is the term used for any foreign national involved in […]
The E-2 Investor Visa Roadblock
SMA Law Firm2024-11-05T14:06:15-05:00The E-2 Investor visa provides opportunities for foreign nationals to put on their entrepreneurial hat and start a business, invest in that business and get a visa to run their new business in the U.S. For those reasons, I call this visa the “Entrepreneurial visa.” Still, it is technically called the “Treaty Investor visa” because […]
Tech layoffs and the 60 day grace period
SMA Law Firm2024-11-05T14:41:34-05:00An impromptu race for new employment has begun nationwide in the U.S. tech sector. With Twitter, Meta and Amazon all announcing massive layoffs, tens of thousands of workers, many highly skilled engineers, are scrambling for new employment. Most people have experienced the stress of not knowing where their next paycheck comes from. Now imagine […]
A Brief Respite from the Madness: Consular Interviews for Certain Visas Waived for 2022
SMA Law Firm2023-12-18T10:07:46-05:00The good news on the U.S. immigration front has been few and far between since Covid-19 shut down the world in March of 2021. It’s hard to fathom all the barriers that the U.S. government created in that lapse of time, including country-specific bars to entry which kept millions of people from traveling to […]
US Government’s Discrimination of Foreign Nationals in 2021
SMA Law Firm2024-12-02T13:52:12-05:00We watch the news each day and we see a common theme in America: Marginalized groups want what they deserve: to receive the same treatment and protections as allowed by law, which translates into equal opportunities. The reality is that minorities and women do not receive the same treatment and that the law does […]