International Business, Executive-Level Immigration, and ITAR Regulation Compliance

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International Business, Executive-Level Immigration, and ITAR Regulation Compliance

Establishing and Staffing Foreign Subsidiaries in the U.S. • Nonimmigrant Visas (B-1, E-1/E-2, H1-B, J-1, L-1A/L1-B) • Academic Visas • PERM Labor Certification • Permanent Residency Visas (Green Card)

Personnel decisions are an integral part of the success or failure of a U.S. subsidiary. Executive and technical personnel transfers to the United States for companies engaged in the telecommunications, information and high-tech industries, aviation, and defense sectors, are often hampered by U.S. government security regulations, causing costly delays.

The international business attorneys at Klimek Kolodney & Casale, P.C., in Washington, D.C., help corporate clients across the United States and abroad handle the myriad immigration and security concerns that must be addressed in order to bring key technical and executive staff to the U.S., or secure foreign visas for key U.S. employees who will be working abroad.

Contact the law firm of Klimek Kolodney & Casale, P.C. for legal guidance that meets your company goals. The firm's international business immigration attorneys have been providing executive immigration and international business law services for 30 years.

Establishing Foreign Subsidiaries

Klimek Kolodney & Casale, P.C. international business law attorneys assist non-U.S. parent companies in structuring subsidiary companies that meet U.S. laws and regulations. A particular strength of the firm is working with international companies whose products and/or services will be impacted by security regulations, including the Arms Export Control Act, the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), and export controls of the Bureau of Industry & Security (BIS) and Defense Security Service (DSS).

Klimek Kolodney & Casale, P.C. provides legal guidance to assist firms in complying with National Industrial Security regulations (NISPOM), export control regulations, negotiating special security agreements (SSA), export license, and developing compliance manuals to document compliance procedures.

International Human Resource Compliance and Immigration
Obtaining Nonimmigrant Visas for International Employees

One of the most complex areas of U.S. immigration law is the transfer of executive and technical staff whose work may be impacted by U.S. security regulations. The immigration lawyers at Klimek Kolodney & Casale, P.C. proactively with business clients to ensure compliance with the complex intersection between U.S. Immigration law and national security, avoiding costly errors and ensuring that companies stay current in their knowledge on export compliance.

Attorneys are available for company wide seminars and educational programs to train HR in essential export control and immigration compliance. Good compliance programs are an essential element in avoiding the mistakes that lead to civil and criminal penalties due to inadvertent violation of export control and immigration regulations.

Securing nonimmigrant visas (E-1/E-2, H1-B, J-1, L1-A/L1-B) and the immigrant visa (Green Card) for a foreign national to work lawfully in the United States is a multi-phase process involving the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS), the Department of Labor (DoL), and the Department of State (DoS). Interpretation of the same regulations by each agency can yield differing results. Success in the process requires thorough coordination across agencies.

Consular Processing: Obtaining visas through U.S. embassies and consulates overseas can be the most difficult part of an immigration process. The international business immigration lawyers at Klimek Kolodney & Casale, P.C. provide clients and their employees with private, individualized consular processing guidance and instruction with detailed information on visa process for the employee’s particular U.S. post abroad that cannot be found on official Web sites. Proper consular processing is essential to reentry into the U.S. Preparation and documentation is key to a successful and stress free experience at a U.S. foreign post.

Academic Visas

Safeguarding technology and technical information is a subset of national security. As such, export control regulations and export licensing laws sometimes effect college campuses and the immigration of faculty and students in key technology areas. Failure to meet application nondisclosure notifications and to secure export licenses for certain types of technical data and activities can carry criminal penalties.

Klimek Kolodney & Casale, P.C. helps academic institutions keep their doors open to students from around the world while at the same time meeting the country’s need to maintain secure borders.

When you have questions regarding export control and foreign nationals in the U.S., contact an international business immigration lawyer at the Washington, D.C., law firm of Klimek Kolodney & Casale, P.C..

Klimek Kolodney & Casale, P.C.

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The federal law practice of Klimek Kolodney & Casale, P.C., represents business clients locally in the Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia area; as well as large corporate clients across the U.S. doing business in such cities as San Francisco and Los Angeles, California; Dallas and Houston, Texas; New York City, New York; Chicago, Illinois; and Detroit, Michigan; and internationally for clients across Europe, Asia, South and Central America, and the Middle East.