Getson & Schatz represented a client from Ethiopia who entered the U.S. on a nonimmigrant F-1 student visa. The client subsequently stopped attending the school for which his F-1 student visa was granted and was employed without employment authorization. The Department of Homeland Security eventually...
Our immigration lawyers had assisted a foreign national to obtain H-1B status as a medical resident working in Pennsylvania. During her H-1B employment, she met and married her U.S. Citizen husband who was also a medical resident but was working in New York. The husband...
Our Philadelphia firm represented a client from Nicaragua who entered the U.S. on a B-2 Visitor Visa. She had overstayed her visa which only permitted her to remain in the U.S. for 6 months. She eventually met her husband, a U.S. citizen, and they later...
Getson & Schatz, P.C. was contacted by our client, a postdoctoral researcher from India, regarding the self-petition of an I-140 Petition for an Alien of Extraordinary Ability. Our client and her three children initially entered the United States with H-4 visas as dependents of their...
Our client was issued a B-2 Visa in 2004 to legally come to the United States as a visitor from his home country of Burkina Faso. A B-2 Visa typically is valid for a six month stay in the U.S. and is subject to an...
Our client, a citizen of the United Kingdom, was engaged to a U.S. citizen and contacted our Philadelphia Immigration Firm regarding coming to the United States so that he could marry and live with his fianceé. Current immigration law allows for a U.S. citizen to...
Our law firm provides immigration representation to many companies and organizations throughout the United States. One of our corporate clients supplies computer software and consulting services to North American manufacturers and the U.S. federal government. The company wanted to employ a nonimmigrant as a software...
Getson & Schatz, P.C. provides immigration representation to a large hospital in Pennsylvania. The hospital needed help petitioning for a prospective H-1B employee for a change of employer. An H-1B nonimmigrant visa allows specialty occupation workers to temporarily work in the United States. There are...
Last week, an Immigration Judge in York, Pennsylvania granted our client’s green card case after a long legal battle that had kept him in jail for almost one year. Our client came to the U.S. many years ago and had a green card through his...
Getson & Schatz, P.C. provided immigration representation to a U.S. citizen who petitioned for her fiancé to obtain a K-1 nonimmigrant visa. A K-1 nonimmigrant visa allows the fiancé of a U.S. citizen to come to the United States for the purpose getting married within...
