Overview
To compete effectively in the global marketplace, automotive businesses must recruit, retain and transfer foreign employees. Honigman’s business immigration lawyers are active members of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and are highly skilled in managing the complex and ever-changing immigration processes to obtain temporary and permanent work authorizations in the United States for employees of national and international automotive-related companies. We are experienced in counseling employers on immigration laws and regulations, including:
- Form I-9 and other immigration compliance issues
- Counseling companies on how corporate changes such as reorganizations, downsizings, and reductions in force impact immigration matters
- PERM Labor Certification
- First employment-based preference immigrant petitions for multinational managers/executives, outstanding researchers and extraordinary ability aliens
- Adjustment of Status and Consular Processing
- Intracompany Transferee L-1A and L-1B individual and blanket petitions
- Professional Employee H-1B petitions and Labor Condition Application compliance
- E-2 Treaty Investor petitions and consulate registration
- O-1 Alien of Extraordinary Ability petitions
- Transferring U.S., Canadian, and Mexican employees under the North American Free Trade Agreement
- Foreign business visitor entry requirements outside of the U.S.