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Immigration Law Success Stories
May 25, 2010

Our immigration law firm represents a major Hospital in Pennsylvania that employs over 10,000 individuals.  As part of our practice we assist the Hospital in sponsoring medical residents for H-1B status.  Due to certain timing issues, 5 medical residents needed a 6 day extension of H-1B status in order to complete their medical residency program with the Hospital.  Our firm filed the H-1B extension petitions which were approved significantly in advance of the expiration date of the H-1B status.  This provided the medical residents sufficient time to file another H-1B extension petition with new employers to continue their work authorized status in the United States.
Filed under: H-1B Specialty Occupation Visas



Our immigration lawyers in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania successfully processed a H-1B Cap Subject Petition for a Software Engineer working for a start-up telecommunications company in New Jersey.  The company's proprietary software enables telephone calls to be made over the Internet, including through mobile phones.  We provided extensive documentation of the bona fide non-speculative nature of the job offer by providing evidence of the Company's business operations, finances, customer contracts and invoices, and the nature of the Software Engineer position.  Whenever a H-1B Petition is being processed for a start-up company it is necessary to provide the Immigration Service proof that the company has the ability to offer the foreign national sufficient employment at the speciality occupation level.
Filed under: H-1B Specialty Occupation Visas


May 17, 2010

Our firm recently received green card approvals for the principal alien and derivative spouse and children based upon approval of a Labor Certification Application.  Our firm had been retained following approval of the Labor Certification to complete the I-140 and I-485 processing.  The derivative family members had failed to timely file an extension of H-4 status.  Untimely requests for extension of H-4 status were filed with the Immigration Service and the late H-4 extension of status requests were granted.  In filing the I-485 applications we pointed out to the Immigratino Service that the approval of the untimely filed H-4 extensions effectively caused the derivative spouse and children to maintain a continuously lawful status since entry into the United States making them eligible for adjustment of status under Section 245(a) of the Immigration & Nationality Act.  Upon the priority date of the Labor Certification becoming current the green card applications of all family members were approved.
Filed under: PERM Labor Certification


May 16, 2010

Our law firm has received another approval notice for an H-1B cap case that we filed on April 1, 2010 for a Secondary Market Coordinator, a position involving the analysis of mortgages, rates, and pricing for loans for the purpose of selling such mortgages into the "secondary market" to large financial institutions such as banks, pension funds, and other institutional investors.  The petitioning company is based in Pennsylvania and is a nationally recognized company that has closed billions of dollars of loans over the last decade. The beneficiary employee of this H-1B petition will be permitted to continue working pursuant to an approved program of OPT (Optional Practical Training), based on her F-1 student status, until her status converts to H-1B status on October 1, 2010 and will be authorized to continue her employment through September 2013.  Further, the petitioning employer will be permitted to extend her H-1B status for another 3 years through 2016, and then in one year increments if a PERM, or permanent labor certification case, is filed in a timely manner, more than one year prior to the expiration of the beneficiary's H-1B status.
Filed under: H-1B Specialty Occupation Visas


May 3, 2010

Getson & Schatz, P.C. received its first approval of a FY-2011 H-1B cap case that was filed on April 1, 2010 for a change of status from F-1 to H-1B effective October 1, 2010.  Based upon the approval the F-1 student will be able to obtain an extension of his F-1 Optional Practical Training Employment Authorization Document, which expires on July 1, 2010, through September 30, 2010 under the "cap-gap" regulation.   The H-1B Petition involved the position of Market Research Analyst for a newly formed insurance agency in New York.  The bona fide non-speculative nature of the proposed job offered was thoroughly documented in the H-1B Petition with evidence of the finances of the Petitioner, the business plan of the Petitioner, background information about the position of market reserach analyst, the customers of the Petitioner, the type of marketing conducted by the Petitioner, the nature of the work the Beneficiary had already performed during his F-1 Optional Practical Training, and letters from other insurance agencies describing their employment of market research analysts.
Filed under: H-1B Specialty Occupation Visas