Immigration Law

• Citizenship and Naturalization
• Family Immigration
  For nearly 30 years, firm-founding attorney Barbara Marcouiller’s practice has been dedicated exclusively to immigration law and I-9 compliance, with a focus on custom immigration solutions for businesses and families.  Marcouiller PLLC is based on providing attentive, customized immigration services and solutions to businesses, employees, and those with family-based immigration and citizenship needs.
• Employment Immigration
  The Marcouiller PLLC is dedicated exclusively to matters of immigration and nationality law.  We are pleased to evaluate your immigration or citizenship question.  On the employment-based immigration side we focus on employment-based first preference and second preference with national interest waivers.  On the employment-based non-immigrant side we emphasize O’s, B’s, H-1B’s, L’s, R’s, P/Q’s, and much more.  We welcome scientists, researchers, professors, multi-national executives, artists, athletes, entertainers, religious workers, and teachers, among many others.
• Green Cards
• Business Immigration
• Student Visas
  €œNon-immigrant †refers to visas for temporary stay in the U.S. There are very many of these types of visas. They include visitor for pleasure (tourist), visitor for business, three different types of student visas (J, F, M), certain temporary work visas including the H-1B (and all the H visas), E-1, E-2, L’s, P, Q, R, I, and TN, among many others. Each type of visa has specific requirements that must be met.
• Work Visas
  With the employment visas, both the applicant for the visa and also the job need to qualify. For example, in the case of an H-1B visa not only does the foreign national need to possess a minimum of the equivalent of a bachelor’s degree (4 year university degree) from an accredited university in the U.S., but the job must also require a minimum of a bachelor’s degree to be able to perform it.  The employer will need to demonstrate the job requires an accountant and could not be done by a bookkeeper, which doesn’t require a degree.
• Removal Defense
  While we have chosen not to focus on removal defense based on criminal issues, we may be pleased to represent you with other forms of relief including non-LPR cancellation of removal, asylum, VAWA, adjustment of status in proceedings, defense against allegations of having abandoned lawful permanent resident status, and alleged marriage fraud.