Practice Areas > Immigration
PDF Stearns Weaver Miller’s Immigration practice represents employers and investors in a wide range of industries who seek guidance and assistance employing foreign nationals and structuring their business entities to facilitate the transfer of foreign personnel. Whether a multi-national corporation seeking to transfer an overseas executive to the United States or an investor wishing to establish a business in the United States, Stearns Weaver Miller’s Immigration practice has the experience necessary to navigate clients through the obstacles of the immigration process.
We represent large multinational companies in connection with the temporary employment of professionals and intra-company transfers, the entry of business visitors, and the permanent employment of foreign workers. We have extensive experience obtaining H-1B, L-1, and TN status for our clients’ foreign workers and then navigating our clients through the permanent residence process, including labor certification. We have assisted musicians, scientists, and business people in obtaining O visas as aliens of extraordinary ability and achieving permanent residence on such grounds. We have assisted entrepreneurs in obtaining E visas so that they can establish businesses in the United States and we have helped professional athletes obtain P visas. Our practice also includes providing advice to employers regarding the I-9 employment verification process and immigration-related unfair employment practices.
Representative Industries
• Hospitality
• Retail
• Pharmaceutical
• Chemical Manufacturing
• Arts and Entertainment
Representative Experience
• Obtained alien of extraordinary ability permanent residence for Australian trombonist
• Obtained investor visa for British developer of custom homes
• Successfully navigated numerous employers through the maze of labor certification
• Obtained indefinite blanket L petition for South Florida based multi-national corporation