An Immigration Law Firm For Foreign Professionals And Families
About the Firm
We are a law firm of two attorneys: Harlan D. Karp and Paula E. Camino Fini. We focus our law practice on U.S. immigration law and ancillary legal matters involving our immigrant clientele. Immigration law is our calling - our professional and intellectual home.
In our prior legal careers (where we handled general litigation and legal issues affecting small businesses), we acquired the perspective of helping people in stressful situations and in finding solutions to legal problems. In 2000, we founded our own boutique immigration law firm to better serve our clients. We provide our clients with a hands-on approach. We find that clients prefer continuity: one or two people max should handle their immigration matters, start to finish. So we have long-term client relationships. Many of our foreign physician clients start working with us in the context of their J-1 (Conrad 30) waiver. We help them with the layers of the J-1 waiver to get to H1-B temporary worker status; then we find a way to obtain permanent residency, whether it be through the PERM labor certification, I-140 immigrant visa, to their greencard. Or they come to us on an H1-B visa or an O-1 visa and decide to sponsor themselves for permanent residency.
So we prepare and file an EB-11 and/or national interest waiver and seek a greencard. Or we try several different options or combinations, whether employer-sponsored or self-petition, to obtain permanent residency. Or the hospital or medical practice comes to us and seeks help keeping their physician employee. Or clients come to us as engaged to be married, or legally married, and we use the K visa and the adjustment of status process to obtain a greencard. Years later, clients use our services to acquire U.S. citizenship. Then the immigration process renews and we seek immigrant visas to reunify the family with the immigrant visa and consular processing. Many of our clients have relationships with us that extend for years. Immigration law is exceedingly complex and the rules are ever changing. Although the majority of our clients are foreign physicians on J-1 visas, O-1 visas, or H-1B temporary worker visas, our clients come from all walks of life, whether as professors, nurses, business people, entrepreneurs. They come from all parts of the world on an H1-B visa or an O-1 visa and decide to sponsor themselves for permanent residency. So we prepare and file an EB-11 and/or national interest waiver and seek a greencard. Or we try several different options or combinations, whether employer-sponsored or self-petition, to obtain permanent residency. Or the hospital or medical practice comes to us and seeks help keeping their physician employee. Or clients come to us as engaged to be married, or legally married, and we use the K visa and the adjustment of status process to obtain a greencard. Years later, clients use our services to acquire U.S. citizenship. Then the immigration process renews and we seek immigrant visas to reunify the family with the immigrant visa and consular processing. Many of our clients have relationships with us that extend for years. Immigration law is exceedingly complex and the rules are ever changing.
Although the majority of our clients are foreign physicians on J-1 visas, O-1 visas, or H-1B temporary worker visas, our clients come from all walks of life, whether as professors, nurses,
business people, entrepreneurs. They come from all parts of the world.
We remind ourselves, constantly, that we too are descendants of immigrants. Our ancestors had humble backgrounds and fled their homelands for better lives and opportunities found in the United States. We admire the outlook of today’s immigrants: their optimism, can-do spirit, and work ethic. We believe that this country offers hope and opportunity. We are dedicated to helping our clients obtain their own version of the American dream.