Wood & Lamping’s Immigration Practice Group provides advice and counsel to clients on issues associated with seeking the appropriate temporary and permanent employee visas for professionals, executives, and other skilled foreign workers and permanent residence for foreign nationals.  We also offer comprehensive processing services for nonimmigrant visas (e.g. H-1B, TN, L1, E, B, F1, etc.) and green cards for both employment-based and family-based cases as well as assisting corporate clients with compliance issues. 

Services to employers include providing information regarding verifying employment eligibility of employees (U.S. citizens or not) using Form I-9 as well as advising employers on citizenship and national origin discrimination and document abuse; handling applications for all temporary and permanent employment-based visas and for labor certification; assisting employers seeking visa extensions for foreign nationals or change of status for foreign nationals moving from one employer to another; assisting foreign nationals desiring to be self-employed or to form their own professional associations; and guiding lawful permanent residents through naturalization.

Services to individuals and families include counseling sponsors of visas for spouses, siblings, parents, children, stepchildren, and adopted children (international adoptions) who are seeking entry into the country, whether they are relatives of permanent residents or of U.S. citizens; adjusting status for foreign nationals already in the United States; assisting those whose fiancés and fiancées are seeking to enter the country; and guiding foreign nationals through the lengthy naturalization process.  We also prepare foreign nationals and their family members for interviews with government officials and a test on American government and history.

Wood & Lamping provides personal client services, as our clients will work directly with an immigration attorney, not a paralegal or assistant as is the case in most firms.  As a full-service law firm, our resources reach beyond immigration issues to meet all of a client's needs.