Bio

Lisa Galvan represents companies throughout the world in securing necessary work visas and permanent resident cards for employees, advising on I-9 compliance issues and representing companies in government audits and investigations. Lisa has extensive experience in employment-based immigration law. She advises and represents companies in the preparation of employment-based nonimmigrant petitions (e.g., B, E, H, J, L, O, P, R, and TN petitions), labor certification (PERM) applications, immigrant petitions (all preference categories), and adjustment of status and consular processing applications. Additionally, Lisa assists individuals with family based petitions and naturalization applications. Lisa represents companies undergoing immigration-related investigations, including I-9 audits, public access file reviews, SEVIS evaluations, onsite inspections, and a variety of other government probes. In addition, to prepare companies for the possibility of such government activity, she helps them in their efforts to establish successful compliance programs.