Immigration Attorney
International and National Immigration Lawyers Berger & Berger
The immigration law firm of Berger & Berger has been helping immigrants and non-immigrants work and live in the United States for more than 35 years. It has represented individuals, corporations, and other institutions from across the nation and around the world. The firm's immigration attorneys help those in need with their work and residential visas. They specialize in all matters relating to the United States Immigration and Nationality Law from business visas and permanent residency to removal proceedings and visa processing.
Berger & Berger attorneys and their support staff work as a team. Cases are handled by one or two attorneys as well as paralegals and law clerks. This arrangement enhances productivity and provides the client with multiple points of contact and assistance. This also enables them to entrust distinct phases of representation to the appropriate immigration lawyer and support personnel. Berger & Berger's immigration attorneys, law clerks, and paralegals routinely discuss progress and potential issues in individual cases to provide the best possible immigration service to their clients.
The firm's immigration attorneys are active members of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). They dedicate themselves assisting clients with matters related to —
Contact Berger & Berger, your immigration law firm
Be wise and contact a leader among immigration law firms. With offices throughout New York State and in Atlanta, Berger & Berger is ready to help you with your immigration or naturalization issue, including business and individual visas, procedures, applications, and more. Call the firm's main office at (716) 568-4451 or just use the Quick Contact box on your screen.
News Update!!!
10/22/09 - Diversity Visa Lottery Program Announced for 2011
Applications for the Diversity Visa Lottery Program (DV-2011) must be submitted electronically between noon, Eastern Daylight Time, on Friday, October 2, 2009 and noon, Eastern Standard Time, on Monday, November 30, 2009.
The Diversity Visa Lottery Program makes permanent resident visas available to individuals who meet simple eligibility requirements—individual must have either a high school education or its equivalent OR two years of work experience within the past five years in an occupation requiring at least two years of training or experience to perform.
The Diversity Visa Lottery Program promotes diversity among new immigrants by allowing natives of countries with low immigrant admissions during the previous five years to obtain a “Green Card”. Based on immigrant admissions to the USA natives of the following countries are excluded from DV-2011: Brazil, Canada, China (Mainland only—Hong Kong SAR, Macau SAR and Taiwan are included in the program), Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Mexico, Pakistan, the Philippines, Peru, Poland, South Korea, the United Kingdom (Great Britain and its dependent territories are excluded; however, Northern Ireland is included in the program), and Vietnam.
06/09/2009 - Janet Napolitano, Secretary, US Department of Homeland Security, has granted deferred action for two years to widows and widowers of US citizens, as well as unmarried children under 18 years old, who reside in the United States and who were married for less than two years prior to their spouse's death. For more information, please contact our law firm for details.
01/15/2009 - Effective immediately, U.S. Department of Homeland Security has expanded its biometric technology at U.S. ports of entry. The biometric technology upgrade consists of a ten-fingerprint collection which will now be required for non-U.S. citizens including lawful permanent residents upon entry or re-entry into the United States.
12/19/2008 - Currently, AILA, the American Immigration Lawyer's Association, Texas Service Center liaison, has questioned the problems with the adjudication of EB-2 Form I-140 petitions on behalf of foreign medical graduates with MBBS degrees or other foreign degree equivalent to a U.S. medical degree with the USCIS Texas Service Center. The Texas Service Center has requested specific case numbers so that it can perform a complete review of the adjudications.
