Despite recent laws that eroded immigrant's rights, such as the Illegal Immigrant Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA of 1996), the U.S. Patriot Act; and the recent immigration reform Bill, the Immigration Reform Act of 2007 - the United States continues to be the most welcoming country. Hundreds of thousands of foreign nationals from across the globe are welcomed to the United States every year through family-based petitions, employment-based petitions, and temporary non-immigrant visas. Hundreds of thousands more foreign nationals remain in the United States based on their current status. Lawful permanent residents enjoy entering and leaving the U.S. with very little restriction, enabling them to visit their home country or to conduct business overseas.

At Smith & Garg, LLC, our experienced immigration attorneys will help you navigate the difficult channels within immigration law and reach your goals to enter or to remain in the United States either through immigrant petitions or non-immigrant temporary applications. The following are the most common areas of immigration law that we regularly advise our clients in; because immigration law is expansive and all encompassing, we are only presenting some of the more common types of applications on this site.

• Family-based Immigrant Petition
• Employment-based Immigrant Petition
• Adjustment of Status (Green Card Application)
• PERM - Labor Certification
• Non-Immigrant Visas - The most common non-immigrant visas are:
  
  
• B-1/B-2 Visitor Visas
• E-1/E-2 Treat Trader or Treaty Investor Visa
• F-1 Student Visa
• H-1B Temporary Professional Worker Visa
• K-1 Fiance Visa & K-3 Spousal Visa
• L-1(A) & L-1(B) Intra-company Transferee
• O-1 Visa (Extraordinary Ability)
• R-1 Visa (Religious Worker)
• Naturalization
• Asylum, Refugee Status, and Withholding of Deportation