Immigration yields innovation—and Ozcan Cikmaz’s story illustrates that perfectly. Ozcan’s startup has developed a phone app that identifies an individual’s migraine trigger and predicts when a migraine will hit. The technology will help the one billion migraine sufferers worldwide to more effectively monitor and manage this debilitating neurological disease. Life-Altering Events Ozcan’s story begins…
Meet Kristopher Jay Banzon: Highly-skilled, award-winning electrical lineman. Reliable colleague. Brave hero. Our country needs more people like him. Kris keeps the power lines working during disasters. He fixes power lines while hanging at the end of a cable attached to a helicopter. His work is in the national interest. He’s a hero. What’s in…
If you’ve done some amazing things, you have a lot of U.S. immigration options. Options mean choices, and you have several choices to make regarding your path to obtaining a U.S. green card. Our clients often consider applying for either an EB-1A green card for extraordinary ability or an EB-2 green card with a…
Although the end is near for entrepreneur parole under the International Entrepreneur Rule (IER), startup founders have alternatives to build amazing companies in the U.S. After nearly a year of threatening to terminate the IER program, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) made good on that threat last week: It published a proposal in the…