Practice Area Details
Immigration and Nationality Law
Hughes, Socol, Piers, Resnick & Dym, Ltd.'s immigration and nationality law practice group offers clients a unique depth and scope of expertise and experience equaled by few other law firms in the country. The group is led by two of the country’s most respected and experienced immigration and nationality lawyers, Kalman D. Resnick and Terry Yale Feiertag, and supported by a team of talented lawyers and skilled paralegals.
We represent global and local businesses, universities, educational and medical centers, and law firms as well as individual foreign nationals and their families in the full scope of U.S. immigration and nationality law matters, including the following:
- Non-immigrant and immigrant employment and business visas
- Family-based immigration petitions and applications
- Adjustment of status and immigrant visa processing
- Workplace enforcement and employer sanctions issues
- Non-immigrant and immigrant investor visas
- Asylum and refugee matters
- Naturalization and citizenship applications
- Deportation removal and defense.
- Labor certifications
- Administrative appeals and federal court actions
HSPRD attorneys represent clients before the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the Executive Office for Immigration Review, the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Department of Labor and U.S. consular posts around the world. In addition, we are skilled litigators in federal court and in administrative appellate litigation. Our immigration practice group brings intellectual rigor and zealous advocacy to our roles as counselors and advocates in all areas of immigration and nationality law.
Publications
- Terry Yale Feiertag, Fundamentals of Employing Highly Skilled Foreign Nationals, in Employing Highly Skilled Foreign Nationals: Leading Lawyers on Counseling Clients, Obtaining H-1B Visas, and Developing a Successful Immigration Strategy 155-74 (2009).
- Marta Delgado, Summary of New Implementation of SEVIS Fee for Certain Foreign and Exchange Visitors, 42 Globe 1 (2004).
- Robert Krug, Temporary Non-Agricultural Workers, in Business Immigration Law: Forms & Filings (L. J. Press 2010). Read more.
Speeches & Presentations
- Marta Delgado, Waiving the Grounds of Inadmissibility for Immigrants and Non-immigrants, Address at a meeting of the Chicago Bar Association Immigration and Nationality Law Committee (January 23, 2004).
Related News
- The Jewish Council on Urban Affairs, an organization dedicated to combatting poverty, racism and anti-Semitism, will present HSPRD partner Kalman Resnick with the Rabbi Robert J. Marx Social Justice Award on June 20, 2012.
- HSPRD is pleased to announce that Robert W. Krug has become a partner of the firm.
- HSPRD lawyer Susan Gzesh has been invited to participate as a member of a high level task force on the Midwest perspective on immigration policy, convened by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. The task force, which will begin its work in December 2011, will be co-chaired by former Mayor Richard Daley, Doris Meissner (former Commissioner of US Immigration and Naturalization Service), among others. The Task Force will issue a report in summer 2012.
- HSPRD lawyer Richard Fred Johnson won political asylum for a Liberian national who had a well-founded fear of persecution based on his sexual orientation, after a six-year legal battle.
- National Immigrant Justice Center honors HSPRD partner Terry Yale Feiertag with the Midwest Light of Human Rights Award.
- HSPRD successfully convinces Immigration and Customs officials to delay the removal of undocumented college student, Rigoberto Padilla, for at least one year, and obtained an employment authorization for Mr. Padilla, allowing him to benefit from future immigration reform, such as the DREAM Act.
