YOUR GUAM LAWYER

The sole practitioners of Your Guam Lawyer have a general law practice with a specialty in the area of U.S. immigration law. They will assist individuals and businesses in Guam, other points within the United States of America. and overseas to achieve their goals in an efficient and effective manner, providing responsive counsel and advice throughout the process. The goal is to provide our clients with the best strategy to suit their particular needs combined with the highest level of customer service.

In the area of immigration law, the attorneys have represented clients in matters before the US Citizenship and Immigration Services, Guam Department of Labor, U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Immigration Judge (removal and deportation), Board of Immigration Appeals, and in the U.S. District Court for Guam.

Our collective expertise with immigration practice includes the different business, professional and investor categories (such as E-1, E-2, H-1B, H-3, and L-1 cases), permanent worker cases (such as Reduction in Recruitment labor certification cases and the preference categories), adjustment of status and consular processing cases, family cases, political asylum and removal of cancellation, and U.S. naturalization and citizenship cases.

Our legal professionals as sole practitioners provide comprehensive U.S. immigration advice and immigration-related legal services to commercial business organizations, non-profit organizations, investors, as well as individuals.

NONIMMIGRANT VISAS:

(A) Employment Visas:  Obtaining, transferring, and extending nonimmigrant visas for foreign business personnel, including:

(1) L intra-company transferee visas (both individually and under the "L" blanket petition program)

(2) E Employee Visa: for employees of  "E" companies working in supervisory or executive capacity

(3) O Visa: for aliens of extraordinary ability in the arts and sciences

(4) P Visa: for entertainers

(5) H-1B Visa: for specialty occupations

(6) R Visa: Religious Visa

(B) Investors Visas:  Obtaining and extending visas for:

(1) E1 Treaty Trader Visa: available to persons who will enter the U.S.solely to carry on substantial trade principally between the United States and the foreign country of which the person is a national.

(2) E2 Treaty Investor Visa: available to persons entering the United States solely to develop and direct the operations of an enterprise in which he has invested or is actively in the process of investing a substantial amount of capital.

(C) Visitor's Visas:

(1) B1 Visa:  used primarily for visitors on business

(2) B2 Visa:  for general tourists

(D) K Visas: for fiancé(e)s, spouses of U.S. Citizens

(E) F Visa: Student Visa

IMMIGRANT VISAS (Permanent Residency "Green Card")

(A) Employment Based (including Labor Certification):(EB1, EB2, EB3)

(B) Investor's Green Card (EB5)

(C) Family Based

(1) Marriage to U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident

(2) Parent of US Citizen, Child of US Citizen or Unmarried Child of Permanent Resident

(3) siblings of US Citizen

 MISCELLANEOUS:

(A) Naturalization: Becoming a U.S. Citizen.

(B) Diversity Visa: Entering a lottery for a chance to receive permanent residency "Green Card".

(C) Change of Status:  if the alien is in the U.S., we can apply for a change of status.

(D) Consulate/Embassy Service:  the Firm will send an attorney to accompany client(s) to the visa interview.

An attorney will accompany the client since the marriage interview is the most critical element of the process and may often be the difference between being approved or denied for a visa.  Many times an alien has a petition or change of status approved in the U.S. but is denied a visa at the consulate or embassy because the client does not answer questions satisfactorily.

SImmigration Services (http://uscis.gov/graphics/index.htm)
Case Status Online (https://egov.immigration.gov/cris/jsps/index.jsp)
U Department of State (http://www.state.gov/)
Diversity Visa (http://www.dvlottery.state.gov/)
US Embassy, Seoul (http://usembassy.state.gov/seoul/)
US Embassies,(http://www.usembassy-mexico.gov/edirector.html)
 Security dministration (http://www.ssa.gov/)