Our Mission, Our Vision…
01. SINCE 1994
Established in March 1994, SW Law Group, P.C. is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan in the heart of New York City, with additional offices in Silicon Valley, Tokyo, and Thailand.
02. Professional & Successful
Over the last 23 years, with well over 15,000 clients served, we have primarily assisted corporations and individuals with business immigration benefits and corporate compliance.
03. Wide AREA OF SERVICES
We specialize in providing a wide array of non-immigrant work and training visas, and we also provide family-based immigration services and assist with citizenship and nationality issues.
Proven Success
The Numbers Don’t Lie
Over the last 23 years, with well over 15,000 clients served, we have primarily assisted corporations and individuals with business immigration benefits and corporate compliance.
We handle consular processing issues and provide assistance with consular processing matters specifically through our Tokyo office.
Clients Served
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A Team Of Professionals
Together, and as we expand our firm with offices both in the U.S. and abroad, we have assisted foreign national clients from over 25 different countries.
Specifically, the partners at SW Law Group bring over 50 years of combined experience to our firm:
David Sindell
Our founding partner, has nearly 24 years of experience in immigration law and leads our Tokyo office. He spends his time between the four offices, but is based in Tokyo. He is one of a few licensed attorneys of Foreign Law in Japan, specializing in U.S. immigration. He is admitted to the Tokyo Bar Association.
David speaks French and Japanese at a near native level, having spent over 30 years combined in France and Japan, and is currently working on mastering his fourth language, Thai.
Barbara Wong
With over 18 years of experience in immigration, leads our Silicon Valley office.
She has handled various employment-based U.S. immigration matters for Fortune 500 and 1000 companies and was formerly a senior attorney at two large international immigration firms where she gained in-depth experience in business immigration matters.
Barbara is fluent in Cantonese and proficient in Mandarin.
H. Heidi Son
With nearly 15 years of combined experience in employment law and immigration law, leads our New York office.
She previously worked for a large employment and labor firm and has assisted Fortune 500 companies in various labor and employment matters. Within the immigration field, Heidi has particular expertise in obtaining L-1 and E visas for entrepreneurs and start-ups. Heidi is fluent in Korean and conversational in Japanese.
Features
What We Do Best
non Immigrant WORK & Training Visas
We specialize in providing a wide array of non-immigrant work and training visas, and we also provide family-based immigration services and assist with citizenship and nationality issues.
Training & Representation
Additionally, in the current era of investigations and compliance issues, we offer I-9 training, employer compliance handbooks, and representation of clients during investigations by the Department of Labor (DOL), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).
IMMIGRATION VISA MATTERS
We handle a broad range of immigration visa matters, including: nonimmigrant visas such as H-1B (specialty occupation workers), O-1 (aliens of extraordinary abilities), TN (NAFTA professionals), J-1 (exchange visitors), B-1/B-2 (business visitors/tourists), L-1 (intracompany transferees), E (treaty country traders/investors); permanent immigrant visas through labor certification (PERM), multinational executives/ managers, foreign nationals with extraordinary abilities, outstanding researchers, and national interest waivers; and adjustment of status applications and consular processing.
U.S. IMMIGRATION
We focus on the expert execution of difficult matters and are proud to be able to assist foreign nationals and their employers in navigating the intricacies of our complicated U.S. immigration laws.
In addition to handling U.S. immigration issues, through our global reach, we handle directly, and through co-counsel relationships, global immigration issues for various countries including the U.K., Japan, France, Thailand, and India. In particular, we pride ourselves in our Japanese practice.
PRESENCE IN JAPAN
Based on our presence in Tokyo, Japan, we believe that we are the largest firm in the U.S. servicing Japanese companies, investors, and individuals. Through our office in Tokyo, which is located ten minutes from the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, we are privy to the most up-to-date information on consular processing issues in that area. Specifically, we work closely with Japanese corporate clients on U.S. immigration related legal matters.
We have assisted numerous multinational Japanese companies in opening representative offices and incorporating subsidiaries in the U.S. Of particular note, founding partner David Sindell is one of a few foreign lawyers specializing in U.S. immigration in Tokyo admitted to the Tokyo Bar Association.
MULTILINGUAL TEAM
As such, we are particularly able to advise on visa application processes for our Japan based clients.
Our legal team consists of professionals who have extensive experience providing immigration services to large corporations, start-ups, and individuals. Members of our staff speak English, Japanese, French, Thai, Korean, Mandarin, and Cantonese fluently.
OUR VISION
Innovation, Integrity, Excellence
Our focus on personalized immigration service is our distinguishing characteristic and strength. We pride ourselves on our meticulous legal work and continuous focus on compliance with and adherence to U.S. immigration regulations. Our combination of global vision and personalized service is, moreover, a unique asset that defines SW Law Group, P.C. and has been the underpinning of our success for visa applications and responses to USCIS requests for evidence over the last 24 years.
HISTORY
In 1994, SW Law Group, P.C. was founded as Sindell Law Offices by David Sindell with a firm belief that a small, well-qualified team could perfect the balance of providing high quality professional services with focused, personal attention.
Our firm still maintains that belief today: Innovation, Excellence, Integrity – our motto, which is manifest in the work and services we provide. We pride ourselves in providing the best service and advice that we can, each and every day.
PERSONALIZED IMMIGRATION SERVICE
We deliver creative solutions to solve complex challenges. Our firm specializes in providing thoughtful and consistent attention to the needs of our clients, collaborating closely on all immigration matters presented and ensuring that we become familiar with the internal protocols of partnered clients, so that we may efficiently and effectively deliver results for their foreign national employees.
We work closely with clients to establish a structure that will allowed for continued dialogue and open conversation, so that we may adjust quickly to tackle new challenges as necessary but still also provide consistently reliable and dependable service.
As part of our standard services, for instance, we provide regular calls with clients and schedule individual meetings with all foreign national employees who require them or have questions about their specific case.
Attention to Detail and Meticulous Work Product
With increased government scrutiny on compliance in immigration matters, attention to detail and meticulous work product are highly important.
We thus pride ourselves in our ability to identify and address specific issues particular to any foreign national employee’s case to maximize the best value for our client and, ultimately, the best results for their foreign national employees. Our senior attorneys carefully review all immigration matters.