Corporations
SW Law Group is a boutique immigration law firm that provides world-class legal work with individualized attention and care.
Our firm specializes in providing a wide array of business immigration services, including non-immigrant work visas and immigrant visas based on employment.
We regularly assist multi-national corporations with intercompany transfers of executives and managers, as well as start-up companies to incorporate, invest and successfully launch new businesses in the U.S.
Our Clients
A majority of our clients are multinational corporations that partner with our firm to meet their immigration-related corporate compliance needs.
We actively assist clients from more than 25 different countries. Members of our team fluently speak English, Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, French, Korean, Spanish, Hindi, and Thai. Of particular note, SW Law Group is often considered the largest firm in the U.S. specializing in assisting Japanese corporations and nationals due to the fact that our partner David Sindell is one of the one of a few licensed attorneys of Foreign Law in Japan, specializing in U.S. immigration.
Our Services
While international students graduating with technical degrees focus on finding H-1B sponsorships, employers these days are more cognizant of compliance obligations that follow upon approval of H-1B visas. In this stricter era of investigations and enforcement, our firm offers compliance consultations and representation during Department of Labor, ICE, and USCIS investigations.
Our services include the preparation of public access files and the completion and retention of the Form I-9. By leveraging our four global offices, we also pride ourselves in offering the highest quality assistance with consular processing at various U.S. Embassies around the world.
A key service we also provide our clients includes assisting their employees with their various non-immigrant visas applications as well as employment- and family-based immigration services. Relocating to a new country is both exciting and stressful, so we seek to ease that transition by providing expert advice and guidance on the immigration process to both our clients and their beneficiaries. Every team member at our firm is personally responsible for guiding the employees of our clients through each step of the immigration process. Our specialties include non-immigrant work and training visas, Labor Certification Processing, and Permanent Residence applications based on employment and family.
Specialized Knowledge
SWLG welcomes challenging cases that require highly technical industry research and extensive legal writing. We deliver effective and efficient services of a big firm with the personal touch of a boutique office, in order to consistently and successfully assist clients to secure L-1B “specialized knowledge” visas, as well as E “essential knowledge” visas.
Innovation, Excellence, Integrity
As we expand our operations globally, our core values continue to be Innovation, Excellence, and Integrity. We pride ourselves on our responsiveness and our cutting-edge technology to remain accessible to our clients. We also communicate regularly with U.S. Embassies and Consulates around the world so that we can provide our clients with the most up-to-date news and information.
Investors
SW Law Group is a boutique immigration law firm that provides world-class legal work with individualized attention and care.
Many of our corporate and individual clients include investors interested in making capital investments in a U.S. enterprises as well as entrepreneurs interested in starting new businesses in the U.S.
Particularly Common Visa Categories
EB-5 – foreign investors coming to the U.S. to make capital investment in a qualifying commercial enterprise
E-1 / E-2 – principal investors coming to the U.S. to develop and direct a new business entity* and sponsored foreign nationals in executive, managerial, or highly specialized positions
L-1 – multinational managers and executives or other intra-company transfers
B-1 / B-2 – temporary visitors on business
Other Common Visa Categories
H-1B – foreign workers employed in specialty occupations that require advanced expertize in specialized fields such as in architecture, engineering, mathematics, science, medicine, accounting and finance
O-1 – foreign nationals with extraordinary abilities in the performing arts, fine arts, motion pictures, television production, athletics, sciences, education or business
Entrepreneurs
SW Law Group is a boutique immigration law firm that provides world-class legal work with individualized attention and care.
Many of our corporate and individual clients include entrepreneurs starting new businesses in the U.S.
Our firm often provides start-up services ranging from opening a sushi restaurant as an investor under E-2 status to creating a culturally unique program eligible for P-3 classification.
Particularly Common Visa Categories
E-1 / E-2 – principal investors coming to the U.S. to develop and direct a new business entity* and sponsored foreign nationals in executive, managerial, or highly specialized positions
B-1 / B-2 – temporary visitors on business
EB-5 – foreign investors coming to the U.S. to make capital investment in a qualifying commercial enterprise
Other Common Visa Categories
L-1 – multinational managers and executives or other intra-company transfers
H-1B – foreign workers employed in specialty occupations that require advanced expertize in specialized fields such as in architecture, engineering, mathematics, science, medicine, accounting and finance
O-1 – foreign nationals with extraordinary abilities in the performing arts, fine arts, motion pictures, television production, athletics, sciences, education or business
Individuals
A visa is a piece of documentation that you obtain after a U.S. official has determined that you are eligible to enter the United States for a specific purpose and for a specific period of time.
It has a certain expiration date and can be authorized for any number of entries into the United States.
A visa allows you to travel to a U.S. port of entry, so that you may ask an immigration officer to allow you to enter the United States.
There Are Two Categories of U.S. Visas: Non-Immigrant Visas and Immigrant Visas.
Non-immigrant visas are generally applicable to those who, although having a permanent residence outside of the United States, wish to temporarily be in the United States for purposes such a business, investment, study, or travel. Typically, these visas require a corporate sponsor. If you are on a non-immigrant visa, after a certain period of stay in the United States, it is possible for you to apply for an immigrant visa.
Immigrant visas, commonly known as the Green Card, offer individuals many benefits, including the ability to live and work permanently in the United States. There are various classifications for employment-based and family-based immigration.
Particularly Common Non-Immigrant Visa Categories
Employees: H-1B, H-3
Students: J-1, F-1 / M-1
Artists: P-2, P-3, O-1
Athletes: P-3
Immigrant Visa Categories
Employment Based Immigrant Visa
Family Based Immigrant Visa
Diversity Immigrant Visa Program