Business Immigration and Compliance Practice

Wiggin and Dana’s team of dedicated immigration and compliance professionals provides clients with innovative holistic solutions for mobilizing global talent. We represent employers across industries, with particular attention to multinational entities, emerging companies, franchisors, and research/educational institutions. We offer a depth of “in-house” understanding of our clients as they navigate U.S. business immigration laws and the intersection of related employment, tax, corporate, and other regulatory areas.

Our team partners with executive, management, legal, and human resources stakeholders to enable employers to provide employees with the benefit of work-based immigration sponsorship. We recognize the practical business importance of this process to employers, as well as its personal importance to employees.  We create a customized immigration and compliance strategy for each employer to address both short-term and long-term goals. Clients can rest assured that we carefully monitor continuous lawful status and compliance for as long as they choose to provide immigration sponsorship to an employee.

We are highly regarded for our thoroughness and strong acumen for business immigration strategy from a comprehensive compliance lens. We advise clients with respect to the following:

• Establishment of new entities and immigration sponsorship policies
• Recruiting and onboarding work authorization analysis for employment candidates
• I-9 and E-Verify processes
• Due diligence, immigration liability valuation, and pre- and post-closing compliance for M&A transactions
• Global transfer of executives and employees
• Employment-based nonimmigrant and immigrant visa petitions
• Permanent Alien Labor Certification applications
• Adjustment of Status applications
• Naturalization applications
• Consular processing and immigration interviews
• Government requests for evidence/audits and site visits
• Limited private client services (e.g., international citizenship, family-based cases, traveler benefits/redress)