Brendan assists employers throughout the United States, of all sizes and in nearly every industry, with obtaining visas and work authorization for skilled employees. His practice includes an emphasis on working with college/university faculty members, medical professionals, research scientists, engineers, and IT professionals on complex immigration issues involving the full range of nonimmigrant visas (E-1/E-2/E-3, H-1B, L-1, O-1, P-1/P-3, R-1, TN) and permanent residency (EB-1A/EB-1B, EB-2 NIW, PERM Labor Certification, I-360/EB-4) processes. Brendan has particular experience working with scholars, scientists/researchers, postdocs and others on “self-petitioned” permanent residency options, including EB-1A individuals of extraordinary ability and EB-2 National Interest Waiver.
Brendan frequently speaks at local and national conferences on visa/immigration issues in higher education and academia, and serves as immigration counsel to the largest public university system in the United States, as well as several other individual colleges and universities.
He is also a leading attorney nationally in the specific niche of physician and health care immigration, and has unique experience in navigating issues specific to international medical graduates/physicians, including J-1 waivers, H-1B and O-1 petitions, and permanent residency through EB-1, PERM Labor Certification and the Physician National Interest Waiver processes. He represents many hospitals and health care systems/institutions across the United States on such matters, and also works with employers to secure work authorization for other allied health care professionals, such as registered nurses, physical therapists, lab technologists and others, through the H-1B and Schedule A immigrant visa processes.
Brendan is an active member of the International Medical Graduate Taskforce, a select group of immigration attorneys from throughout the country who focus their practice on health care immigration and who are dedicated to educating national and state policy makers, administrative officials and the American public on the need for fair and reasonable laws for allowing international medical graduates to become licensed as physicians and to begin or continue their medical careers in the United States.
Brendan also routinely assists employers with immigration compliance matters, advising on matters such as I-9 compliance, document retention and other obligations imposed by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Labor.
As part of his practice, Brendan additionally counsels individual clients in family-based and humanitarian immigration processes, including marriage-based/family-based visa processes, consular processing and asylum applications, and he frequently works with investors, entrepreneurs and start-ups in securing investment-based or trade-based nonimmigrant visas (E-1 and E-2).