STRATEGIES IN DEALING WITH IMMIGRATION LAW

  Immigration Law Strategies

The law office is very active in the area of immigration law and technological change in the 21st century. The firm believes that major technological development is taking place throughout the world and not, as what was done in the 20th century, in specific developed countries. And that one of the major issues of the 21st century is to reconcile the globalization of technology with the 20th century concept of the nation state. In the next century, no country will be able to monopolize or control the spread of technology. As such, existing US immigration laws may seriously affect the ability of the United States to quickly absorb important technological changes.

This office's philosophy was developed as a result of legal representation provided to clients with numerous high technology skills from almost every country in the world. The firm has a first hand observation of this trend. Over the years, the firm has represented a significant number of immigrants with advance degrees who have brought to the US technological skills that they developed outside of the US. Over the years, the technologies that they have brought with them have greatly enhanced the international competitiveness of the American economy. These contributions have been in areas such as medicine, DNA research, computer technology, physics, chemistry, operations research, robotics and in various social sciences.

This conflicting ideology between the 20th and 21st century is currently being argued in various aspects of US immigration law. For example, the current numerical limitation of H1B visas per year will adversely affect the ability of many US firms and universities to obtain the services of many highly qualified research scientists, engineers and computer specialists at a time when they are desperately needed in the US. The numerical limitation is a remnant of the 20th century concept that all important technological developments emanate from the US and by limiting the number of highly qualified professionals that can come to the US somehow or another American workers will fill the gap. Neither the Congress of the US nor the Department of Homeland Security understand the complicated relationship between the globalization of technological change and the immigration laws.

In an effort to clearly demonstrate the globalization of technological development the firm is developing a questionnaire and requests that visitors to this home page who are professionals to complete the form. The questionnaire focuses on the type of technology you may be actively involved, the country where you are learned this technology and the role you believe this technology will pay in the 21st century. We request that any and all visitors complete the form. This includes visitors who are in or outside the US as well as US citizens.

The results of the survey will be used to evaluate the importance that technology developments outside the US have on the United States and be used to determine the extent that US immigration laws maybe hindering the transfer of this technology.