Lisa Spiegel

Practice Details

• Languages
  Spanish
  Hebrew
• Firm Information
  Position

  Partner

  Firm Name

  Duane Morris LLP
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Representative Matters: Prepares
  files hundreds of PERM applications for a consulting-based company whose staff may be assigned to various working sites throughout the U.S.
  Obtained lawful permanent residency status for two young immigrants, overcoming prior removal orders
  establishing they were eligible for relief under the Nicaraguan Adjustment
  Central American Relief Act (NACARA).
  Obtained the approval of an O-1 visa, reserved for individuals with extraordinary ability, for a Canadian citizen to accept a high level executive position with Aramark.
  Won appeal using novel argument for multinational manager/executive immigrant visa petition. Demonstrating the actual life of a Company involved in the early stages of a pharmaceutical/drug product line, notably how the company must be operational for at least one or more years prior to production
  the signing of any contract for the new product. U.S. Citizenship
  Immigration Services originally denied the petition because they presumed the company had not been doing business for the one year required for an immigrant visa based solely on the date a $12 million contract with the U.S. government had been signed to assist in the fight against chemical warfare
  not the date on which the company had begun its operations.