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Labor and employment
Within Immigration, Ford & Harrison LLP is a third tier firm,
Ford & Harrison LLP is another large labor and employment law boutique that has 19 offices across the US. The firm’s immigration practice group is dedicated to advising clients on the hiring or transferring of foreign employees in compliance with the Immigration Reform and Control Act. Its immigration lawyers provide a full range of services to clients, including start-up immigration and employment law advice for new companies; volume immigration management; temporary employment visas; permanent residence; citizenship and naturalization; consular processing; international visa services, visa revalidation and reentry permits; consulting with tax and employee benefits specialists on expatriate issues; I-9 compliance training and audits; and administrative appeals and litigation. The firm recently registered a British-owned multinational derivatives trading company at the American Embassy in London for issuance of E-2 Treaty Investor visas. The firm also recently provided immigration advice to a multinational industrial company and its tax advisors to develop a policy for implications of US departure tax on long-time permanent residents, who would relinquish green cards upon repatriation or retirement overseas. It also developed strategy and exposure analysis for an IT staffing company to remedy noncompliance with USCIS and DOL H-1B regulations. Key clients include Imerys Pigments Inc, Balfour Beatty plc, Mitsubishi Power Systems and Votorantim Cimentos North America. Atlanta-based Joycelyn Fleming and Charles Roach in Minneapolis are both highly experienced immigration practitioners, and are recommended.