Greenberg Traurig LLP

Immigration - International

Managing Shareholder & Co-Chair, Global Immigration

Laura Foote Reiff Co-Chairs the Business Immigration & Compliance Practice and is the Co-Managing Shareholder of the Northern Virginia Office. She also Co-Chairs the firm’s Labor & Employment Practice’s International Employment, Immigration & Workforce Strategies group. Laura focuses her practice on business immigration laws and regulations affecting U.S. and foreign companies, as well as related employment compliance and legislative issues.

ConcentrationsImmigration advocacyCompliance and worksite enforcementI-9 Employment Eligibility VerificationPermanent and temporary international transfers of personnelObtaining U.S. nonimmigrant visas, including professional visas (H-1B), intracompany transferee visa (L-1), treaty trader/investor visas (E-1/E-2), student visas (F-1), scholar and exchange visas (J-1), cultural visas (Q), and extraordinary ability/artist/athlete visas (O and P)Compliance with Export control requirementsNaturalizationOutbound assistance with visa needs in other countriesLitigationAdvice concerning withholding of social security and taxation of foreign nationals and corporationsCorporate restructuringsImmigration Status of Foreign National WorkplaceGlobal human capital solutions

CapabilitiesImmigration & ComplianceLabor & EmploymentGovernment Law & Policy

Admission to PracticeDistrict of ColumbiaMarylandU.S. Court of International Trade‡ Admitted in the District of Columbia and Maryland. Not admitted in Virginia. Practice limited to federal immigration practice.

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J.D., with honors, The George Washington University Law School, 1989 B.A., Legal Institutions, Economics and Government, magna cum laude, American University, 1986