Global Immigration & Mobility

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Caribou

Caribou is Seyfarth’s proprietary immigration management platform, powered by Salesforce. Caribou turns a complex and potentially confusing immigration process into a manageable and predictable journey for clients and foreign nationals alike. Learn more about Caribou or log in below. 

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Employers who source talent globally must navigate a regulatory and bureaucratic maze to ensure that the foreign national talent they recruit is available when promised, is delivered within budget, and arrives with a positive experience. A strategic, forward-thinking immigration and global mobility program is a competitive advantage for employers who seek to attract and retain top talent.

HOW WE HELP

Our Global Immigration & Mobility group presents a powerful combination of legal knowledge and business capabilities, leveraging custom-developed technology to provide best-in-class legal services and portfolio management programs for a wide variety of US and global corporations. Working with clients that employ thousands of foreign nationals has allowed us to develop a robust infrastructure for large program management and has provided the experience needed to resolve nuanced immigration challenges that arise for companies with global mobility needs.

Our Global Immigration & Mobility team has attorneys and allied professionals located across Atlanta, Boston, Houston, New York, Los Angeles, DC, and Europe, working from a state of the art, innovative platform to help our clients strategically and programmatically manage workforces and leverage global talent.

Our expertise with business immigration portfolio management enables global employers to meet challenges head on by offering the collective experiences of highly-experienced immigration attorneys working collaboratively to define and execute upon best practices. Our long-standing dedication to innovation in the immigration space further enhances the user experience and efficiencies we deliver, and we are on the forefront of leveraging state-of-the-art technology offerings (including the application of AI to immigration legal service delivery).

OUR SERVICES

We help our clients with:

• End-to-end business immigration program management, including temporary work visas (H-1B, L-1, E, O, TN, etc.) and permanent residency applications.
• Developing a unified platform for addressing immigration and talent mobility issues worldwide (regardless of destination country).
• Navigating the immigration implications of M&A activity and workforce changes.
• Advice and counsel on strategic positioning in response to policy and regulatory changes.
• Advocacy on policy development and resolution of high-profile matters via direct engagement with government authorities.
• Workforce compliance matters, including I-9, E-Verify, and enforcement activities from government agencies (Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices, Department of Labor, etc.)

Business Immigration Litigation

If a matter solution requires litigation, Seyfarth is uniquely positioned to handle the most challenging business immigration litigation cases. Led by Leon Rodriguez, a former federal prosecutor and Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the team is experienced with mandamus, Administrative Procedure Act, and declaratory judgment cases, offering a combination of skilled litigation capabilities, deep immigration knowledge, and extensive government contacts.

THE SEYFARTH EXPERIENCE

Our Global Immigration & Mobility team offers a compelling client experience. We function as an integrated national organization, with day-to-day interaction, a shared technology infrastructure, and engagement among attorneys in all the firm's offices and departments. Through our collaborative culture and innovative national platform, we offer clients cost efficiencies for discrete issues as well as high-level strategic guidance on complex and sophisticated immigration matters.

We also understand that our clients need to be able to "tell the immigration story" to business stakeholders in meaningful and compelling ways. Our reporting and analytics capabilities (supported by a dedicated team) identifies trends and uncovers insights revealed in the immigration program data, visualizing those findings in accessible and impactful ways.

Our team is continuously focused on creating novel mechanisms to eliminate pain points otherwise experienced in the business immigration world.