Immigration & Naturalization Law

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Damon Key Leong Kupchak Hastert has one of Hawaii’s Oldest and Largest Immigration Practice Groups

Damon Key’s Immigration Law Practice Group has served families and businesses in Hawaii and worldwide for over 25 years and provides a full spectrum of services under U.S. immigration law, including immigrant and non-immigrant visa petitions with USCIS and consular processing, U.S. citizenship and naturalization, employer I-9 compliance and internal audits, immigration law consultation in connection with corporate restructuring or mergers and acquisitions, BIA and AAO appeals, and federal court litigation. Many of our attorneys are conversant in Japanese, Mandarin, Vietnamese, and French, in addition to English.

We have in-depth knowledge and extensive experience helping individuals, employers, and investors navigate the complicated U.S. immigration process and stay in compliance with the current changing U.S. immigration landscape.

Our legal services include:

• Immigrant Visas and Lawful Permanent Residence
  – Based upon marriage and family ties in the U.S., or employment with American companies, as well as for religious workers, multinational executives, immigrant investors, individuals of extraordinary ability in athletics, academics, the arts, and the sciences, or applicants for a National Interest Waiver.
  – For employment-based immigrant visas, we also handle all matters regarding the U.S. Department of Labor recruitment requirements and the Application for Permanent Employment Certification.
  – Adjustment of Status and Consular Processing representation.
  – Advice on work permits, advance parole, removal of conditions, maintenance of lawful permanent resident status, re-entry permit applications, I-551 stamps, and travel-related issues.
• Non-immigrant Visas
  – Visitor and Student Visas: B-1/B-2 visitor visas, F-1 student visas and OPTs, extension and change of stay
  – Fiancé and Fiancées: K-1 visa
  – Work Visas:
  ✓ L-1 intra-company transferees, Blanket L program,
  ✓ E-1 treaty traders, E-2 treaty investors and employees,
  ✓ H-1B specialty occupation workers, and E-3 visas,
  ✓ R-1 visas for religious ministers and religious workers
  ✓ TN visas
  ✓ H-2A agricultural workers and H-2B temporary nonagricultural workers.

  – J1 visa: J1 intern, trainee, exchange visitor waiver of home country residency requirements
  – Individuals with Extraordinary Ability: O visas for individuals with extraordinary ability in the sciences, education, business, athletics, the arts, or the motion picture and television industry, and their essential support personnel
  – Entertainers, athletes, and musical groups: P visas

• Guidance to U.S. employers regarding compliance with U.S. immigration law.
• Waivers of inadmissibility for both immigrants and non-immigrants.
• U.S. Citizenship – Naturalization applications, applications for Certificates of Citizenship, and derivative citizenship under the Child Citizenship Act.