About the Firm
We help companies and individuals with global mobility, immigration, economic sanctions, and IP (intellectual property). Attorney Heidi Meyers has more than 28 years of experience in immigration law, since 1995. We have also recently added economic sanctions and IP to our practice, to better help our clients in this rapidly changing security, regulatory, and business environment. We help immigrants, their businesses, their employers, and their family members with complex immigration issues in an all-enforcement all the time environment. We can fight for you in federal court, as Ms. Meyers is admitted in the Southern District of NY, Eastern District of New York, District of D.C., the Second Circuit, Third Circuit, and Fifth Circuit Courts of Appeals, as well as New York State. Our expertise in immigration law includes federal court litigation, business immigration, deportation and removal, inadmissibility and waivers, family immigration (petition for writ of mandamus, APA actions), temporary visas, naturalization, and denaturalization, and USMCA (TN). Extensive experience in H-1Bs (temporary professionals), L-1As (managerial or executive transferees), L-1Bs (specialized knowledge workers), E-2 (treaty investors), E-1 (treaty traders), F-1 (students), PERM labor certification, National Interest Waivers, Aliens of Extraordinary Ability, as well as deportation and removal issues, asylum, waivers of all kinds, federal court litigation.
We speak Spanish, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu, Dari, Pashtu, and Italian, and welcome people of all religions and walks of life.
Our office values our clients’ confidentiality and privacy, and our law office does not allow Work From Home (WFH). Our employees perform all office work on our law firm computers and devices, and no personal devices are allowed. Employees are prohibited from downloading or copying client information onto personal devices or using their personal phones to conduct law firm work. In-person appointments in the office to discuss your case confidentially with the attorney or bring documents are always available.
Location
Law Office of Heidi J Meyers
11 Broadway Suite 925
New York NY 10004
Our office is conveniently located at 11 Broadway, New York NY 10004 in lower Manhattan, by Battery Park, the Museum of the American Indian, and the Wall Street Bull. It is easily accessible to mass transit, including the 4 or 5 train to Bowling Green, the R or W to Whitehall Street, and the 2 or 3 to Wall Street, as well as the Staten Island Ferry. It is also within walking distance of the World Trade Center and PATH trains.
For further inquiries, please contact us at (646) 508- 5225,
(212) 791-4007 or [email protected]
We are open from Monday – Friday: 9 am to 4 pm (except national holidays), as well as Sundays by appointment only
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Immigration News and Updates
Immigration Options in the Restaurant Industry
Because the restaurant and hospitality industry relies so heavily on immigrants, and because US workers are in short supply, immigration issues arise often. We will review some of the immigration options for the restaurant industry. Immigration Options for Chefs. A...
Waivers for permanent residents in removal or deportation if they were not eligible for their green card
Permanent residents in removal or deportation may be eligible for waivers, re-adjustment or other relief from removal, such as asylum, even if they were not eligible for their green card at the time they received it. Residents may also have a statute of limitations...
H-1B Registration Process for Spring 2020
Employers who wish to file cap-subject H-1B petitions for this fiscal year, must first comply with the registration process, which runs from March 1st to March 20th 2020. The employer must first create an account through myuscis.gov, prior to March 1st. The purpose of...
Interfaith marriage, religious minority marriage & US immigration
In order for the U.S. State Dept or DHS (Department of Homeland Security) to recognize a marriage for immigration purposes, the marriage must be legal in the place where it is contracted. Not only that, there must be documentary proof the marriage actually took place,...
Does government collection of social media data violate First Amendment rights to freedom of expression and association?
Two organizations of documentary filmmakers are suing the US State Department and DHS for violating their First Amendment rights and placing them in fear for their lives, in order to stop the government's requirement that all visa applicants provide all their social...
Employers & Foreign Nationals with Delayed Immigration Cases Can Go to Federal Court to get a Decision
Employers and their employees with H-1B, Ls or Os pending for many months or more than a year have the option of going into federal district court in order to get their petitions adjudicated by USCIS. Similarly, foreign nationals and their US citizen husbands or wives...
BAHA (Buy American Hire American), and Increased Denials of Employment Visas
The Buy American and Hire American (BAHA) policy, in Executive Order No. 13877, issued by President Trump on April 14, 2017, mandated that the Department of State (DOS), Department of Justice (DOJ), Department of Labor (DOL) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS),...
SOCIAL SECURITY NO-MATCH LETTERS, I-9 AUDITS AND THEFT OF SOCIAL SECURITY ID
During 2019, more than half a million employers have already received social security no-match letters. The Social Security Administration had discontinued sending “no-match” letters (Employer Correction Request Notices - EDCOR) in 2011, but during 2019, the SSA is...
New State Dept Public Charge Rule in Effect Shortly and Will Apply to Almost All Immigrant Visa Applications
On October 11, 2019, the US Department of State (“State Dept”) published a new public charge rule, to go into effect in 60 days, which applies to almost all immigrant visa applications. See, 84 Fed.Reg. 198, at 54996-55015. The new State Dept rule closely tracks the...
You can be deported from the US for smuggling your own child, and even if you were paid nothing?
You can be barred from the US for smuggling, even if of your own child, and even if you were not paid. The Trump administration is going after ordinary immigrants with both criminal and civil smuggling charges, even if they are not connected to professional criminal...
PERM Labor Certification for Medical Doctors
For physicians, as well as for all other foreign nationals, obtaining a green card through the PERM labor certification process actually has three steps and three separate applications: 1) First, is the PERM labor certification, filed with the US Department of Labor;...
ICE Begins Workplace Inspections of Companies with F-1 OPT STEM Employees.
ICE has begun workplace inspections of employers who have F-1 OPT STEM workers. Thus, if a company has an employee with the two-year extension of OPT work authorization limited to those F-1 students with STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Math) degrees, the...
New DHS Rule To Collect Social Media Data to Enter the US and to Apply for Permanent Residency, Naturalization, Asylum, and Advance Parole
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued a proposed rule requiring collection of all social media sites used for the past five years, including user names, not only to enter the U.S., but also on numerous immigration applications, including those for permanent...
New Public Charge Rule Will Harm Many Middle and Working-class Immigrants Who Have Never Taken Public Assistance.
The new Public Charge rule will harm many middle and working class immigrants who have never taken public assistance. The Trump administration’s new rule appears aimed to target all the middle and working class families and young people who believe in the American...
Drug Convictions, the Categorical Approach and Deportability/Removability.
The Immigration Judge must use the categorical approach when analyzing whether a conviction for a crime constitutes a ground of removability under the INA (Immigration and Nationality Act). The facts are irrelevant, only the minimum conduct required to meet each of...