Heidi J. Meyers

YOUR ATTORNEY

Heidi J. Meyers

More than 31 years of focused immigration practice in Lower Manhattan. Attorney Meyers is admitted to the Southern District of NY, Eastern District of New York, District of D.C., the Second Circuit, as well as New York State.

Attorney Meyers is fluent in Spanish and her Italian and French are good. She is studying Arabic.

The firm serves clients in Dari, English, Hindi, Italian, Pashto, Punjabi, Spanish, and Urdu.

The Law Office of Heidi J Meyers concentrates on providing comprehensive legal representation in United States immigration and visa processing. We do both litigation (in immigration court and in federal court) and business immigration.

Career and Practice

Attorney Meyers started her career in immigration law in 1995, representing clients in immigration court, for a firm with a predominantly Chinese clientele. In 1997, she started her own law firm. For almost two decades, she had a practice that was about 75% employment and business immigration. From 1998-2016, for 18 years, she was immigration counsel for Visionet Systems, Inc., a premier digital technology services firm, and its parent company, Systems Ltd, which is listed on the Pakistan stock exchange.

During that time, she also assisted a variety of other companies with business immigration needs, as well as entrepreneurs starting up their own business in the US through E-2 (treaty investor) and E-1 (treaty trader).

After 9/11, she represented clients in FBI interviews and NSEERS (National Security Entry-Exit Registration System) reporting, as well as APA delay /mandamus cases on behalf of Muslim clients whose immigration applications were affected by delays in FBI checks. She also has always represented clients in a variety of family immigration, asylum, and naturalization cases.

Federal Court Litigation

For the past decade, her practice has shifted more towards federal court litigation, including APA unreasonable delay/mandamus cases, and incorrectly denied immigration petitions and applications.

Recently, she has represented numerous immigrant doctors whose work permits (EAD)s and H-1Bs were delayed by USCIS due to the 39-country halt in processing policy, and successfully obtained the approved EADs or H-1Bs so all were able to return to work.

She has successfully represented other immigrant clients in delay cases, where the delay was causing the client irreparable injury.

Family, Inadmissibility, Waivers, as well as EB-1 and EB-2 Cases

She represents US citizens and permanent residents who are sponsoring their family members in marriage and family cases, as well as inadmissibility issues and various types of waivers. She also handles J-1 waivers for physicians based on persecution or hardship. She still enjoys doing EB-1 and EB-2 NIW (National Interest Waiver) petitions. After the US pulled out of Afghanistan in August 2021, she assisted Afghans coming to the US, through World Education Services.

Business Counsel and Brand Protection

For the past five years, she has been General Counsel for streetwear and lifestyle brand, Stainbandz LLC/SB Studios NYC LLC, assisting with company formation, warehouse leases, trademark and copyright applications, cease and desist and DMCA letters against counterfeiters and cyber pirates, and will be initiating federal litigation under the ACPA, trademark and copyright infringement.

Earlier Public Service

Prior to becoming an immigration attorney, she was a Probation Officer with NYC Department of Probation, investigating juvenile cases in the late 1980s, the bad old days of the crack epidemic. She also worked in the Extraditions Unit of the Kings County District Attorneys Office.

Credentials

• Admitted to the Federal Bar (Southern District of New York, Eastern District of New York, District of D.C., and the Second Circuit)
• Admitted to the New York State Bar
• Member, American Immigration Lawyers Association
• Member, Federal Bar Association
• First Editor of APAC Newsletter, APAC Asia-Pacific Chapter of AILA.
• APAC Communications Committee
• Member, Association of the Bar of the City of New York
• Juris Doctor, New York University School of Law
• Masters in International Relations, New York University
• Bachelor in Government, Cornell University
• Certificate from the U.S. Department of Commerce in Complying with U.S. Export Controls

Public Engagement

The office keeps up-to-date with changes in immigration laws and regulations. Ms. Meyers has given regular talks on immigration at the Ecuadorian Consulate. She has written columns on immigration laws and regulations for several newspapers, appeared on radio and television to discuss U.S. immigration law, and spoken at immigration conferences held by the Federal Bar Association.