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
USCIS Clarifies One-Year Employment Abroad Requirement for L-1 Managers, Executives & Specialized Knowledge Transferees
In a November 15, 2018 memo, USCIS clarified the one-year of employment abroad requirement for L-1 Managers, executives, and specialized knowledge transferees, which is important for an U.S. company with a subsidiary, parent, affiliate or branch outside the U.S. which...
Note on the New Labor Condition Application (LCA) form for H-1Bs, H-1B1s and E-3s
On November 19, 2018, US Department of Labor published a new Form 9035/9035E, Labor Condition Application (LCA), which must be filed and certified prior to filing any H-1B, H-1B1 or E-3 petition. The new form requires the additional information of the worksite...
New H-1B Proposed Rule Unlikely to be Implemented in Time for 2020 FY H-1B Season
According to a new proposed rule published December 3, 2018, petitioner employers who want to file H-1B petitions subject to the cap, as well as US masters cap cases, would first have to electronically register with USCIS during a fixed registration period. USCIS...
F-1 Foreign Students Need to Choose Their Majors Carefully, to Obtain the STEM Two-Year Extension of Work Authorization
F-1 foreign students with a degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) major are eligible for a total of three years of work authorization, while F-1 students with other majors are eligible for only one year of work authorization. However, there are...
Many TPS Beneficiaries Now Eligible for Green Cards
Many people who have TPS (Temporary Protected Status) will now be eligible for adjustment to permanent residency even if they entered the U.S. illegally, thanks to a new decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in California. In Ramirez et al. v. Brown, the...
US State Dept Plans to Gather Social Media Info & Email Addresses from Certain Visa Applicants of All Countries
On May 4, 2017, the U.S. State Department proposed that the government now be able to request all social media information, email addresses and phone numbers of visa applicants from any and all countries, whom they choose to subject to additional scrutiny. Claiming an...
Opportunity to Comment on CBP's Collection of Social Media Info
You have the opportunity to comment on US Custom and Border Protection’s (CBP’s) collection of social media information on Chinese citizens with 10-year B-1 or B-2 visas. All Chinese citizens with a 10-year B-1 or B-2 visa are now required to register with CBP through...
President Trump's "Buy American and Hire American" EO Fosters Nativism, Although it Will Not Bring Immediate Change in the Law
On April 18, 2017, President Trump signed an Executive Order (EO) entitled "Buy American and Hire American", stating that it will be U.S. government policy to "rigorously enforce and administer the laws governing entry into the United States of workers from abroad",...
USCIS Announces it Has Reached the FY 2018 H-1B Cap on April 7th, 2017
This is the fifth straight year that the H-1B cap has been reached within the first few days of filing in April. The first day to file H-1B petitions for this fiscal year was April 3rd, 2017 and on April 7th, USCIS announced that it had received more than enough H-1B...
New Travel Ban Exempts Iraqis, Permanent Residents, and Other Current Visa Holders. Important Legal Issues Remain.
According to the DHS Fact Sheet, Protecting The Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry To The United States issued March 5, 2017: The new Executive Order imposes a 90-day suspension of entry to the United States of foreign nationals from Sudan, Syria, Iran, Libya,...
USCIS is Suspending Premium Processing for All H-1B Petitions, Including New Cap-Subject Petitions
Starting April 3rd, USCIS is suspending premium processing of all H-1B petitions. Since April 1st is a Saturday and April 2nd is a Sunday, that means that no one will be able to request premium processing for new, cap-subject H-1B petitions. USCIS is trying to catch...
New H-1Bs Must be Filed by the First Five Business Days in April
This is a friendly reminder that it is that time of year again - H-1B season! All new, cap-subject H-1B petitions should be ready for mailing to USCIS by March 31, 2017, so that they will be received by USCIS on April 1st. Employers actually do have four more days -...
DHS Goes After All Removable Immigrants, Necessitating Vast Expansion of Prison System to Detain Large Numbers of Immigrants
DHS has decided to prioritize the removal of all undocumented or out of status aliens, with the exception of DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) recipients, in a February 17, 2017 memo from the DHS Secretary John Kelly, entitled “Enforcement of the...
March 2017 State Dept Bulletin for Employment-Based Cases
Back to more mundane topics! For March 2017, the priority dates for the first employment preference are current for the world-wide category, and current as well for China, India, Mexico and the Philippines. Second preference is current for the world-wide category....
Two Bills Introduced in Congress to Rescind Trump's EO "Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the US"
On January 30, 2017, Senator Diane Feinstein introduced a bill, S.B. 240, to rescind the President's Executive Order 137, entitled "Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States". On the same day, Representative Zoe Lofgren introduced a...