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
The State Dept's November 2016 Visa Bulletin for the Employment Preferences
For November 2016, the first and second employment preferences remain current worldwide. The second preference for China has progressed from a priority date of February 15, 2012 to a priority date of July 15, 2012 from October 2016 to November 2016, a leap forward of...
October 2016 State Dept. Visa Bulletin Provides Relief for EB-2
October is the beginning of the government's fiscal year, when new visa numbers become available. The October 2016 State Dept. visa bulletin provides relief to those in the worldwide EB-2 category, moving from being backlogged at February 2014 in September to being...
STEM Majors for Foreign Students
Foreign students who major in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) programs may get a total of three years of work authorization, whereas foreign students who have other majors only get one year of work authorization after graduation. Because of the severe...
The Latest National Security Threat – Taco Trucks on Every Corner
Trump surrogate Marco Gutierrez is warning of the great threat posed by immigrants, particularly Latino immigrants, stating that if the American people don't watch out, we will have "taco trucks on every corner". See the Huffington Post article,...
DHS Proposed Rule to Provide Parole to Entrepreneurs
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued a proposed regulation to increase entrepreneurship, innovation, and job creation in the United States. The proposed rule would allow the use of parole on a case-by-case basis for entrepreneurs of start-up companies...
The September 2016 Visa Bulletin Employment-Based Categories
Hopefully, all are enjoying the last month of summer and not worrying too much about the advancement of the priority dates! For those of you who will be dismayed about the state of the priority dates in the State Department's Visa Bulletin for September 2016, take...
Expanded Provisional Unlawful Presence Waiver Will Help Many Undocumented People Who Have Approved Immigration Petitions
On July 29, 2016, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published the final rule expanding the provisional unlawful presence waiver to all who are eligible for a waiver of the unlawful presence grounds of inadmissibility. Now, beneficiaries of any type of immigrant...
Protecting Your Intellectual Property Is Good For Business And Good For U.S. Immigration
If you have a business in the United States, and want to bring in an employee from abroad as an E-1 (treaty trader), E-2 (treaty investor), L-1A (managerial or executive transferee), L-1B (specialized knowledge), O-1 (alien of extraordinary ability) or H-1B (temporary...
August 2016 State Dept. Visa Bulletin Shows Retrogression in Worldwide EB-2
The August 2016 State Department Visa Bulletin shows that the worldwide EB-2 preference (for jobs that require at least a masters degree, or a bachelor's degree plus five years experience) has retrogressed to February 1, 2014, a backlog of about two and a half years....
U.S. Supreme Court Impasse in United States v. Texas a Disaster for Immigrants and the Whole Nation
On June 23, 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a short order in the United States v.Texas case, affirming the judgment in the Fifth Circuit by a vote of four to four. Because the eight justices of the Supreme Court were equally split, the undocumented parents of U.S...
Plight of businesses and professionals seeking H-1Bs unlikely to be resolved any time soon
There are only 65,000 H-1B visa numbers for temporary professionals available each year, plus an additional 20,000 visa numbers for US masters degree holders. Because there is a set-aside of an additional 6,800 visa numbers for citizens of Singapore and Chile, there...
Muslim men and women sue USCIS for delays in naturalization applications, due to USCIS's national security policy, CARRP
A group of 13 plaintiffs, Muslim men and women (including several older women between the ages of 49 and 61), has sued USCIS to challenge extensive delays in their naturalization applications, due to being included in USCIS’s policy regarding national security...
India and China EB-2 and EB-3 categories for June 2016, and for the rest of the fiscal year
Because of very high EB-2 demand worldwide, including very high EB-2 demand for India, the EB-2 category for India has retrogressed for June 2016 to October 1, 2004, and is expected to advance only very slowly for the rest of the fiscal year, which ends on September...
STEM students can find E-Verify employers with USCIS tool
STEM F-1 students are now eligible for a total of three years of OPT, as long as they are working for an employer that participates in E-Verify. If you are a STEM student you can find E-Verify employers through this link with USCIS:...
USCIS Filing Fees to Increase by 21%
On May 4, 2016, DHS announced that it will increase the USCIS filing fees for most immigration applications by about 21%. For example, the fee for Form I-129 (used for E, H, L, O, P, R petitions) will increase from $325 to $445, and Form I-140 will increase from $580...