Visas & Waivers overview
If you are coming to the United States for pleasure, business or education and are not planning on settling here, Law Offices of Milda Goeriz can help you to obtain the temporary visas and maintain your status while in the United States. We will help you to determine which particular visa your trip requires, gather the relevant documents and file the application for the necessary visa. We work with the following temporary visa applications:
- B-1/B-2 Visitor's Visas
Visas for individuals coming to the U.S. for business or pleasure visits.
- E-1/E-2 Treaty Trader and Investor Visas
Visas for investors, traders and their employees, which let them carry on their businesses in the U.S. if their home country has a commercial treaty with the US conferring visa eligibility.
- F-1 and M-1 Student Visas
Visas for persons seeking to pursue a full course of study at an academic or a vocational school in the United States and receive a practical training in their field of study.
- H-1B Specialty Occupation (Professionals) Visas
Visas for professional workers with at least a bachelor's degree (or its equivalent work experience), who may be eligible for a non-immigrant visa if their employers can demonstrate that they are to be paid at least the prevailing wage for the position.
- J-1 and Q-1 Exchange Visitor Visas
Visas for students, short-term scholars, business trainees, teachers, professors and research scholars, specialists, international visitors, government visitors, camp counselors and au pairs.
- O-1 Visa.
Visa for highly skilled professionals and athletes, which allows them to live and work in the United States on a temporary basis.
Law Offices of Milda Goeriz also handle U – Visa applications available to the victims of qualifying crimes and VAWA applications for foreign born individuals, who are or were married to an abusive citizen or permanent resident of the United States. We will help you gather all of the necessary information, complete government forms and prepare the whole packet of required documentations.
In addition, at Law Offices of Milda Goeriz we help individuals not eligible to be admitted into the United States or to adjust their status, to obtain lawful admission by filing an application for waiver of the grounds of inadmissibility.
An eligible alien can seek a waiver for the following "grounds of inadmissibility":
- Failure to possess required documentation such as green cards, US passports or visas;
- Health-related grounds such as communicable diseases and behavioral disorders;
- Certain criminal grounds such as crimes involving "moral turpitude," controlled substances, prostitution and other serious offenses;
- Immigration fraud or misrepresentation;
- Membership in a totalitarian party;
- Alien smuggling;
- Unlawful presence in the US;
- Inadmissibility based on prior removal or unlawful presence after prior immigration violations;
- Unlawful presence after a prior immigration violation;
- Likelihood to become a public charge - in jail, on welfare.
Although specific waivers exist for many of the inadmissibility grounds, it is not automatically considered or granted. In order to receive a waiver, an applicant must specifically request or apply for such treatment. We will help you to find out whether you are eligible for a waiver, to understand how the waiver process works, and we will prepare, complete and file the waiver application packet for you.
For more information about receiving a possible waiver for a ground of inadmissibility, please contact us by email, or telephone, or schedule an appointment to have your individual case discussed and analyzed by an attorney.