Immigration Attorney Serving Fairfax, VA

Fairfax — the larger area surrounding George Mason University and the Fairfax County Government Center — is the geographic and demographic heart of Northern Virginia. Our clients in Fairfax include Mason faculty and graduate students working on F-1 OPT and H-1B sponsorship, federal contractors at the Inova Center for Personalized Health, and a steady flow of small-business owners along Lee Highway, Pickett Road, and the Route 50 corridor. Because Mason is a designated cap-exempt employer for some appointments and a regular cap petitioner for others, we map H-1B strategy carefully and often layer in O-1 or EB-1A timing for researchers whose work has crossed into international recognition. For Mason's foreign-born MBA and STEM master's graduates, we plan the OPT-to-cap-H-1B transition with a realistic backup plan that includes O-1, cap-exempt placement, or concurrent EB-1A filing.

Fairfax's South Asian, Afghan, and Middle Eastern communities give our practice a deep humanitarian caseload. We represent Afghan SIV holders and asylum applicants who arrived through Operation Allies Welcome, Pakistani and Iranian families pursuing asylum and adjustment, and Iraqi and Syrian clients on parallel humanitarian and family pathways. We handle EB-2 NIW filings for the doctors and engineers among them, and we file I-751 and N-400 petitions as those families move from conditional residence to citizenship. For Afghan clients whose SIV files were pulled out of Kabul in 2021 with incomplete documentation, we rebuild the evidentiary record so the I-485 and the eventual N-400 succeed despite gaps in the original paperwork.

On the employer side, Fairfax businesses come to us for PERM labor certifications, EB-1C multinational manager filings, and the immigration audits that follow when an I-9 inspection or a site visit catches a company off-guard. We handle the document review, the response to ICE's Notice of Inspection, and the legal posture for the resulting fines or compliance order. For startups along the Mason-Fairfax corridor, we file E-2 treaty investor, L-1A new-office, and International Entrepreneur Parole petitions, and we structure the cap table and the source-of-funds record so an EB-5 filing remains an option down the road. We serve Fairfax and the surrounding communities of Fairfax City, Fairfax Station, Burke, and Annandale.