Immigration Counsel · Smithtown, New York
Immigration Attorney Serving Smithtown, NY
Smithtown in Suffolk County is a long-established North Shore community with a strong professional population, substantial South Asian, Filipino, Italian-American, and Eastern European families, and a strong commuter base on the LIRR Port Jefferson branch. Our Smithtown caseload draws from across that mix, and we serve clients remotely as a national U.S. immigration practice with secure document portals and after-hours video consultations that accommodate commuter and clinical schedules. The Smithtown docket includes a substantial volume of employer-sponsored and self-petition work — H-1B specialty occupation petitions, EB-2 and EB-3 PERM green cards, EB-2 NIW self-petitions, EB-1A self-petitions, and O-1A petitions for clients whose record carries an extraordinary-ability claim.
For Smithtown professionals at St. Catherine of Siena Hospital, Stony Brook Medicine satellites, and the surrounding clinical infrastructure, we handle J-1 waivers, H-1B conversions, EB-2 NIW physician petitions, EB-1B outstanding-researcher cases, and EB-3 PERM nursing filings. For Smithtown engineers and scientists at the Hauppauge corporate corridor and the major aerospace and defense employers along the Bethpage corridor, we file EB-2 NIW and EB-1A petitions built on publications, citations, conference presentations, and judging service.
Smithtown families come to us for marriage-based green cards, I-130 parent and sibling petitions, K-1 fiancé visas, I-751 conditional-residency removals, I-601A provisional waivers, and naturalization. Humanitarian work in Smithtown includes affirmative asylum, VAWA, U-visa, and T-visa relief, and TPS renewals for clients from designated countries. For Smithtown entrepreneurs running restaurants, retail, professional-services firms, and trades businesses along the Main Street corridor, we file E-2 treaty investor petitions where nationality qualifies and L-1A new-office cases. We serve Smithtown and the surrounding Suffolk communities of Hauppauge, Commack, Huntington, Ronkonkoma, and St. James. Whether the matter is a self-petitioned green card built on a record of research, art, business, or athletics, an employer-sponsored case that requires tight coordination with HR and counsel, a family reunification petition filed alongside consular processing, or a humanitarian or removal-defense matter where the stakes are measured in years and in family separation, we approach every Smithtown case with the documentation discipline, candor about timelines, and responsiveness that immigration matters deserve.
Immigration Services We Provide in Smithtown
Self-Petition Permanent Residencies
Employment-Based Permanent Residencies
EB-1B Outstanding Professors
For internationally recognized researchers and professors.
Learn more →EB-1C Multinational Managers
For executives and managers of multinational companies.
Learn more →EB-2 PERM
Advanced degree professionals with labor certification.
Learn more →EB-3 Professional
For professionals with bachelor's degrees.
Learn more →EB-3 Skilled Workers
For skilled workers with at least 2 years experience.
Learn more →EB-4 Special Immigrants
Religious workers, broadcasters, and other special categories.
Learn more →Nonimmigrant & Temporary Work Visas
H-1B Specialty Occupation
For professionals in specialty occupations requiring a degree.
Learn more →H-1B Cap Exempt
Universities, research organizations, and nonprofits.
Learn more →L-1A Executive/Manager
Intracompany transferee executives and managers.
Learn more →L-1B Specialized Knowledge
Intracompany transferee with specialized knowledge.
Learn more →O-1A Extraordinary Ability
For extraordinary ability in sciences, education, business, or athletics.
Learn more →O-1B Arts & Entertainment
For extraordinary ability in arts, motion picture, or TV industry.
Learn more →E-1 Treaty Trader
For nationals of treaty countries engaged in substantial trade.
Learn more →E-2 Treaty Investor
For nationals of treaty countries with substantial investments.
Learn more →TN NAFTA Professional
For Canadian and Mexican professionals under USMCA.
Learn more →H-2A Agricultural Workers
Temporary agricultural workers from designated countries.
Learn more →H-2B Non-Agricultural Workers
Temporary non-agricultural seasonal workers.
Learn more →H-3 Trainee Visa
For receiving training not available in home country.
Learn more →P-1 Athletes & Entertainers
Internationally recognized athletes and entertainment groups.
Learn more →P-3 Cultural Performers
Artists and entertainers in culturally unique programs.
Learn more →R-1 Religious Workers
Ministers and religious workers serving in the U.S.
Learn more →Investment & Entrepreneur Visas
Family-Based Immigration
Marriage-Based Green Card
Permanent residency through marriage to a U.S. citizen or LPR.
Learn more →K-1 Fiancé(e) Visa
Visa to bring a foreign fiancé(e) to the U.S. for marriage.
Learn more →Family Petitions (I-130)
Petition for parents, children, spouses, and siblings.
Learn more →Removal of Conditions (I-751)
Convert a 2-year conditional green card to a 10-year card.
Learn more →Humanitarian Relief
Asylum
Protection for those persecuted in their home country.
Learn more →U-Visa Crime Victims
For victims of certain crimes who assist law enforcement.
Learn more →VAWA Self-Petition
For abused spouses, parents, and children of U.S. citizens or LPRs.
Learn more →T-Visa Trafficking
For victims of human trafficking in the United States.
Learn more →TPS Temporary Protected Status
Temporary status for nationals of designated countries.
Learn more →Special Immigrant Juvenile
For minors who cannot be reunited with one or both parents.
Learn more →Convention Against Torture
Protection from removal to countries where torture is likely.
Learn more →Citizenship & Naturalization
Naturalization & Citizenship
N-400 applications to become a U.S. citizen.
Learn more →Medical Disability Exception
N-648 waiver of English and civics testing requirements.
Learn more →Certificate of Citizenship
N-600 certificates for those who acquired citizenship at birth or through parents.
Learn more →Waivers
I-601 Waiver
Waiver of inadmissibility for grounds such as fraud, criminal, or unlawful presence.
Learn more →I-601A Waiver
Provisional unlawful presence waiver for consular processing.
Learn more →I-212 Waiver
Permission to reapply after deportation or removal.
Learn more →I-192 Waiver
Nonimmigrant waiver for inadmissibility for temporary entry.
Learn more →Conrad Waiver
Conrad 30 J-1 waiver for physicians serving underserved areas.
Learn more →J-1 Waiver
Waivers of the 2-year foreign residency requirement.
Learn more →I-131 Travel Document
Reentry permits, refugee travel documents, and advance parole.
Learn more →Litigation
Deportation Defense
Representation in immigration court removal proceedings.
Learn more →Cancellation of Deportation
Defense against removal for long-term residents who qualify.
Learn more →Federal Court Litigation
Appeals and challenges to USCIS, ICE, and consular decisions.
Learn more →Mandamus
Federal court action to compel adjudication of unreasonably delayed cases.
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