Specialties
Do you have immigration questions based upon employment, investment, extraordinary achievement, family, or the diversity visa lottery? We can help with careful advice and processing of various cases including : temporary work permits and visas, consular processing, responses to requests for evidence (RFE) and notices of intent to deny (NOID), changes of status, extensions of status, adjustments of status to legal permanent residence, green card renewals, re-entry permits, marriage / fiancé(e) visas, US citizenship, and LGBT immigration. We also provide immigration compliance counseling for start-ups and for corporate restructuring issues that arise through M&A activity or significant changes in ownership and control. Our clients include individuals and companies all over the U.S. in a variety of industries, from start-ups to large publicly-traded corporations. Our multilingual staff can work with you in French and Spanish.
History
Established in 2006.
We began in San Francisco in 2006, and opened a second office in Bellevue in 2020.
Meet the Business Owner: Paul Philippe B.
Paul Philippe Bertoni (aka Jean-Paul) holds degrees from Yale (B.A. in Political Science 1993) and UC Berkeley-Boalt Hall School of Law (J.D. 1997). He is admitted in New York and New Jersey, and may practice immigration law nationwide under federal law. Paul is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and the French American Chambers of Commerce of San Francisco, NYC, and the Pacific Northwest. He has presented several talks on immigration law with organizations such as AILA, the FACCSF, the French Tech Hub, BusinessFrance, and the California CPA Association. He was born and raised in New York City, to Haitian immigrant parents who came to work in the USA as medical doctors. Over the years, Paul has traveled extensively to visit family in Latin America, francophone Europe, and Canada. Paul is fluent in French, Spanish, and English. He also has some basic conversational skills in Italian and Haitian Kreyol