Business & Entertainment-related Immigration, Family & Humanitarian Immigration:

Valente Law provides U.S. immigration legal services to individuals and businesses worldwide. As U.S. immigration law is federal law, Valente Law provides services throughout the United States, representing individuals and businesses before all United States immigration courts and offices worldwide and all United States Consulates and Embassies located worldwide.

Valente Law is a full-service immigration and naturalization practice, offering a wide range of business, entertainment-related, family-based and humanitarian immigration services to indviduals and companies seeking lawful nonimmigrant and immigrant status in the United States as well as those individuals seeking United States citizenship.

Recognizing the importance of family unity, Valente Law offers family-related immigration legal services to individual clients, including waivers to promote family unity, and ensuring spouses, children, and/or relatives can follow to join or accompany the client if the law permits.

Further, Valente law is committed to the pursuit of justice in protecting victims of abuse, human trafficking and other crimes and therefore assists eligible victims in obtaining humanitarian immigration relief in the form of U or T temporary lawful nonimmigrant status(may be eligible to apply for permanent residence after three years) or VAWA lawful permanent residence in the United States.

Core areas served:

• Employment Eligibility Compliance
• Nonimmigrant ("Temporary") Visas
• Legal Permanent Residence ("Green Cards")
• Consular Processing/Adjustment of Status
• Humanitarian Nonimmigrant and Immigrant Relief
• U.S. Citizenship

Core services provided:

• Entertainment visas for artists, entertainers, and other members of the entertainment industry

• Visas for fashion models and other professionals of extraordinary ability in the sciences, education, business, or athletics, including essential support persons (athletics)

• Foreign Information Media Visas

• Specialty Occupations Visas

• TN NAFTA Professional Visas

• Exchange Visitor Visas

• International Cultural Exchange Visitor Visa

• Visas for qualifed foreign-citizen fiancé(e)s (of U.S. citizens) and their unmarried children

• Visas for qualified spouses and unmarried children of legal permanent residents awaiting final completion of their immigration process

• Consular processing services for nonimmigrant and immigrant visa matters

• Employment-based petitions for lawful permanent resident status (extraordinary ability, national interest waivers, multi-national executives, professors/researchers, physicians, nurses, and nannies)

• Family-based immediate relative and preference petitions for lawful permanent resident status

• U and T Nonimmigrant Visas for victims of human trafficking & other crimes

• VAWA relief for victims of abuse to obtain legal permanent residency

• Applications for U.S. Naturalization

U.S. immigration law is a complex area of federal law that involves several federal agencies, including the Department of State, Department of Homeland Security, which includes the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and the Department of Labor. The law is constantly in flux and navigating it can be a daunting task.

Valente Law is committed to providing the best immigration strategies tailored to client needs and legal services of the highest quality in a prompt, courteous, cost-effective, and ethical manner. By staying abreast of the latest developments in the law, Valente Law guides clients through the morass of Homeland Security and State Department rules and regulations and timely and efficiently prepares immigration applications and petitions necessary to facilitate the immigration process.

• Trade and Investment Visas