Kempster, Keller & Lenz-Calvo represents both employers and employees to design and deliver strategies that fit with institutional or individual career goals. While we are based in Chicago, our employment-based immigration practice truly has a global reach as we regularly represent universities, researchers,  professionals, artists and athletes from around the globe. We can help assess your options and design a strategy that will help you build your future and your business in the United States.

Our attorneys possess expertise in the complicated and always changing employment-based immigration field and are known for their successful practice in complicated areas such as PERM, H-1B visas, and the self-petition options (EB-1, NIW, E visas and EB-5).  Kempster, Keller & Lenz-Calvo’s significant experience includes all aspects of nonimmigrant and immigrant visa petitions, and as much as sixty percent of our practice relates to employment-based immigration matters.   

Our attorneys are also accomplished in assisting employers with government agency appeals and audits including US Citizenship and Immigration Services, Immigration and Customs Enforcements (I-9 compliance) and the Department of Labor.

Common Non-immigrant Visas:
H-1B: Specialty Occupations
H-2B: Seasonal or Temporary Workers
H-3: Trainees
E: Treaty Traders/Investors
L-1A: Multinational Executives or Managers
L-1B: Multinational Employees with Specialized Knowledge
O: Aliens of Extraordinary Ability
P-1: Athletes and Group Entertainers
P-3: Culturally Unique Artists & Entertainers
R-1: Religious Workers

Immigrant Visas:
EB-1: Extraordinary Ability, Outstanding Researcher, Multinational Executives & Managers
EB-2: National Interest Waiver (NIW)
EB-2 and EB-3: Labor Certification (PERM)
Special Handling
Schedule A Petitions for Physical Therapists and Nurses
Religious Workers
EB-5: Entrepreneurs