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JAMES A. BACH

Immigration

Email: Jbach@immilaw.com
URL: http://www.immilaw.com

Mr. Bach is one of only 8% of California immigration attorneys who are certified by the State Bar of California as Certified S pecialists in Immigration and Nationality Law. James Bach has been granted the highest A/V rating by Martindale-Hubbell, which “identifies a lawyer with very high to preeminent legal ability” reflecting “expertise, experience, integrity and overall professional excellence” and “the highest professional and ethical standards.” Mr. Bach serves as a Commissioner on the State Bar's Immigration and Nationality Advisory Commission for the 2008 to 2011 term. Among other things, the Commission writes and grades the biannual California Immigration and Nationality Specialty Examination. He is also an Arbitrator for the San Francisco Bar Association.

The firm represents both corporation and individuals, with a focus on H-1B visas, PERM labor certifications, and other business immigration cases, as well as family-based immigration and complex analysis and solutions in all other areas of immigration and nationality law. Practice areas include:

ARTICLES:

A Lie Can Exclude You From the United States Forever
Job Requirements and Interviews in Labor Certification Cases
Portability: Can You Change Jobs Without Jeopardizing Your Immigration Status?
Who Can Benefit From a Labor Certification?

Areas of Practice:

· Nonimmigrant (temporary) working visa petitions and applications for H-1B professionals, L-1 intracompany transferrees, Canadian professionals using the NAFTA treaty, E-1 importers, and E-2 investors.

· Expedited green card status for Transferring Managers and Executives, Outstanding Professors and Outstanding Researchers, and Persons with Extraordinary Ability in the Arts and Sciences.

· Immigration based on marriage and other family relationships.

· Comprehensive counseling and planning for high technology companies in providing immigration benefits to engineers and software professionals from all over the world.

· National Interest Waiver cases.

· PERM Labor Certification cases nationwide.

· Adjustment of Status applications in INS offices throughout the United States, and applications for Consular Processing of Immigrant Visas at U.S. Embassies and Consulates throughout the world.

· Waivers of excludability, including J-1 waivers and waivers relating to the 5-year bar.

· Permanent residence (“green card”) status for nurses, doctors and other health care workers.

· Complex citizenship cases.

EDUCATION:

Dartmouth College 1975
University of California, Hastings College of Law, 1979.

ADMISSIONS:

State Bar Of California
Supreme Court of California
U.S. District court for the Northern District of California
U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
Hawaii State Bar Association

EMPLOYMENT:

Law Offices of James A. Bach
San Francisco, California

AREAS OF PRACTICE:

Immigration, with a concentration on obtaining working visas and green cards for professionals working for high tech companies

ORGANIZATIONS:

American Immigration Lawyers Association, 1980
Bar Association of San Francisco

DATE OF BIRTH:

May 27, 1953

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