Immigration Law

• Citizenship and Naturalization
• Family Immigration
  Laurie Woog is recognized as a leading and creative immigration lawyer. She devotes 100% of her practice to immigration law, giving her a depth of experience many other firms lack. She represents clients in employment and family-based immigration cases throughout the country and abroad. Laurie has always been interested in the forces of migration, immigration and adaptation. Her primary goal is to fully understand her clients' situations and goals to determine the most efficient and promising course of action. Laurie's clients range from small to multi-national companies to individuals going through the immigration process in the U.S. or abroad.
• Green Cards
• Student Visas
  Scenario 2. Ravi, a mathematician from India, has been in the United States for several years on an H-1b visa working at a hedge fund in New York. He developed a new method for analyzing stock market risk which received a lot of favorable publicity. Ravi is requesting a green card based on his extraordinary ability, known as an EB-1 petition. While in the U.S. he met Jon, who is from the Philippines. They lived together for two years and recently got married in New York. Jon is on an F-1 student visa studying finance. Before DOMA, Jon would have to change to a temporary visa classification or leave the U.S. at the conclusion of his studies. Now, however, Ravi can list Jon as his spouse on the EB-1 visa petition. If it is approved, then he and Jon may both be able to receive green cards at the same time. Then they will both be able to live together permanently in the U.S.
• Family Visas
• Work Visas
  As the managing attorney, Laurie has extensive experience helping clients obtain temporary work visas such as H-1bs, L-1s, O-1s and R-1s, as well as green cards through labor certification (PERM), religious work, national interest waivers, and extraordinary ability in the arts, sciences and technology. Laurie also handles E-3 visas for Australians, green cards for outstanding professors and researchers, fiancé and marriage cases, DACA, provisional waivers and citizenship matters. She has helped several clients win complex naturalization appeals. One of Laurie's most notable successes is her 100% approval rate to date in H-1b cases, even after complex Requests for Evidence from USCIS, demonstrating her in depth approach to researching, writing and advocating for her clients.