Immigration Attorney

7 months ago


Bryanston, South Africa Tax Consulting South Africa Full time

**Vacancy: Immigration Attorney**

**Location: Bryanston**

**Requirements and Skills**:

- LLB Degree or similar qualification.
- Minimum 2 Years' experience as Admitted Attorney.
- Extensive experience in Immigration Law.
- Outbound experience, Visa's, Work permits, Liaising with Government authorities, Immigration legislation.
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Excellent verbal and written communications.
- Microsoft Office Suite proficient.
- Ability to work under pressure and tight timelines, excellent time management and multi-tasking skills.

**Responsibilities**:

- Achieve a high success rate for full caseload, including after submission of complex RFE responses.
- Manage highly demanding and detail-orient immigration litigation process as both a leader and member of the legal team.
- Track LCA and maintain DOL public access files.
- Prepare Immigrant Employment-based petitions under preference categories EB-1, EB-2 and EB-3.
- Represent and advise clients in immigration matters, including family-based immigration petitions, waivers, naturalizations, removal defense, and appeals.
- Draft all NIV matters for the sector.
- Register schools to use the SEVIS batch interfaces.
- Prepare package for H-1B visa stamping in non-immigrant employee s home country.
- Post LCA's for employment base petitions, also keeping track of LCA's.
- Create successful support letter and RFE response templates used by team members for major client.
- Work on company's propriety software for mapping LCA, employee visa tracking software and few others.

**Salary**: From R15 000,00 per month