Laura Foote Reiff focuses her practice on business immigration laws and regulations affecting U.S. and foreign companies, as well as related employment compliance and legislative issues.
Laura advises corporations on a variety of compliance-related issues, particularly related to Form I-9 alien employment verification matters. Laura has been involved in audits and internal investigations and has successfully minimized monetary exposure as well as civil and criminal liabilities on behalf of her clients. She develops immigration compliance strategies and programs for both small and large companies. Laura performs I-9, H-1B and H-2B compliance inspections during routine internal reviews, while performing due diligence (in the context of a merger, acquisition or sale) or while defending a company against a government investigation. Laura publishes and frequently lectures on I-9 issues, including penalties for failure to act in accordance with government regulations, anti-discrimination laws and employers' responsibilities upon receiving social security "no-match" letters.
Laura represents many businesses in creating, managing and using "Regional Centers" that can create indirect jobs toward the 10 new U.S. jobs whose creation can give rise to EB-5 permanent residence for investment. She coordinates this work with attorneys practicing in securities law compliance, with economists identifying "targeted employment areas" and projecting indirect job creation, and with licensed securities brokers coordinating offerings. She also represents individual investors in obtaining conditional permanent residence and in removing conditions from permanent residence.
Laura’s practice also consists of managing business immigration matters and providing immigration counsel to address the visa and work authorization needs of U.S. and global personnel including professionals, managers and executives, treaty investors/ traders, essential workers, persons of extraordinary ability, corporate trainees, and students. She specifically advises and assists multinational corporations in the industrial, retail and service industries, real estate, health care, pharmaceutical and technology sectors in all aspects of U.S. immigration law.
- Northern Virginia
1750 Tysons Boulevard, Suite 1000
McLean, VA 22102
- The George Washington University, J.D., graduated 1989
- American University, BA, graduated 1986
- District of Columbia, The District of Columbia Bar
- Maryland, Maryland State Bar Association
- American Bar Association - Member
- Board of Trustees, American Immigration Law Foundation - Member
- District of Columbia Bar Association - Member
- Essential Worker Immigration Coalition - Legal Counsel
- Federal Bar Association - Member
- HRLA, Washington, D.C. Metro - Co-Chair
- Maryland Bar Association - Member
- U.S. Chamber of Commerce - Member
597 The Best Lawyers in America® awards
284 Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America awards
- Immigration Law
- Business
- Business Immigration
- Compliance
- "Legislative Advocate of the Year," AILA (DC Chapter), 2006
- "F.E.W.A. Legislative Champion Award," 2006
- SmartCEO, "Greater Washington Legal Elite," 2006
- The Legal Times, "Leading Lawyers in Immigration," 2006
- Law360 "Employment Practice Group of the Year," 2011 & 2013
- Human Resource Executive magazine, "The Nation’s Most Powerful Immigration Attorneys – Top 20," 2011-2013
- Super Lawyers magazine, Washington, D.C. Super Lawyers, 2012-2013
- Chambers USA Guide, 2006-2013
- Chambers Global, Immigration - Business, 2008-2013
- The Legal 500 United States, 2009-2013 "Labor and Employment - Immigration - Leading Lawyers," 2012-2013
- Washingtonian magazine's "Top Lawyers," 2013
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