Chris Costa

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Christopher Costa represents foreign national investors through both the immigration and business start-up process, as well as multinational companies transferring and onboarding foreign national employees. He handles non-immigrant and immigrant petitions and applications for corporate clientele before USCIS  and U.S. Consular posts including L-1 blankets, individual L-1’s, E-1’s, E-2’s, EB-1C’s, EB-5’s, H-1B’s, TN’s, O-1’s, EB-1A’s and E-3’s, as well as responses to Requests for Evidence and 221(g) requests.

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has announced that, effective Oct. 1, the COVID-19 vaccine is included in the list of vaccines required for applicants to obtain permanent residence and refugee status. By way of background, the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), at section 212(a)(1)(A)(ii), sets out the requirement that, in order to…

On Jan. 8, 2021 the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a final rule, effective March 9, 2021, amending the regulations governing the process by which U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) selects H-1B registrations for the filing of H-1B cap-subject petitions. Pursuant to the final rule, USCIS will deviate from the current process…