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Kate Kalmykov

Kate Kalmykov Co-Chairs the Immigration & Compliance Practice. She focuses her practice on business immigration and compliance. She represents clients in a wide-range of employment based immigrant and non-immigrant visa matters including students, trainees, professionals, managers and executives, artists and entertainers, treaty investors and traders, persons of extraordinary ability and immigrant investors.

Kate has deep experience working on EB-5 immigrant investor matters. She regularly works with developers across a variety of industries, as well as private equity funds on developing new projects that qualify for EB-5 investments. This includes creation of new Regional Centers, having projects adopted by existing Regional Centers or through pooled individual EB-5 petitions. For existing Regional Centers, Kate regularly helps to prepare amendment filings, file exemplar petitions, address removal of conditions issues and ensure that they develop an internal program for ongoing compliance with applicable immigration regulations and guidance. She also counsels foreign nationals on obtaining greencards through either individual or Regional Center EB-5 investments, as well as issues related to I-829 Removal of Conditions.

Kate also works with various human resources departments on I-9 employment verification matters as well as H-1B and LCA compliance. She regularly counsels employers on due diligence issues including internal audits and reviews, as well as minimization of exposure and liabilities in government investigations.

In this episode of the Immigration Insights podcast series, Kate Kalmykov, co-chair of Greenberg Traurig’s Immigration & Compliance Practice, is joined by Don Aviv, CEO of Interfor International, to tackle

Continue Reading Immigration Insights Episode 19 | Guarding the Global Workforce: Security Challenges in Immigration and Global Mobility

In this timely episode of Immigration Insights, hosts Kate Kalmykov and Courtney Noce, co-chairs of Greenberg Traurig’s Global Immigration & Compliance Group, address major developments in the U.S. immigration landscape.
Continue Reading Immigration Insights Episode 18 | Navigating Immigration in Flux: What Employers Need to Know About the H-1B Fee, Project Firewall, and Compliance

The U.S. Department of State’s National Visa Center (NVC) has issued updated guidance that impacts employment-based immigrant visa applicants, including EB-5 investors. This change is especially relevant for globally mobile

Continue Reading NVC Update: Residency Proof Now Required for Employment-Based and EB-5 Immigrant Visa Applicants

The Department of Labor (DOL)’s new Project Firewall has become a much discussed—and misunderstood—development in U.S. business immigration. Announced in September 2025, this initiative signals an increased focus on federal

Continue Reading Facts vs. Fiction – Project Firewall and the New Era of H-1B Enforcement

The E-Verify system is officially back online and will continue to remain online for the duration of the government shutdown; it may be time to catch up on any employment verification cases that were delayed during the outage.
Continue Reading E-Verify Is Back Online — Employer Considerations