U.S. Immigration Lawyer in NYC - Karin Wolman

Karin Wolman is a graduate of Columbia University and UCLA School of Law. She began preparing employment-based visa petitions at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the nation’s oldest performing arts center, when the O and P visa categories were first introduced for performing artists, obtaining visas for touring theater, opera and dance companies, musicians, multimedia artists, and children’s entertainment groups. Since 1996, Ms. Wolman has practiced business immigration in a law firm setting in New York.

Ms. Wolman serves a diverse array of institutional and individual clients in the sciences and technology, finance, education, healthcare, social services, religious organizations, fashion and the performing, culinary and fine arts, with a special focus on aliens of extraordinary ability. She has advised employers on hiring and employment eligibility verification practices, and has assisted them in obtaining work visas and permanent residence (“green cards”) for new and existing employees. She has advised and assisted individuals seeking appropriate work visas, green cards and U.S. citizenship, dependent visas for family members, and changes of status in the U.S. She has helped individual clients to plan visa strategy for career changes, to obtain waivers of ineligibility and waivers of the two-year foreign residence requirement, and to develop strategies for overcoming other hurdles to residence.

She has published articles with the Practising Law Institute and the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), and has spoken at local and national conferences. For the New York chapter of AILA, she has served as an officer of the Continuing Legal Education and District Director Liaison Committees, and as an Editor of the New York Symposium Handbook.