Best O-1 Visa Lawyers and Services

O-1 visas have become one of the most common visas for founders, executives, and employees trying to start new jobs. The increasing interest in going for O-1 visas has resulted in a lot of new lawyers and tech enabled law firms. Some law firms are using Artificial Intelligence to reduce the cost of filing visas.

Below is a list of law firms that file O-1 visas for founders, executives, and employees:

Compass Visas

Compass Visas offers various services for employees and executives including free instant eligibility check for visa options, detailed guidance on qualifying for U.S. work visas or green cards, and assistance for various types of applicants (founders, technologists, researchers, families, students).

Compass provides assistance with the following types of visas and green card options:

• O-1 Visa (for highly skilled individuals)
• EB-1 Green Card (for top performers in their field)
• EB-2 NIW Green Card (for those in vital U.S. industries)
• H-1B Visa (for college/university graduates)
• TN Visa (for Canadian and Mexican STEM professionals)
• Other options (visitor visas, L-1 visas, EB-2 green cards, E-1 and E-2 investor visas)

Compass also provides instant case evaluations, application management tools, document storage, and comprehensive immigration journey support (from initial visas to citizenship).

Plymouth Street

Plymouth Street is focused on providing immigration assistance to technologists and builders. They provide personalized immigration journey guidance, case management, documentation support, and a network of lawyers and case managers for their clients.

In addition to offering assistance with visa types like O-1, EB-1, and EB-2, Plymouth street provides free consultation, narrative mapping, criteria mapping, network analysis, and case status tracking with a transparent process.

Passright

Passright helps founders and executives with visa services to help them take control of their immigration future. Passright has been around for many years and has helped hundreds of immigrants with visas and citizenship. Passright offers visa services for extraordinary ability professionals, business travelers, and green card seekers.

Here’s a list of visas supported by Passright:

• O-1 Visa (for startup founders, engineers, scientists, and artists)
• EB-1A Green Card (for experts with exceptional professional standing)
• EB-2 NIW Green Card (for individuals working in areas of national interest)
• B-1/B-2 Visa (for business-related travel)

As a part of helping with visas, Passright offers additional services like recommendation letters, free case reviews, free eligibility evaluation, personalized immigration journey guidance, and an expert team of attorneys and case managers with a white glove boutique approach.

Lima

Lighthouse HQ

Lighthouse HQ

Bay Immigration Law

Bay Immigration Law

Roberts Immigration

Roberts Immigration

Legalpad

Legalpad (acquired by Deel) offers visa sponsorship for Employer of Record (EOR) employees in over 25 countries. The scope and breadth of services for Legalpad significantly increased post-acquisition by Deel. Legalpad offers visa and immigration support for a number of categories in addition to offering visa sponsorship for EOR (Employer of Record) employees in 25+ countries.

Legalpad offers support for a couple of broad categories:

a. Temporary Work Visas:

• O-1 (for exceptional individuals)
• H-1B (for specialty occupations)
• L-1 (intra-company transfers)
• TN (for Canadian and Mexican citizens)
• E1/E2 (for investors and entrepreneurs)
• B-1 (for business visitors)
• UAE work visa
• E-3 (for Australian citizens)

b. Permanent Residency (Green Cards):

• EB-1A (for individuals with extraordinary ability)
• EB-2 (for professionals with advanced degrees)
• EB-2 NIW (National Interest Waiver)
• EB-1C (for multinational executives and managers)

Overall, Legalpad offers robust services to help companies with filing non-immigrant and immigrant visas.

Opensphere

Opensphere is a new company that has taken an AI and community approach to help with various visa categories. Most other companies either have partner law firms or in-house lawyers for filing visas. Opensphere is a marketplace where applicants create profiles and upload their documents.

Opensphere provides AI-powered visa application assistance, community support for immigrants, and connections to top immigration lawyers.

Opensphere is not a direct service provider, it’s a marketplace between applicants and lawyers.

They provide the following services:

Key Features:

• Get free AI insights (by submitting a resume)
• Join the community of immigrants
• Collaborate with immigration attorneys
• File application with attorney assistance

If you are looking to use AI to build your application and talk to multiple lawyers through a platform, Opensphere might be the right choice for you.

The law firms below charge anywhere from $5k-$15k for filing visas.

Gordon Law Group

Higgs Fletcher & Mack, LLP

Bhatt Law, PLLC

Corporate Immigration Partners PC

Alcorn Law

Minami Tamaki LLP

Law Offices of Sweta Khandelwal

Goldman and Partners Immigration Law

The Wright Law Firm

Ogletree Deakins

Jewell Stewart and Pratt

Law Offices of Robert P. Gaffney

Dyan Williams Law

Becker & Lee LLP

Camimsa Markel

Finnan, Fleischut and Associates

Corstange Law Group

Crimson Talent Immigration

Wolfsdorf Rosenthal LLP

Rohit Mittal

Rohit Mittal is the co-founder and CEO of Stilt. Rohit has extensive experience in credit risk analytics and data science. He spent years building credit risk and fraud models for top U.S. banks. In his current role, he defines the overall business strategy, leads debt and capital fundraising efforts, leads product development, and leads other customer-related aspects for the company. Stilt is backed by Y Combinator and has raised a total of $275M in debt and equity funding to date.

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