People: Angelo A. Paparelli, Partner

Angelo A. Paparelli

Partner

New York
Direct: (212) 218-5500
Fax: (212) 218-5526
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Mr. Paparelli is a partner in the Business Immigration Practice Group of Seyfarth Shaw LLP. A Certified Immigration Law Specialist (CA), he is known among clients and peers for providing creative solutions to complex immigration law problems, especially those involving mergers and acquisitions. He also serves as an expert witness and consultant on immigration issues arising in litigation.

Mr. Paparelli’s immigration practice areas include compliance audits; counsel and due diligence in mergers, acquisitions and corporate restructuring; immigration-related corporation policy formulation; permanent residence and citizenship; visas for executives, managers, scientists, scholars, investigators, professionals, students and visitors; PERM labor certifications; employment-based immigrant visa petitions; global visas and consular practice; family-based immigration; legislative advocacy and immigration messaging; federal court litigation under the Administrative Procedures Act; waivers, white-collar immigration, asylum and removal defense.

Mr. Paparelli writes a blog, Nation of Immigrators, on America's dysfunctional immigration system. To access the blog, click here.

For a summary page of Mr. Paparelli's published articles click here

 

Mr. Paparelli is a partner in the Business Immigration Practice Group of Seyfarth Shaw LLP. A Certified Immigration Law Specialist (CA), he is known among clients and peers for providing creative solutions to complex immigration law problems, especially those involving mergers and acquisitions. He also serves as an expert witness and consultant on immigration issues arising in litigation.

Mr. Paparelli’s immigration practice areas include compliance audits; counsel and due diligence in mergers, acquisitions and corporate restructuring; immigration-related corporation policy formulation; permanent residence and citizenship; visas for executives, managers, scientists, scholars, investigators, professionals, students and visitors; PERM labor certifications; employment-based immigrant visa petitions; global visas and consular practice; family-based immigration; legislative advocacy and immigration messaging; federal court litigation under the Administrative Procedures Act; waivers, white-collar immigration, asylum and removal defense.

Mr. Paparelli writes a blog, Nation of Immigrators, on America's dysfunctional immigration system. To access the blog, click here.

For a summary page of Mr. Paparelli's published articles click here

 

Education

  • B.A., University of Michigan (1971)

Admissions

  • California

Courts

  • California
  • Michigan
  • New York

Publications

For articles published while at a previous firm, please click here

Affiliations

  • Alliance of Business Immigration Lawyer (Founder/Past President)
  • American Bar Association
  • American Immigration Lawyers Association
  • State Bar of California
  • State Bar of Michigan
  • State Bar of New York
  • Orange County Bar Association
  • National Speakers Association
  • American Immigration Law Foundation (Emeritus Member, Board of Trustees)
  • Children First (Member, Advisory Board)

Accolades

  • N.Y. Times editorial (“Requiem for a Dream”) linked to Angelo’s blog to show Pres. Obama’s executive authority to implement changes in immigration policy without action by Congress.
  • The 2010 recipient of Edith Lowenstein Award conferred by the 10,000-member American Immigration Lawyers Association, for advancing the practice of immigration law.
  • Given Chambers highest rating (above Band 1), a “Star” business immigration lawyer (2011 Chambers USA’s highest rating), and Band 1 (2011 Legal500).
  • Named 3 times as the world’s leading corporate immigration lawyer (2009, 2006 & 2005, International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers)
  • Prolific Writer:  Co-author of the New York Law Journal’s “Immigration” column, a blogger (www.nationofimmigrators.com), co-editor of The Immigration Compliance Book (ILW, 2009)
  • Founder and immediate past president of the Alliance of Business Immigration Lawyers – www.abil.com, a 38-member worldwide alliance of leading immigration firms, and Founder Orange County Managing Partners Roundtable (30 managing partners participate monthly for breakfast).
  • Social Media Evangelist:  Twitter, Blog, Linked-In & Facebook

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