Lawyers Juggle Client Expectations in New Immigration Landscape

The Trump administration’s scrutiny of employment-based visas isn’t just making immigration attorneys find new ways to respond to the government; it’s also requiring new approaches to managing client expectations.

“We’re doing a lot more work now making sure our agreements are reflecting the additional work” required to represent a business seeking employment visas for its workers, said Anastasia Tonello, the immediate past president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

That work ranges from including additional client fees to explaining agency processing delays to taking a case to federal court when the government issues a denial, an increasingly common occurrence especially ...