Julie is a highly skilled attorney who consistently demonstrated dedication, ensuring all our questions were answered. She deeply cares about her clients, and is a very pleasant person to speak with. I recommend Julie for any legal work requiring expertise and deep commitment.
Chicago-based boutique law firm
Your Trusted Partner in Immigration Law
With over 70 years of combined experience, our dedicated team works closely with clients to simplify the complex immigration process. We offer strategic counsel and proactive solutions to ensure businesses meet their workforce needs while complying with government regulations.
J. Aponte & Associates is an employment-based immigration law practice based outside of Chicago. Our firm assists companies located across the U.S. by providing workforce immigration solutions. By working with us, employers are able to secure temporary and permanent immigration benefits for foreign national professional employees working in the U.S.
At J. Aponte & Associates, we take a proactive approach from day one to ensure timelines are met. With careful planning, we keep your visa application on track for a smooth and timely resolution.
We provide immigration strategies and solutions to ensure smooth process flow with all government agencies involved. We provide companies and their employees with long-term planning options to prevent any gaps in employment authorization and to enable companies to meet their key project goals.
Since 2005, we’ve been an option for multinational and local companies of all sizes that are seeking assistance with navigating through the complexities of employment-based immigration law.
APPROACH
J. Aponte & Associates believes
that the best experience and outcomes are achieved when attorneys and clients maintain open lines of communication and work collaboratively together. We realize that immigration processes can seem obtuse, so our approach is to provide as much visibility into the process as possible. We believe in sharing information, knowledge and tools clients can use to manage internal immigration activities. We also believe in teaching our clients about the process so that they can accomplish many immigration activities themselves.
As part of our standard approach to our work, we offer the following client services:
- Prepare customized status reports
- Monitor status expiration dates, priority dates, age out dates, etc.
- Proactively work with clients to meet government deadlines
- Provide guidance in maintaining public access files and records
- Effectively develop legal strategy of new hire matters with a view to permanent residence
- Conduct audits of completed Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification, and make recommendations on improving corporate processes
- Provide training and workshops on accurately completing Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification
- Offer client-specific immigration law training
- Develop corporate immigration law policies and processes
What we do is specialized, so we are able to offer our clients the highest level of
service in the area of employment-based immigration legal services.
Technology
J. Aponte & Associates has embraced modern information technology
Because of the enhanced communication and collaboration channels it enables. We seek to be as efficient and effective in the delivery of our services, and we’ve found that the use of online case management tools has been welcomed by our clients.
Our online services include:
- A secure website portal to track case status for employers and employees
- Report generation for management team
- Online questionnaires
- Online review of completed government forms
We are always on the lookout to add technical capabilities that will improve our ability to deliver exceptional service to our clients.
Decades of Experience
Our Skilled Team in Immigration
We have successfully represented businesses across the U.S., providing strategic legal counsel and immigration solutions.
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