Immigration Paralegal I

About the role

We are a team of brilliant people who change lives through elite immigration work and collaborative innovation. We pursue the exceptional in all that we do, but never at the expense of our values. Our work is demanding, both in volume and pace, but we love the balance of hard work and fun.

Responsibilities

• Takes lead in email/phone client communications.
• Provides guidance to assignees regarding proprietary systems and case processing.
• Inputs client services rendered and sends to Accounting for processing.
• Processes more advanced and varied corporate immigration cases.
• Evaluates cases, relays concerns, and proactively escalates to the appropriate BAL team members(s).
• Prepares forms, letters, documents and correspondence for attorney review; adapts tools and resources for casework which deviates from templates.
• Manages status of all filed applications and petitions and finalizes documents after attorney review.
• Shares process flow with assignees; Identifies problematic cases and discusses strategies and/or solutions with Attorney.
• Performs research to obtain information such as background on a company or industry, current wages, processing procedures, standard processing times, etc.
• Initiates contact with government agencies to obtain necessary information; alerts Senior Paralegal and/or attorney regarding potential process delays/problems.

Qualifications

• Comfortable and able to thrive in an extremely high volume environment.
• Demonstrates sound judgement.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to catch errors and correct work and the work of others.
• Superior client service skills.
• Effectively able to prioritize cases, caseload and other assigned tasks (i.e. projects, company management responsibilities, etc.).
• Ability to meet deadlines and goals.
• MS Office, Scan/Copy; learn, apply and effectively navigate daily use of propriety software.
• Typically at least 1+ year(s) U.S. corporate immigration experience.
• Bachelor’s Degree; 1-year law-related experience under licensed attorney; or, PL certificate from ABA approved program.

Benefits

In addition to competitive pay, a discretionary annual bonus, and a supportive, team-oriented culture, we offer an outstanding benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance, sick time, unlimited vacation, and 401(k) with company match.