Duties:
In collaboration with attorneys, provide account management services to assigned clients, including the following duties:
- Utilize our Voyager platform to create and maintain client and foreign national profiles and processes, monitor case workflows, ensure proper onboarding and managing a case from initiation to filing.
- Drafting assigned applications for clients, including all forms and letters, and preparing assembled application for attorney review prior to government submission.
- Complete PERM processes from initiation to final submission, as assigned. Initiating/preparing I-140 and/or AOS following PERM.
- Where applicable, assign appropriate cases and tasks to junior paralegals for completion (process initiations, form preparation, final assembly, and relevant communications).
- As assigned by attorney and/or team lead, assist with application preparation for other clients where specific individual knowledge or expertise can benefit.
- Manage and/or support others in larger client accounts, as required.
- Manage assigned client accounts with general oversight from attorney(s), pushing processes forward based on own initiative, and completing assignments within firm expectation.
- Review drafted applications as prepared by junior-level paralegals and provide feedback, as needed.
- Monitor emails and chat messages, responding to internal requests from senior legal team and/or responding to external stakeholders as required. Meltzer Hellrung guarantees a one business day response time to client communication.
- Support assigned clients in data reporting as needed, such as expiration reports, initiation projections, status reports, etc.
- Responsible for reviewing updates published by the firm and other legal team members to stay abreast of changes in immigration.
About you:
- At least 3 years of employment-based immigration experience in a paralegal role or similar capacity.
- Experience with visa preparation on H-1B, PERM, dependent-related visa types, TN, E-3, H-1B1, I-140, Adjustment of Status, RFE responses, L-1, and other case types.
- Experience with other business immigration applications, such as E-2, O-1, NIW, and EB-1A is desired, but not required.
- Experience managing personal day-to-day tasks for assigned client accounts, including moving cases forward based on their own initiative, and preparing reports.
- Experience in directing junior-level paralegals to complete assigned processes a plus.
