Immigration Paralegal Jobs

You will be the key point of contact for U.S. (and to a more limited extent the rest of North America) for answering questions and providing information on the firm’s immigration policies including sponsorship of visas (H-1B, L-1, etc.) and green cards.

Responsibilities include: managing communications with foreign nationals, offices, various stakeholders in PD, HR, recruiting and others as well as with the internal immigration legal team and external counsel; supporting in-house immigration counsel to manage, prepare and respond to a high volume of communications, including the drafting and storage of template “stationary” emails; joining one-on-one calls with in-house counsel and foreign national colleagues to take notes/provide information and follow up with execution of any necessary next steps; drafting broadcast e-mails and urgent “alert” memos on legislative, policy and practice updates with tight turnaround times for review and sign-off by in-house immigration counsel; working independently or with immigration counsel to prepare informational “packs” (using PowerPoint, Word and Excel) on various immigration topics.

You will work with North American HR team (NA-HR) and North American Mobility & Immigration Eligibility Center of Excellence (NA MIE) to review and revise template employment/travel verification letters as necessary and to partner with NA-HR on any complex or unique travel letter requests; draft work and travel support letters, such as TNs and B-1s, for review and sign-off by in-house immigration counsel; draft various applications (e.g., I-983 training plans, H-1B cap registration, etc.); review and sign off on immigration applications, petitions, LCAs and other filings prepared by external legal counsel; coordinate and manage PERM recruitment steps with external counsel and in-house team (including posting of NOF, intranet posting, work with stakeholders to provide guidance on resume reviews process); conduct briefing calls to prepare foreign national colleagues for work visa consular applications and describe various green card processes; work with immigration counsel and various stakeholders to analyze and confirm case strategy.

Your responsibilities will also include managing electronic tools and databases to assist in the efficient functioning of the immigration legal process; providing employment data from internal HR systems to external counsel as part of the case initiation process; preparing monthly and ad hoc reports providing statistical analyses on McKinsey’s Immigration program including status reports from external counsel’s electronic portal to offices, practices and leadership to ensure maintenance of legal status, timely initiation of nonimmigrant extensions and green card applications and analyses to identify a variety of other immigration related data.

Other responsibilities as assigned including, but not limited to: conducting basic immigration legal research and prepare summaries of same using both on-line and hard copy resources; providing I-9 assistance to offices, including answering questions on how to complete I-9 requirements from a legal aspect.