Our Immigration Practice - Law Firm Meyner and Landis LLP Attorneys Newark, New Jersey

OUR IMMIGRATION PRACTICE

The firm's Immigration and Naturalization Law Group consists of two attorneys who are partners of the firm and an experienced, highly motivated, professional team of paralegals. Its attorneys, Anthony Siliato and Jerard Gonzalez, are both very experienced within their field of specialization and enjoy an extremely positive and well-earned reputation. They are well-known for handling complex business and litigation-related matters.

Immigration Attorney Anthony F. Siliato has been practicing law for 25 years after graduating from Seton Hall University Law School. Mr. Siliato is the partner within the firm chiefly responsible for business and corporate-related immigration matters with over twenty (20) years experience in the field. Mr. Siliato is past Chair of the New Jersey Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association ("AILA"). He remains an active member of AILA, serving as a mentor in employment-related immigration matters. At the request of the New Jersey Institute For Continuing Legal Education ("ICLE"), among other articles, Mr. Siliato authored chapters on H and L non-immigrant visa classifications which were included in ICLE's Immigration Primer Handbook entitled Immigration and The Employer. He has lectured extensively on business immigration issues at continuing education seminars, technology/business exhibitions and before corporate organizations. He has been quoted in business magazines, consulted by local newspapers and radio programs, and appeared on local and cable television programs relating to immigration-related legislation and other topical immigration issues.

Mr. Siliato handles matters dealing with the following issues:

Immigration and Naturalization
Business and Corporate
Employment-Based (E-1, E-2, H, L, TN, O, P visas)
Consular Processing
Labor Certifications
Extraordinary Ability / National Interest Waivers / Outstanding Researchers
Adjustment of Status
Employer Sanctions
Family / Fiancé
General
Investor
Medical
Naturalization

Jerard A. Gonzalez is the partner chiefly responsible for the firm's immigration practice before the Immigration and Federal Courts. Mr. Gonzalez was recently elected Vice Chairman of the New Jersey Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association ("AILA"). He is a former Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor. He is also a former Assistant District Counsel with the United States Department of Justice, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Newark, NJ. As an Assistant District Counsel, Mr. Gonzalez handled asylum cases, criminal alien cases and complex cases of national security before the Executive Office For Immigration Review. In addition to his corporate immigration practice, Mr. Gonzalez' immigration practice includes providing defense in removal proceedings before the Executive Office for Immigration Review, the Board of Immigration Appeals and Federal Court, as well as providing advice on the immigration consequences of criminal pleas. In addition to handling his own criminal cases, Mr. Gonzalez has successfully worked with other defense counsel in negotiating pleas in criminal court that would permit the respective foreign national client to legally remain in the United States. Mr. Gonzalez has also successfully vacated convictions for foreign nationals who were not properly apprized of the immigration consequences of their guilty pleas. Mr. Gonzalez has lectured on the immigration consequences of criminal activities on behalf of the Federal Bar Association, the Institute for Continuing Legal Education ("ICLE") and the Bergen County Bar Association. Specifically, Mr. Gonzalez handles the following issues:

Federal Court Litigation (Habeas Corpus and Petitions for Review)
Criminal Defense (State and Federal)
Deportation/Removal
Employment Based (E-1, E-2, H, L, TN, O, P visas)
Labor Certifications
Extraordinary Ability / National Interest Waivers / Outstanding Researchers
Adjustment of Status
Family / Fiancé / Battered Spouse
Political Asylum
General
Medical
Naturalization

The immigration attorneys at Meyner and Landis LLP-Anthony F. Siliato and Jerard A. Gonzalez -are prepared to handle the most complex immigration case or concern, including criminal defense for people facing charges in criminal immigration proceedings and immigration deportation law, including removal proceedings.

See a representative sample of our Recent Successes.

We provide fixed fees for most applications or petitions. Our fees on complex immigration matters are generally based on our usual time charges for attorneys and paralegals involved.

For a free evaluation and estimate of your case, please complete our Immigration Intake Form.

With offices in Newark and Hackensack, New Jersey, Meyner and Landis LLP provides immigration services for businesses and individuals throughout the state of New Jersey. The firm's immigration practice, however, is national in scope, encompassing the representation of multi-national Fortune 500 employers, businesses and individuals throughout the United States.