Barbara Stone Porthole

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Barbara L. Stone

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Barbara is a Senior Associate at Fragomen’s Los Angeles office, where she focuses her practice on mid to small size corporate clients and investors in a wide variety of different industries. She helps guide clients through H-1B, L-1A and L-1B, O-1, TN, and similar nonimmigrant visa petitions in addition to EB-1, EB-2, and EB-3 immigrant petitions. Barbara also works with individual investor clients EB-5 petitions, both through Regional Center and direct investment projects.

Barbara started her career working at an immigration law firm in the metro Detroit, Michigan, area and focused on physician immigration. She later joined a boutique firm in the metro Phoenix, Arizona, area where she managed a heavy caseload of physician and other business immigration matters in addition to investor and family petitions and I-9 compliance. After relocating to Southern California, Barbara worked at a mid-size firm before joining Fragomen. While in law school, Barbara participated in her university’s Domestic Violence Clinic, where she assisted survivors with VAWA, U visas and asylum applications.

Education

  • American University, Washington College of Law, J.D., 2014
  • The Ohio State University, B.A., 2010

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  • Michigan, 2014

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Bar Admissions: Michigan

Practice Limited to Federal Immigration & Nationality Law

Professional accomplishments

Member, American Immigration Lawyers Association

Former Member, International Medical Graduates Taskforce

Former Member, Ladder Down Phoenix

Former Member, National Association of Foreign Student Advisers: Association of International Educators

Experience

Partnered with multinational corporations to obtain L-1 visas, blanket Ls, cap subject H-1Bs, E-2s, PERM-based green cards and EB-1C multinational managers.

Collaborated with investors and Regional Centers on EB-5 petitions, E-2 investor petitions, and L-1A New Office petitions.

Worked with various schools and universities to obtain EB-1A Extraordinary Ability, EB-1B Outstanding Researchers, National Interest Waivers and cap-exempt H-1Bs.

Assisted physicians, medical centers and hospitals with obtaining J-1 Waivers (Conrad-30, HHS, Hardship and Persecution), H-1B Cap Exempt, third party placement, Physician National Interest Waivers, O-1s, PERM-based and extraordinary ability-based I-140s and related physician and licensing issues.

Helped clients with AAO appeals and RFE responses.

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