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Christian Dallman
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- English
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Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP
755 W Big Beaver Rd Suite 750
Troy MI 48084
United States
Christian is the Managing Partner of Fragomen’s Detroit, Michigan office. In addition to overseeing the operations of the firm’s presence in the Motor City, he chairs our firm’s Automotive Industry Practice Group, which is comprised of attorneys and immigration professionals throughout the world with automotive clients. Christian is central to developing Fragomen’s top-down strategic approach to the automotive industry.
Christian and his team possess a deep familiarity with the challenges facing the automobile sector and a deft touch for devising creative responses to them. Together, they structure comprehensive immigration programs, track and gather industry intelligence and work closely with consulates and other authorities to achieve results for their clients. His work includes:
- Partnering with automakers as they respond to the advent of electric and autonomous vehicle technology. These new technologies demand a creative and flexible use of foreign talent and knowledge by the auto industry; Christian spearheaded innovative responses, including the use of national interest waivers to facilitate successful green card applications.
- From a U.S. immigration perspective, helping automotive industry clients devise effective compliance plans to respond to and be prepared for unionization efforts and labor actions, including the 2023 strike against the big three automakers. In addition to representing his own automaker and supplier clients, Christian coordinates the efforts of Fragomen attorneys and teams who represent the sector across jurisdictions, helping them gather, share and develop immigration data related to labor actions.
- Co-founding the Fragomen Global Automotive Industry Practice Group, Christian helped build and lead this worldwide team, which facilitates conversations between automotive sector clients worldwide. Together, they develop new data-sharing initiatives, benchmarking efforts and program elements to solve the disparate immigration challenges of automotive manufacturers and suppliers.
Education
- Tulane University School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude , 2006
- Murphy Institute of Political Economy at Tulane University, B.A., cum laude , 2003
More from Christian
Admissions
Bar Admissions: Illinois, Michigan
Practice Limited to Federal Immigration & Nationality Law
Awards
Listed in Chambers USA, 2022 to 2024; Ranked in Band 1
Super Lawyers “Rising Star,” 2013 to 2020
Recipient, Pro Bono Attorney of the Year Award, World Relief DuPage/Aurora - Immigrant Legal Services Program, 2017
Recipient, Global Awards: Immigration Law Within the IT Sector, Corporate LiveWire, 2016
Order of the Coif at Tulane Law School, 2006
Phi Beta Kappa Honors Fraternity, 2003
Professional accomplishments
Member, Board of Directors, French-American Chamber of Commerce – Michigan
Resource Partner, Detroit Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)
Member, American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)
Committee Member, AILA Michigan Chapter – Practice Management Committee
Member, Council for Global Immigration
Member, Michigan Relocation Council (MiRC)
Past Member and Contributor, Illinois Technology Association (ITA)
Past Committee Member, AILA Chicago Chapter Ethics and CLE Committees
Experience
Advised Corporate Board of Directors regarding immigration challenges associated with hiring and retaining a global workforce.
Developed comprehensive immigration policies in conjunction with client management teams, addressing H-1B visa scarcity, narrowing USCIS interpretations of nonimmigrant visa regulations, and employment-based immigrant visa unavailability and associated quota backlogs.
Formulated Request for Evidence (RFE) response protocols.
Directed nonimmigrant visa program processes for high-volume IT consulting firms.
Counseled employees who apply for visas at the U.S. Consulates in India.
Advised clients regarding the immigration implications of global corporate restructuring.
Oversaw extraordinary ability and outstanding researcher petitions, inadmissibility waiver applications, complex L-1B and L-1A petitions, sophisticated RFE responses and PERM audit responses.
Publications and lectures
Speaker, “Navigating Automotive Industry Headwinds: Impacts on Global Immigration Strategies.” Fragomen, Webinar, 4 February 2025.
Speaker, “Employment Law Compliance and Labor Considerations.” Worldwide ERC Global Workforce Symposium (GWS) 2024, National Harbor, Maryland, 25 October 2024.
Speaker, “The AI Talent Shortage in Automotive Plants.” ASSEMBLY Audible, Podcast, 18 September 2024.
Speaker, “Navigating Global Workforce Horizons: Strategies for Agile Success.” Global Mobility Executive Leaders Exchange VX | USA Central, 12 September 2023.
Co-author, “M&A Activities and Posting of Workers.” Arbeit und Arbeitsrecht, 7 June 2023.
Interviewed, “Get to Know Christian Dallman.” Detroit Legal News, 13 April 2022.
Roundtable Leader, “Immigration Challengers Associated with Hiring and Retaining a Global Workforce.” SHRM Annual Conference & Exposition, Chicago, IL, 2018.
Webinar Host, “The Current U.S. Administration & Business Immigration Policy Today.” Illinois Technology Association (ITA), 2018.
Co-author, “U.S. Business Immigration Policy in the Trump Administration.” German American Chambers of Commerce: GACC Midwest Expert White Papers, November 2017.
Panelist, “Winning the Battle for Global Talent.” Global Business News: Mobility Leadership Aligns with the Business, Not Talent, Chicago, IL, 2017.
Panelist, “The Business of Doing Business Immigration, Let's Focus on Students: New Regulations and Government Investigations.” AILA Chicago Chapter Seminars, Chicago, IL, 2016.
Panelist, “VENI, VIDI, VISA! (I went to the Embassy, I saw the Consular Officer and I got my Visa!)” 2012 American Council on International Personnel (ACIP) Annual Symposium, Washington, DC, 2012.
Christian’s insights
June 6, 2025 | Fragomen news
May 1, 2025 | Blog post
January 30, 2025 | Blog post
