Senior Associate
Clifford Chin
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- English
Contact information
Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP
555 Montgomery St, 4th Floor
San Francisco CA 94111
United States
Clifford is a Senior Associate at Fragomen’s San Francisco office, where he helps clients manage their most complex immigration matters. He focuses his practice on counseling small and large multinational corporations on immigration issues arising from corporate reorganizations, mergers and layoffs; managing PERM recruitment programs; developing strategies for immigrant visas petitions under the extraordinary ability, outstanding researcher, multinational manager and executive, and national interest waiver categories; developing immigration policies and procedures; and partnering with clients in the sports and entertainment sectors to meet their immigration needs.
Clifford has experience counseling clients on all aspects of business immigration, including labor certifications, PERM applications, consular processing, adjustment of status applications, reentry permits and naturalization applications. He also has experience assisting clients with nonimmigrant visa matters, including petitions for H-1B, TN, L, E, O, P and R visas.
Clifford had provided pro bono services through the Asian Women’s Shelter and Artistic Freedom Initiative.
Education
- Duquesne University School of Law, J.D., 1995
- Brown University, B.A., 1992
More from Clifford
Admissions
Bar Admissions: Illinois
Court Admissions: Illinois Supreme Court
Practice Limited to Federal Immigration & Nationality Law
Professional accomplishments
Member, American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)
Experience
Lead attorney and author on the brief for a seminal En Banc BALCA decision governing the content requirement of advertisements in the PERM context.
Publications and lectures
Co-author, “Immigration Compliance Management.” ABA Journal, 2017.
Speaker, “Elimination of Bias, Understanding your Client (With Focus on Racial Bias)” AILA Northern California Chapter Half-Day CLE Mini-Conference, 14 January 2022.
Clifford’s insights
March 28, 2023 | Media mentions
