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The list of industries served by Partner Kristi Taylor is broad—it includes clients from the telecommunications, engineering, technology, architectural, engineering and transportation sectors, and, most recently, the biotechnology industry.

Despite the impressive range of her experience, each of her clients enjoys individualized attention that addresses their particular immigration challenges.

Kristi helps companies reimagine their immigration policies and programs—or develop them from the ground up if they’re ready to document their policies and processes. They value Kristi for her keen ear—she listens deeply and attentively to understand their immediate immigration challenges, but also to familiarize herself with their risk tolerance, their internal corporate culture and their preferred communications style.

This initial analysis allows her to fit into place new program and policy elements that address her clients’ strategic business objectives, including talent recruitment, employee retention, internal workforce development and due diligence for transactions and partnerships. She believes that even slight adjustments to immigration programs can make a difference in a fiercely competitive global marketplace.

Throughout her 23-year career, Kristi has developed particular experience defending employer sanctions cases, particularly in the I-9 space, for major corporate clients. She’s helped Fortune 500 companies successfully manage actions launched by the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency and the Immigrant and Employee Rights Section of the Department of Justice. She also helps clients prepare pristine I-9 compliance programs and exploratory audits that mitigate the effect of investigations or avoid negative regulatory attention altogether.

Kristi is inspired not only by helping her clients achieve their goals, but also by the positive impact her work has on the lives of their individual employees. As a young immigration lawyer, she spent countless hours face-to-face with individual clients; the care and empathy she relied on then remains the animating force in her work today.

She maintains active pro bono and public service commitments, including previous work representing special immigrant juvenile status applicants and DACA applicants. She is especially proud to support Attorneys Serving the Community, a service organization that assists nonprofits throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

This initial analysis allows her to fit into place new program and policy elements that address her clients’ strategic business objectives, including talent recruitment, employee retention, internal workforce development and due diligence for transactions and partnerships. She believes that even slight adjustments to immigration programs can make a difference in a fiercely competitive global marketplace.

Throughout her 23-year career, Kristi has developed particular experience defending employer sanctions cases, particularly in the I-9 space, for major corporate clients. She’s helped Fortune 500 companies successfully manage actions launched by the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency and the Immigrant and Employee Rights Section of the Department of Justice. She also helps clients prepare pristine I-9 compliance programs and exploratory audits that mitigate the effect of investigations or avoid negative regulatory attention altogether.

Kristi is inspired not only by helping her clients achieve their goals, but also by the positive impact her work has on the lives of their individual employees. As a young immigration lawyer, she spent countless hours face-to-face with individual clients; the care and empathy she relied on then remains the animating force in her work today.

She maintains active pro bono and public service commitments, including previous work representing special immigrant juvenile status applicants and DACA applicants. She is especially proud to support Attorneys Serving the Community, a service organization that assists nonprofits throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

Education

  • University of Arkansas, J.D., 1996
  • Howard Payne University, B.Sc., high honors , 1994

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Admissions

Bar Admissions: Texas

Practice Limited to Federal Immigration & Nationality Law

Awards

Listed in Best Lawyers in America (Woodward/White, Inc.), 2020 to 2026

Listed in Chambers USA (Chambers and Partners), 2017 to 2025

Listed in Who's Who Legal: Corporate Immigration (Law Business Research Ltd.), 2016 to 2018, 2020 to 2024

Elected to Fellows of the Texas Bar Foundation (The Texas Bar Foundation), 2020

Professional accomplishments

Member, American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)

Member, National Association of Women Lawyers

Member, Dallas Bar Association

Experience

Assisted a large corporation with a nationwide internal I-9 audit, developed I-9 best practices, conducted training for their management staff, advised on enrollment in E-Verify, and assisted with the development of an electronic I-9 program

Assisted an engineering corporation with the development of a centralized internal immigration program for their nonimmigrant and immigrant needs, and developed immigration procedures and policies to support this endeavor. Provided immigration training to their human resource professionals and developed a deemed export process.

Managed the nonimmigrant, immigrant and global needs of a large Fortune 100 corporation. Provided advice on immigration strategy, cost efficiencies and impact of acquisitions and mergers to the foreign national employee population.

Publications and lectures

Speaker, “Immigration Breakfast Briefing.” Fragomen, Dallas, TX, 13 November 2025.

Speaker, “Expert Insight: Navigating U.S. Immigration Uncertainties: Strategies for the Global Workforce.” 2025 Forum for Expatriate Management Americas Summit, Dallas, TX, 14 May 2025.

Speaker, “Navigating Employment Laws for Growing Companies.” BioNTX 2025 HR Forum, Dallas, TX, 27 March 2025.

Speaker, “Navigating the Job Market as an International Student.” BioNTX 2025 HR Forum, Dallas, TX, 27 March 2025.

Speaker, “Business Immigration and Compliance: Key Updates and What Lies Ahead.” Fragomen, Webinar, 25 February 2025.

Speaker, “Steps to Protect and Defend Your Company from an Office of Special Counsel Investigation.” Lecture, Texas Lawyer's In-House Counsel Summit, Dallas, TX, November 2015.

Speaker, “The New Two-Page I-9: A Deep Dive for HR & Legal Professionals.” Lecture, Rock Center for Corporate Governance 3rd Annual Worksite Immigration Compliance Symposium, Palo Alto, CA, April 2013.

Speaker, “Dealing with USCIS on Difficult I-140 Issues.” Lecture, American Immigration Lawyers Association Texas and Midsouth Chapter Conference, New Orleans, LA, November 2012.

Speaker, “Hot Topics in Employment Based Cases.” Lecture, American Immigration Lawyers Association Texas Chapter Spring Conference, Albuquerque, NM, April 2012.

Speaker, “Gettin’ a Handle on I-140s: Current Trends in Adjudications.” Lecture, American Immigration Lawyers Association Texas Chapter Spring Conference, Oklahoma City, OK, April 2011.

Speaker, “Term Limits: Counseling the Terminated Employee.” Lecture, American Immigration Lawyers Association 2010 Annual Conference, National Harbor, MD, June 2010.

Speaker, “Emerging Worksite Compliance Issues.” Lecture, Lorman Education Services’ Immigration Law and Employer Compliance: A New Era for Employer Liability, Fort Worth, TX, March 2009. 

Speaker, “Current Department of Labor Issues.” Lecture, American Immigration Lawyers Association Texas Chapter 2009 Spring Conference, Ft. Worth, TX, April 2009.

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