Immigration Enforcement Defense Services
Defend your business.
Are the regulators knocking at your door?
In the current political climate, government immigration investigations and enforcement actions are on the rise, and violations have serious consequences, ranging from monetary penalties to criminal liability and debarment from immigration programs.
While proactive immigration compliance helps to prevent these issues, the immigration environment is complex and difficult problems do occur.
And when they do, you need a deeply experienced legal partner on your side to defend your company. Fragomen’s deep bench of experienced litigators and former government officials know the ins and outs of how enforcement procedures work—and how to best help you in any government enforcement situation.
Our enforcement defense team is a cross-disciplined, highly integrated group of immigration professionals with a broad range of prior experience, including investigators, congressional staff, agency executives, and high-stakes, white-collar litigators. Unlike some other firms where such teams operate in silos, our team works together to look around corners and identify other areas of risk using our diverse backgrounds and experience.
Here's how:
Experience where it counts.
For decades, Fragomen’s Government Strategies and Compliance team has been defending companies against enforcement actions and representing them in investigations and audits.
Our team includes:
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- A former general counsel to the legacy Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)
- The former counsel to the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Affairs
- The former special counsel to the now Immigrant and Employee Rights Section of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division
- White collar criminal immigration defense counsel
- Investigative analysts
- Experienced immigration and litigation paralegals
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Confronting a wide range of challenges.
We can provide counsel and representation for various types of enforcement and compliance challenges. In the U.S., this includes:
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- Labor Department H-1B investigations, PERM audits or investigations, and other immigration labor enforcement
- Homeland Security investigations and subpoenas
- Grand jury and administrative immigration subpoena responses
- Internal investigations when compliance or ethical lapses are identified
- Investigations of vendors for violations of contracts and agreements related to U.S. law
- Fraud or other misrepresentation accusations by government agencies
- Compliance violations in PERM, H-1B and other regulatory schemes
- Form I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification audits and investigations
- Anti-citizenship discrimination and over-documentation enforcement actions by the U.S. Justice Department
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Defense representation and internal investigations.
When a compliance or ethical lapse occurs, we can conduct internal investigations to determine what happened. We make recommendations regarding mandatory and voluntary disclosures to regulators, as well as process and compliance program improvements.
Our team is deeply experienced representing companies in responding to subpoenas—whether the company is a target of the investigation or merely holds relevant records. We represent companies before government agencies and courts when facing enforcement proceedings.
We can conduct high-level meetings with agencies to address even the most complex of compliance issues.
