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Professional Profile
Houman Afshar advises start-up and established U.S. businesses of various sizes on how to implement and maintain immigration programs in a wide range of industries, including hospitality, media, marketing, fine arts, technology, financial services, and others. He is skilled in counselling clients on various nonimmigrant and immigrant visa matters, creating worksite compliance programs and implementing strategic, cost-effective immigration programs that facilitate the efficient transfer of foreign employees to U.S. operations. He also represents individual clients on various immigration matters, such as sponsorship based on familial relationships as well as nationality issues, including the acquisition and retention of U.S. citizenship.
Memberships and Affiliations
American Immigration Lawyers Association
Canadian Association of New York
Articles, Publications and Lectures
Note, "The Caspian Dispute: Is a Doctrinal Analysis Too Late or Can We Turn Back the Hands of Time?", New York Law School Review, 2004
Awards and Recognition
Mr. Afshar served as an executive editor of Law Review while at New York Law School. He has been published in the New York Law School Law Review and received the Ernst C. Stiefel writing award for excellence in Comparative, Common, and Civil Law.
Education
J.D., cum laude, New York Law School,
B.A., Psychology and Sociology, University of British Columbia
Bar Admissions
New York
Court Admissions
New York, Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department
Languages
Farsi