Zarina H. Syed

Zarina assists corporate and individual clients in obtaining employment and family-based visas across industries including financial services, media, digital publishing, manufacturing, energy consultancies and e-commerce. She assists with B, E, H, L, O and TN non-immigrant visa matters, as well as PERM labor certification, I-130, I-140 and I-485 applications.

Working with global companies in multiple industries, Zarina facilitates high-volume intra-company transfers to the U.S. that are critical to business operations, including senior executives, engineers, financial specialists and other skilled professionals.

• New York Law School, J.D.
• Syracuse University, B.A., magna cum laude, International Relations and Political Science

• New York

• New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division

• Assists a global financial institution with the transfer of front office financial advisers and back office IT professionals as part of their employment-based nonimmigrant and immigrant visa program
• Manages employment-based nonimmigrant and immigrant visa program for national e-commerce business including facilitating H-1B and PERM, I-140 and I-485 matters for senior executives and professionals that are central to its business operations
• Manages the employment-based immigrant visa program for an international insurance company including PERM, I-140 and I-485 matters
• Assists with corporate E-Treaty registration for the transfer of executives and specialists to assist with the expansion of an international retailer

• New York Super Lawyers Rising Star 2016-2019
• Joseph Solomon Public Interest Award 2008
• New York Law School Justice Action Center Affiliate

• American Immigration Lawyers Association
• Muslim Bar Association of New York
• New York State Bar Association, Special Committee on Immigration Representation
• Safe Passage Immigration Project, New York Law School, Volunteer Attorney

• Gibney’s Pro Bono Committee, Past Chair
• Safe Passage Immigration Project, Volunteer

• Co-Chair & Speaker, Business Immigration Update, New York State Bar Association, December 2019
• Your Gateway to the U.S., Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce, August 2019
• Introduction to H-1B Specialty Workers, American Immigration Lawyers Association Annual Conference, June 2018
• Trump Administration and U.S. Immigration, Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce, May 2017
• Party of Two at the Elvis Chapel: Marriage-Based Immigration Cases, American Immigration Lawyers Association Annual Conference, June 2016
• Safe Passage Immigration Project Capstone, Justice Action Center, Volume IV, New York Law School, 2009

• Immigration

• New York Law School, J.D.
• Syracuse University, B.A., magna cum laude, International Relations and Political Science

• New York

• New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division