Overview
Ieva helps companies secure and retain foreign talent efficiently and compliantly, offering practical, risk-calibrated guidance across the full spectrum of employment and business immigration matters.
With extensive experience representing multinational corporations, emerging growth companies, and individual investors, Ieva provides strategic counsel on all aspects of U.S. immigration and nationality law, including non-immigrant visas, permanent residence petitions, and citizenship and naturalization matters. She also advises clients on I-9 compliance, E-Verify, immigration enforcement actions, and immigration-related aspects of corporate restructurings.
Ieva’s practice encompasses high-volume workforce mobility programs as well as bespoke immigration solutions for executives, founders, researchers, and other professionals. She serves clients in a wide range of industries, including financial services, life sciences, renewable energy, hospitality, technology, food and beverage, utilities, retail and wholesale, healthcare, education, and professional services.
Experience
Representative Experience
- Lead immigration counsel to multinational corporations managing high-volume U.S. workforce mobility programs, including H-1B, L-1 (blanket and individual), TN, O-1, E-2, and E-1 visa categories, as well as PERM-based and PERM-exempt immigrant petitions.
- Designed and implemented scalable immigration compliance frameworks from Fortune 500 to growth-stage companies.
- Developed and executed green card sponsorship strategies for key executives, researchers, and highly specialized professionals, including EB-1, EB-2 NIW, and complex PERM matters.
- Represented venture-backed founders and individual investors in E-2 treaty investor matters and provided guidance regarding strategic immigration planning tied to capital raises and business expansion.
- Guided multinational organizations through complex cross-border mobility issues, including work authorization strategy, global mobility program design, and risk mitigation for international assignments.
- Successfully resolved high-stakes, time-sensitive RFEs, NOIDs, consular processing challenges, and compliance investigations.
- Partnered with clients’ executive leadership, in-house counsel, HR, and global mobility teams to align immigration strategy with broader talent acquisition, retention, and workforce planning goals.
News & Resources
Articles
News & Press Mentions
Events & Speaking Engagements
Select Presentations
- Speaker, "Update on Investment-Based Immigration Strategies," Minnesota State Bar Association, November 2019
- “Preventing Harassment and Discrimination in the Workplace,” April 2015
- “Business Immigration for Startups: Options and Challenges,” CoMotion, the University of Washington, February 2015
- “President Obama’s Executive Action on Immigration,” National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition’s Fruit Industry Seminar, January 2015
- “Overview of U.S. Immigration Law & Procedures,” NALS Seminar, November 2014
- “Step-by-Step Guide for Employers on How to Prepare and File H-1B Petitions,” Dorsey & Whitney LLP Breakfast Briefing, January 2015
- “Watch Your Step! Minimizing Risks During the Onboarding Process,” Dorsey & Whitney LLP Breakfast Briefing, October 2014
- “Overview of U.S. Immigration Law & Procedures for Employers,” Salt Lake City Labor and Employment Seminar, May 2014
Industries & Practices
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