Matthew Morse

Matthew Morse has practised employment-based immigration law for more than 20 years. He has experience with many areas of Green Card processing, including PERM labour applications and immigrant visa petitions, as well as Adjustment of Status applications.

He has additional experience with naturalisation issues and applications, family-based immigration matters and many nonimmigrant visa categories, including the B, E, F, H, K, L, O, R and TN categories, as well as consular processing matters.

Matt has published numerous articles in Immigration Daily (ILW.com) and International Law Office (internationallawoffice.com), as well as Lexology and Mondaq, and has been a speaker for immigration webinars offered by ILW and the Knowledge Group.

He is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), and has strong knowledge of federal immigration statutes and regulations. “Keeping clients informed of changes in the law, and what those changes might mean for their immigration objectives, is crucial,” he noted. “Companies need to know that we are giving them the most current information and guidance in a timely manner – so that adjustments to their talent mobility strategies may be made accordingly.”

His services encompass employment-based immigration case processing for PERM labour applications, Multi-National Manager & Executive petitions, Extraordinary Ability Alien petitions, National Interest Waiver petitions, Outstanding Professor & Researcher petitions, as well as various nonimmigrant case processing for the H-1B, H-1B1, L-1, K, O-1, E-2, E-3, TN and B-1 categories. Moreover, he advises clients on how mergers, acquisitions and corporate reorganisations may impact both immigrant and nonimmigrant case processing, and makes recommendations on how to handle such restructurings. His services extend to family-based immigration matters, consular processing issues, as well as US citizenship application processing.

Over the years, he has held internships with the Michigan Attorney General’s Office, the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office and the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality. He previously practised in the areas of gaming law, real property law and contract law, and his interest in immigration law developed out of these experiences, and out of a desire to help businesses and individuals navigate federal immigration laws. “I see my role as making this process as clear and manageable as possible for our clients,” he added. “It’s important to listen to the client, and to interact with them in a meaningful way.”

To date, Matt has processed casework for some of the top IT filers in the US, as well as for one of the largest architectural firms in the world. His clients reside in such sectors as IT and engineering, and include business professionals and owners, STEM researchers, healthcare workers, athletes, artists and foreign nationals pursuing certain family-based immigration benefits.

He recently processed more than 250 PERM audits successfully, as well as approximately 100 PERM cases selected for supervised recruitment. He was also a speaker at the American Immigration Lawyers’ Association National Conference for two years, wherein the focus was on PERM labour application processing.