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Position Summary: The Legal Assistant is responsible for working with the immigration attorney to prepare employment-based immigration petitions.
Qualifications: The Legal Assistant must have a high school degree; a minimum of 1 year experience working as a Legal Assistant and have effective communication, organizational and computer skills including Outlook, Microsoft Word and Excel.
Responsibilities:
Communicate with beneficiaries by phone and email to collect documents and information needed for immigration petitions.
Using beneficiaries’ and employers’ information and documents, complete petition forms, letters, and related documents.
Request checks and electronic payments for government filing fees.
Assemble petitions for the attorney’s review, scan them, and file them with U.S. government agencies.
Log and scan correspondence from government agencies and save documents in beneficiaries’ case records.
Answer beneficiaries’ questions about general steps in immigration processes, current government processing times, and the status of their cases.
Maintain a detailed log of all actions taken for all cases.
Organize and manage cases in the assigned caseload to ensure timely and efficient handling of cases.
Track time spent working on various employers’ cases, so that costs can be properly attributed to each company.
Meet with the attorney on a weekly basis to discuss caseloads, any issues, and current developments in immigration processes.
Vacancy caducado!