Speaker

Angelo A. Paparelli is a Partner in Seyfarth Shaw LLP and a California State Bar Board-Certified Immigration Law Specialist.  He counsels, represents and defends clients in a wide array of employment-based immigration compliance matters: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Form I-9 (Employment Eligibility Verification) inspections; DOL H-1B Wage and Hour Division investigations; USCIS Fraud Detection and National Security site visits, Justice Department antidiscrimination investigations by the Immigrant and Employee Rights Section, as well as involving mergers, acquisitions, and other entity changes; policy formulation; charges of discrimination and retaliation; petitions and applications for work visa and green card benefits (including the EB-5 and E-2 investor programs), and thought leadership in reforming immigration law.

He is named a Band 1 immigration lawyer by Chambers & Partners and Legal 500, a Los Angeles Daily Journal’s 2019 Top L & E California lawyers, and listed in Human Resource Executive® magazine’s Most Powerful Employment Attorneys Hall of Fame.  He blogs at Nation of Immigrators www.nationofimmigrators, and serves as a member of the board of editors of the American Immigration Lawyers Association’s  AILA Law Journal, which published his April 25, 2019 article, “USCIS’s Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate: Less Legitimate Than Inspector Clouseau, but Without the Savoir Faire.”