Speaker

Poonam Gupta is a Senior Counsel, and leads local operations for Berry Appleman & Leiden LLP’s New York office. She provides strategic and legal counsel to clients on all aspects of corporate and business immigration, working with organizations of all sizes in a wide variety of industries globally.

Her practice focuses on employment-based immigration matters, including assisting companies and their employees with all facets of nonimmigrant and immigrant visa matters. Poonam also provides guidance to employers on immigration compliance and immigration strategies related to corporate reorganizations. She regularly speaks at local and national conferences and events on corporate immigration and I-9 compliance.

Poonam’s active pro bono practice includes volunteering for the City University of New York’s Citizenship Now annual event, assisting with the Special Immigrant Juvenile docket, and leading a BAL team’s work with the International Refugee Assistance Project, including recent efforts to provide guidance on the Afghan refugee situation.