Raydar
Business Visa Attorney
$130K–$170K
Rochester, New York · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026
- Experience
- 3 to 7 years.
- Education
- Juris Doctor from an accredited law school.
About the job
Advise corporate clients on employer-sponsored temporary and permanent work authorization, preparing filings and guiding filing strategy, compliance, and case deadlines.
What you'll do
- Manage employer-sponsored work-authorization filings, including foreign-worker certifications, petitions, and waiver applications.
- Draft and file applications and petitions; respond to agency evidence requests, notices of intent to deny, audits, and appeals.
- Advise HR and in-house legal teams on strategy, timing, and compliance while coordinating with other practice groups.
What they ask for
- 3 to 7 years of business-side work-authorization legal experience, including employment-based petitions, foreign-worker certifications, and temporary visa categories.
- Law-firm experience handling certification cases, temporary visa petitions, permanent visa petitions, evidence requests, and certification audits.
- Juris Doctor from an accredited law school; admission to the New York bar or readiness to seek it.
- Authorization to work in the United States; willingness to work on-site about 50% of the time at an Upstate New York office, with local ties or willingness to relocate.
Nice to have
- Experience with physician waiver applications.
- Experience preparing extraordinary-ability petitions.
Pay
USD 130,000 to 170,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
case management software
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