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Law Firm Overview

Nicole C. Dillard

Ms. Dillard's practice focuses on business immigration and corporate visa matters related to businesses seeking to employ both skilled and unskilled workers both in the United States and abroad. Specifically, she assists businesses seeking to sponsor employees for both non-immigrant and immigrant visa status and advises them of their responsibilities in the immigration process. Ms. Dillard has an expertise in obtaining permanent resident status through National Interest Waivers, Outstanding Researcher and Extraordinary Ability based petitions for scientists, researchers and high-tech professionals. Ms. Dillard has also represented clients in a variety of non-immigrant visa matters (L-1, H-1B, B-1/2, O, P, TN, J-1 and J-1 waivers, H-2B, and H-3), family based immigrant visa (family based petitions including Fiancee (e), spouse and children) matters and citizenship/naturalization applications. Ms. Dillard also provides Employment law assistance to employers of foreign nationals to advise them with the Employment and Labor laws that govern foreign national employees.

Ms. Dillard has represented and advised clients such as Children's National Medical Center and Norfolk Public School System and has also presented on important immigration topics before Human Resources professionals of Children's National Medical Center and other organizations. Further, Ms. Dillard is the author of a weekly Employer Alert, a section targeted specifically to employers as they navigate through the immigration process.

Ms. Dillard's office is located in Washington D.C. and provides legal representation primarily to clients in the Washington D.C. Metropolitan area, Virginia, and Maryland, but has also provided legal assistance to clients all over the continental U.S. and abroad.

Ms. Dillard is a graduate of Catholic University, Columbus School of Law. She has also earned her Master's of Education in Bilingual Education from Boston University and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Virginia. For matters other than immigration, Ms. Dillard is licensed to practice law in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the District of Colombia. She is admitted to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, Court of Appeals for the District of Colombia and the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth of Virginia. She is also a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, American Bar Association, and the Greater Washington Area Chapter, Women's Division of the National Bar Association. Prior to becoming an attorney, Ms. Dillard was an English as a Second Language teacher for Fairfax County Public Schools in Northern Virginia.

Areas of Practice

• Business Immigration
• Corporate Visa
• Employment law

West Practice Categories

Employment Law -- Employee, Employment Law -- Employer, Immigration & Naturalization Law, Asylum, Immigration, Naturalization & Citizenship, Visas