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Lawyer Overview

Pam Nieto’s practice is focused on International Trade and Business Immigration matters. Ms. Nieto assists clients in all aspects of import and export matters, from providing guidance on compliance strategies and preparing commodity classification and ruling requests to formulating responses to enforcement actions, including seizures, penalty and liquidated damage cases. She offers analysis and advice on the use of preferential trade programs and on resolving classification, valuation and marking issues. Ms. Nieto also works with her clients in preparing and submitting license applications as well as voluntary disclosures.

Ms. Nieto has extensive experience in assisting clients in meeting their business immigration needs, whether a business desires to transfer an employee from an office abroad, or simply needs to hire a foreign national to fill a vacant position. She handles the full range of nonimmigrant visa matters, including H-1Bs (specialty occupation), L-1s (intracompany transfer), E-1s (treaty trader), E-2s (treaty investor), TNs (Treaty Nafta) and O-1s (extraordinary ability). She also handles employment-based immigrant visa matters. In addition, Ms. Nieto assists her clients in setting up compliance programs, including proper H-1B public information files, as well as I-9 employment verification programs.

Ms. Nieto is a member of the State Bar of Texas (International Law Section); the Houston Bar Association (International Law Section); the American Bar Association (International Law Section, Customs Law Committee, International Trade Committee and the Export Controls and Economic Sanctions Committee); the American Immigration Lawyers Association; the Texas Aggie Bar Association; the Association of Women Attorneys in Houston and the U.S.-Mexico Bar Association. She is also a member of the Organization of Women in International Trade (OWIT) - Houston Chapter where she serves as a Board Member/V.P. of Legal Affairs and Treasurer. In addition, Ms. Nieto is a member of the College of the State Bar of Texas and she is a regular volunteer with the Houston Volunteer Lawyers Program. Ms. Nieto is conversant in Spanish.

West Practice Categories

International Law

Bar Admissions

• U.S. Court of International Trade, 2008
• U.S. Court of Federal Claims
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Texas
• Texas, 1984

Education

• University of Houston Law Center, Houston, Texas, 1984
  J.D.
• Texas A&M University, 1981
  B.S.
  Honors: cum laude
  Major: Economics

Address

1000 Louisiana
Suite 2000
Houston, TX 77002-5009

Phones

(713) 646-1372

Faxes

(713) 751-1717

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