Immigration Paralegal I

BAL is a team dedicated to exceptional immigration work and collaborative innovation. The Immigration Paralegal I will coordinate with Attorneys in preparing, filing, and monitoring various immigration and nationality law matters, while also providing client support and managing case documentation.

Responsibilities

• Under direction of Senior Paralegal/Attorney, takes lead in email/phone client communications
• Provides guidance to assignees regarding proprietary systems and case processing
• Increased understanding of client communication procedures and requirements
• Inputs client services rendered and sends to Accounting for processing
• Complete competence of case types previously handled and continually strives to advance and broaden knowledge base; demonstrates increasing levels of independence in case handling
• Processes more advanced and varied corporate immigration cases
• Evaluates cases, relays concerns, and proactively escalates to the appropriate BAL team members(s)
• Prepares forms, letters, documents and correspondence for attorney review; adapts tools and resources for casework which deviates from templates; increases knowledge of BAL best practices
• Manages status of all filed applications and petitions and finalizes documents after attorney review
• Utilizes document and data management systems to prepare, monitor, and record all aspects of client casework as per BAL policy
• Prepares internal caseload reports for management
• Shares process flow with assignees; Identifies problematic cases and discusses strategies and/or solutions with Attorney
• Performs research to obtain information such as background on a company or industry, current wages, processing procedures, standard processing times, etc
• Initiates contact with government agencies to obtain necessary information; alerts Senior Paralegal and/or attorney regarding potential process delays/problems

Skills

• Comfortable and ability to thrive in an extremely high volume environment
• Demonstrates sound judgement
• Ability to execute and work well with minimal supervision
• Strong attention to detail and ability to catch errors and correct work and the work of others
• Superior client service skills
• Effectively able to prioritize cases, caseload and other assigned tasks (i.e. projects, company management responsibilities, etc.)
• Ability to meet deadline and goals
• MS Office, Scan/Copy; learn, apply and effectively navigate daily use of propriety software
• Typically at least 1+ year(s) U.S. corporate immigration experience
• Bachelor's Degree; 1-year law-related experience under licensed attorney; or, PL certificate from ABA approved program

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Disability
• Life insurance
• Sick time
• Unlimited vacation
• 401(k) with company match

Company Overview

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