Immigration Law and Procedure: Business Immigration Module

Stephen Yale-Loehr (syl@millermayer.com) is co-author of Immigration Law & Procedure, the leading immigration law treatise, published by LexisNexis Matthew Bender. He also is Professor of Immigration Law Practice at Cornell University Law School, and is of counsel at Miller Mayer, LLP, in Ithaca, New York, where he advises many universities, businesses, and J exchange visitors. He also is a founding member of the Alliance of Business Immigration Lawyers. He also founded and was the first president of the Invest In the USA (IIUSA), a trade association of EB-5 immigrant investor regional centers. From 1994-1996, he was a Senior Associate for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C., where he co-authored a book proposing a new way to select economic immigrants. He is a non-resident fellow at the Migration Policy Institute in Washington, DC. He graduated from Cornell Law School in 1981, cum laude, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Cornell International Law Journal. In 2001, he received AILA’s Elmer Fried award for excellence in teaching. In 2004, he received AILA’s Edith Lowenstein award for excellence in the practice of immigration law. He is listed in Who’s Who in America, The Chambers Global Guide, New York Super Lawyers, and the International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers.

Ron Wada is Senior Counsel, Tafapolsky & Smith LLP, San Francisco, California. He specializes in preparing immigrant visa petitions for first preference extraordinary ability, outstanding researcher/professor, and multinational manager and executive categories as well as the second preference national interest waiver category, and the nonimmigrant O-1 visa category for individuals with extraordinary ability. He also has primary responsibility for overseeing appeals and troubleshooting difficult cases. Ron's diverse immigration law background includes nonimmigrant visas, immigrant employment-based first and second preference petitions, labor certifications, consular visa processing, naturalization and denaturalization, asylum, and removal defense. He has extensive appellate brief writing experience, has published a best-selling book on degree equivalency for employment-based green card applications, and has authored a variety of articles on topics in his areas of expertise in the legal journal, Bender's Immigration Bulletin. He has appeared in oral argument before the federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and has been a participant in the Board of Immigration Appeals Pro Bono Project. Mr. Wada is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), and has served on numerous AILA national committees to help resolve immigration law issues having nationwide impact. He received AILA's 2011 Edith Lowenstein Award for advancing the practice of immigration law, an AILA Presidential Commendation in 2006, as well as AILA's Edward L. Dubroff Memorial Award for Excellence in Research and Writing in the Field of Immigration Law. He has received the top A/V rating for attorneys issued by Martindale-Hubble, and has been selected for inclusion in the Best Lawyers in America. He has been a member of the editorial board for Bender’s Immigration Bulletin since 2000. Mr. Wada holds a J.D. degree from the University of Colorado, a Ph.D. in Environmental Science & Engineering from UCLA, and a Bachelor's degree in Physics from California State University, Los Angeles. He is admitted to practice law before the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the U.S. District Court, District of Colorado, and the Colorado Supreme Court.

Stanley Mailman (1930-2016) after twenty-five years as co-author of Immigration Law and Procedure . His entire professional career has been dedicated to the practice of Immigration law. He has served the Immigration bar in numerous capacities: past president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and of the Consular Law Society; former member of the boards of the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights and the International Rescue Committee; twice chair of the New York chapter of AILA; director of the American Foreign Law Association; service on the AILA board of governors. A frequent contributor to professional and scholarly journals, he wrote an Immigration column for the New York Law Journal from 1976 to 2006. His accomplishments have been recognized by awards from his colleagues in AILA and by listings in Who's Who in American Law and The Best Lawyers in America. Stanley Mailman is a graduate of Cornell University (B.A., J.D. ), and of New York University Law School (LL.M., International Law).