AMANDA ALVES
Senior Business Immigration Analyst
Roselle Park,NJ
Summary
Dedicated team player with extensive background in legal support focused on immigration cases and related concerns. Proficient in assisting with visa applications, asylum requests and court cases. Fluent in English and Portuguese.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Sr. Business Immigration Analyst
Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy
Matawan, NJ
07.2021 - Current
- Handling PERM applications from start to finish;
- PERM strategies including the following: Initiations of the Job Profile, Prevailing wage request analysis and submission (OES and Private Surveys), Prevailing wage determination analysis, PERM Recruitment - drafting documents, creating evidences and printing timely in accordance with the compliances, preparing pre Audit pre filings, monitoring cool off period and deadlines, drafting and submitting the PERM application, Max-out issues and timing, Green card timeline for a diverse population of foreign nationals;
- Drafting and filing Adjustment of Status under Employment-based categories;
- Update case management system (Fragomen Connect Portal);
- Meeting assigned deadlines and communicate case progress/status/issues to clients;
- Demonstrate flexibility and initiative regarding assignments for self and team
- Average weekly case count 60.
Immigration Paralegal
Greenspoon Marder, LLP
Edison, NJ
06.2019 - 07.2020
- Worked, prepared and managed of a full range of business immigration petitions and individual applications for corporate clients including: H-1B (direct and third-party employment), L-1 (blanket and individual), TNs, F-1s, PERMs (batch and individual), I-140s (EB-2, EB-3, Downgrades), I-485, I-539, E-3s, I-130, I-751, etc;
- Worked on several high volume client accounts to complete the following: prepare filings, track expirations of immigration documents such as I-94s, monitor H/L max out dates;
- Served as the main point of contact for corporate client and foreign nationals, and ensure payment of legal fee;
- Prepared Invoices;
- Utilized various databases and systems to complete work including INSZoom (Immigration Case Management), iManage (Document Management System), 3E Elite (Billing and Payables), Flag (Filing of LCAs and PWDs), FLC (PERMs), Dropbox/Google Drive (Client Document Retrieval), among others;
- Prepared and filed over 80 I-140 Downgrades and I-485 in October 2020
- Registered 15 company’s and over 200 foreign nationals for the FY2022 H-1B Lottery in March 2021;
- Average weekly case count 75.
Immigration Paralegal
Law Offices Of Thomas V Allen, PLLC
South Plainfield, NJ
06.2018 - 07.2020
- Prepared and filed immigrant visa and non- immigrant filings such as -140s (EB-1, EB-2, EB- 3, Interfiling, Downgrades), I-485, I-130, I-751, N-400, EAD, AP, H-1B (CAP, Non-CAP, COE, COS, Amendment), Dependents filing (H-4, L-2, F-2, etc), B-1/B-2, F- 1s., RFEs, Motions to Reopen;
- Prepared PERM strategies including the following: Initiations of the Job Profile, Prevailing wage request analysis and submission (OES and Private Surveys), Prevailing wage determination analysis, PERM Recruitment - drafting documents, creating evidences and printing timely in accordance with the compliances, preparing pre Audit pre filings, monitoring cool off period and deadlines, drafting and submitting the PERM application, Max-out issues and timing, Green card timeline for a diverse population of foreign nationals;
- Collected all necessary documents and information from employer and Foreign National, drafting PERM job summary, scheduling recruitment, drafting any necessary DOL/USCIS forms, assembly of packages, shipment and tracking of case status;
- Management System used eImmigration (Cerenade);
- Average weekly case count 50
Immigration Paralegal
Mignone Law Firm, LLC
Newark, NJ
03.2018 - 06.2018
- Prepared family-based immigrant petitions and citizenship such as I-485, VAWA, EAD/AP, Waiver Cases, FOIA, Asylums;
- Responsible for meeting clients for family matters;
- Preparing motions such as custody, divorces, among others in New Jersey and New York Municipal Courts;
- Responsible for case monitoring with Municipal Courts;
- Responsible for managing dead-lines, clients queries, and case research.
Legal Intern
Office of Federal Public Defender, DPU
09.2015 - 08.2017
- Prepared and Filed motions to the Federal Court in matters such as Social Security, Federal Crimes, Civil, Tax, and Labor;
- Responsible for support the Federal Attorney with legal research and meeting clients;
- Responsible to attend to court hearings.
Education
Bachelor of Law (LLB) - Law
FADIVALE
Brazil 01.2013 - 01.2017
Associate - Information Technology
ETEIT
06.2012 - 12.2013
Skills
Business Immigration
Specialty in PERM Applications
Specialty in Immigrant Petitions/AOS
Visa classifications (H, L, TN, O, E, F, B)
Proficient in MS Office
Office management
Bilingual (Portuguese/English)
Motivated and self-starter
Compliance
Excellent organizational and time-management skills
Able to multitask in fast-paced and busy immigration practice
Flexibility and initiative regarding assignments for self and team
Accomplishments
- Achieved a published defense article with accuracy and efficiency. Throughout the last 2 years of my graduation, I started my research with the assistance of the Brazilian Federal Judge, Wesley Vadim. My article defends the negatively impact of the procedural institute inside of the Social Security judicial systems that has been created a chaos. My article competed with more than 100 other articles. Available in Anexo XIV - Number 16, 2019 [http://www.fadivale.com.br/portal/revista/]
Timeline
Sr. Business Immigration Analyst
Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy
07.2021 - Current
Immigration Paralegal
Greenspoon Marder, LLP
06.2019 - 07.2020
Immigration Paralegal
Law Offices Of Thomas V Allen, PLLC
06.2018 - 07.2020
Immigration Paralegal
Mignone Law Firm, LLC
03.2018 - 06.2018
Legal Intern
Office of Federal Public Defender, DPU
09.2015 - 08.2017
Bachelor of Law (LLB) - Law
FADIVALE
01.2013 - 01.2017
Associate - Information Technology
ETEIT
06.2012 - 12.2013