# Business Immigration Associate **Company**: Fragomen **Location**: Pittsburgh, US-Pittsburgh **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Legal **Industry**: Legal **Apply**: https://fragomen.wd115.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/FragomenCareers/job/US-Pittsburgh-Wexford/Immigration-Attorney--Legal-Review_REQ-028212?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/job/business-immigration-associate-38a312af-403/ ## Description A career as a Business Immigration Associate at Fragomen gives you the opportunity to work with a smart, motivated, and diverse peer group. The Co-Located Immigration Attorney conducts an independent final legal review of designated employment-based immigration applications and petitions prepared through the Case Processing and Production Operations Center (CPPOC) and approved by the originating legal team. Key responsibilities: - Conduct the level review required by Firm Professional Responsibility Counsel for every assigned filing. - Review the originating legal team’s recorded approval, case owner, issue-focused handoff, material case history, filing deadline and designated legal contact. - Confirm that the filing is sufficiently supported by the information and documentation provided and is appropriate for the attorney to sign. - Identify material inconsistencies, omissions, unsupported representations, legal concerns or discrepancies between the approved version and assembled package. - Obtain clarification, additional information or documentation when needed to understand the filing and make an independent signing decision. - Decline to sign, stop or return a filing when concerns are unresolved, and escalate professional responsibility or ethical issues through approved channels. - Confirm that Form G-28 accurately identifies the signing attorney and contains correct contact and bar admission information. - Confirm the applicable attorney signature requirements for each form and sign Form G-28 and other required attorney fields in wet ink only after completing the required review. - Follow the Firm-approved procedure for matters where attorney information must be provided before a client signs. - Ensure any pre-entered attorney information is handled in accordance with guidance approved by Firm Professional Responsibility Counsel. - Release the filing to CPPOC only after all attorney review and signature requirements are satisfied. - Work directly with the responsible attorney or designated legal-team contact to resolve questions arising during final review. - Return substantive changes to the originating legal team for renewed review and approval before signing. - Maintain clear accountability boundaries among legal assessment, filing preparation, independent final review, signature and post-filing ownership. - Provide constructive feedback on recurring handoff, documentation, quality or process issues that affect signing readiness. - Build trusted working relationships while retaining independence over every decision to sign. - Confirm that the printed and assembled package corresponds to the version approved by the originating legal team. - Apply Firm-approved review checklists, controls and professional responsibility guidance. - Return signed packages for reconciliation of the original signed pages against the approved version before mailing. - Maintain an appropriate record of the review, questions raised, responses obtained, signing decision and any filing returned or declined. - Participate in quality reviews, pilot assessments and control testing for the co-located attorney model. - Identify process improvements that strengthen quality and timeliness without reducing the sufficiency or independence of attorney review. - Ensure the filing record identifies the originating legal-team case owner responsible for subsequent case activity. - Remain reasonably available for questions concerning the attorney’s review or signature, while the originating legal team retains ongoing substantive case ownership. - Follow approved procedures for planned absence, urgent USCIS contact, attorney coverage and any required change in representation. - Respond to administrative inquiries regarding verifiable/objective information, and coordinate with designated legal team on complex or substantive queries. Required qualifications: - Juris Doctor degree from an accredited law school. - Active admission in any U.S. jurisdiction and eligibility to remain in good standing. - 3-5+ years relevant business immigration experience as an attorney. - Working knowledge of Form G-28, relevant USCIS forms, attorney signature requirements and the responsibilities associated with appearing before USCIS. - Demonstrated ability to exercise independent legal judgment in a deadline-driven, production-oriented environment. - Ability to identify material legal, factual, documentary and procedural issues in complex filing packages. - Ability to work on-site at the CPPOC site as required for assembled-package review and wet-ink signature. - Strong written and verbal communication skills, sound escalation judgment, and high standards of confidentiality and professional ethics. Benefits: - 27 PTO days + Federal holidays - Medical, Dental, and Vision plans + FSA & HSA Plans - 401K plan, with company matching For more fresh new jobs, check out [yubhub.co](https://yubhub.co/). ## Skills ### Required - Juris Doctor degree - Form G-28 - USCIS forms - independent legal judgment ### Nice to have - experience reviewing US immigration filings - employment-based non-immigrant and immigrant visa matters - centralized case-preparation model --- Source: [Apply at fragomen.wd115.myworkdayjobs.com](https://fragomen.wd115.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/FragomenCareers/job/US-Pittsburgh-Wexford/Immigration-Attorney--Legal-Review_REQ-028212?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)