Nina focuses her practice on business and family-based immigration matters. Her experience encompasses nonimmigrant visa petitions including H-1B visas, L-1A and L-1B visas, TN visas under the NAFTA treaty, and O-1 visas. She also assists clients with employment-based permanent residence petitions including the labor certifications process, EB-1 extraordinary ability, EB-1 outstanding professor and researchers and EB-1 multinational managers and executives petitions; family-based permanent residence applications; naturalization applications; and foreign visa issues. She guides clients through the process of obtaining short-term visas and permanent residence status for skilled personnel, including technical professionals, accountants, scientists, managers and executives. Nina also provides counsel regarding effective immigration compliance programs.
The 2018 NLR Go-To Thought Leadership Award for Article of the year goes to Kimberly A. Clarke and Nina Thekdi of Varnum LLP for USCIS Outlines Protocols for New Employment Permanent Residence Interviews as it received over 100,000 views, 300 + Likes on Facebook and was mentioned and linked to by several other publications.