Meagan E. Dziura

With over a decade of practice in employment-based immigration, Meagan Dziura advises clients on implementing innovative workforce solutions that attract cutting-edge talent from across the globe. Her expertise enables clients to create immigration policies that focus on hiring, retention, and compliance for a modern foreign national workforce within the rapidly evolving immigration space. She partners with multinational corporations and businesses of all sizes across several industries, especially automotive manufacturing, financial services, information technology, clinical research, and higher education.

Before joining the firm, Meagan practiced at a boutique corporate immigration law firm in the Washington D.C. area. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English from George Mason University and earned her Juris Doctorate from George Mason University School of Law, where she served as the Publications Editor of the Journal of Law, Economics & Policy.

Meagan specializes in full-service immigration program management, and her extensive experience includes:

• Designing processes for clients to scale large immigration programs in a cost-efficient way, including National Interest Waiver programs;
• Conducting full lifecycle PERM labor certifications and designing alternatives to PERM-based EB-2/EB-3 green cards, such as National Interest Waivers, and EB-1 Multinational Managers, Outstanding Researchers, and Extraordinary Ability;
• Overseeing Special Handling PERMs for university and college professors, and Schedule A PERMs for nurses and physical therapists;
• Advising on corporate immigration compliance, including I-9 Policies and Programs, best practices, and risk assessment;
• Guiding universities on F-1 and SEVIS updates, and building J-1 programs from corporate clients;
• Petitioning for all nonimmigrant and immigrant visa types, including H-1B, H-4, TN, E-3, E-2, H-1B1, EB-1, EB-2, and EB-3; and
• Steering clients through immigration challenges brought on by changes in labor markets, pandemics, and government-imposed travel restrictions.