Stephanie Brown Howaniec

Stephanie Howaniec’s legal career started in human rights and legal aid followed by a boutique consular practice in London, but has now expanded to include all aspects of business immigration with a specialization in RFEs and PERM. Her international career has taken her to Spain, Rwanda, India, the UK, and Washington, D.C. before returning to settle in her hometown of Atlanta. She has traveled to more than 45 countries.

Stephanie’s practice focuses on advising a wide range of clients from those with only one or two foreign nationals to Fortune 100 clients and she advises on all types of employment-based visas and sponsorship for permanent residency.

Stephanie regularly leads trainings and presentations on the following topics: I-9, best hiring practices, annual quota/lottery registration, PERM, and hot topics and immigration trends.

Stephanie’s client services include:

• Treaty Trader and Treaty Investor Visas: E-1s and E-2s
• Non-immigrant Visas: H-1Bs, L-1s, TNs, E-3s, O-1s, H-3s, J-1s
• All steps of the PERM and PERM Audit process
• Immigrant Visas: EB-1, EB-2, EB-3 and Adjustment of Status
• Family-based cases including Adjustment of Status and Removal of Conditions
• Consular processing, visa stamping and international travel guidance
• Working closely with recruiters and hiring teams to guide processes and strategize seamless onboarding and visa status maintenance for visa holder populations of all sizes
• Comprehensive reporting on programmatic overview, visa renewals, initiating and tracking permanent residency, and auditing for various compliance purposes