SCHROEDER IRELAND, LLC is a full-service immigration law office helping employers comply with complex regulations related to hiring foreign workers.  We help employers conduct self-audits and implement compliance policies with the goal of avoiding immigration-related criminal or civil sanctions.

SCHROEDER IRELAND, LLC also handles a broad range of employment-based immigration matters, and is committed to helping families stay together through family-based immigrant petitions.

Amy Schroeder Ireland is the principal attorney and founder of Schroeder Ireland, LLC.  With experience working on a wide array of immigration matters, Amy has a deep understanding of the immigration system.  She has represented employers in a variety of immigration-related matters, and has also represented individuals before the Immigration Judge, the Board of Immigration Appeals, and the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. 

Specifically, Amy has experience working on the following types of immigration matters:

Employer Sanctions

I-9 Self-Audits:  Auditing company hiring records to ensure compliance with I-9 regulations;

Employment Authorization Verification Training:  Training business owners, management and human resources personnel regarding proper procedures for verifying workforce employment authorization and avoiding charges of unlawful discrimination;

Corporate Compliance Policies:  Assisting employers draft and implement written policies to help ensure compliance with immigration-related employment regulations;

Sub-Contractor Compliance:  Assisting companies draft and implement sub-contractor agreements in order to avoid liability for sub-contractor immigration violations;

Immigrant Visas

PERM Petitions:  Guiding employers through the process of testing the labor market and filing permanent residency petitions for foreign workers;

Aliens of Extraordinary Ability:  Permanent residency petitions for aliens with extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, business or athletics;

Outstanding Professors and Researchers:  Permanent residency petitions for internationally recognized outstanding professors and researchers;

Family-Based Petitions:  Helping U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, refugees and asylees bring family-members to the United States;

Refugee / Asylee Adjustments:  Helping refugees and asylees adjust their status to lawful permanent residency;

Non-Immigrant Visas

H-1B Visas:  Professionals in specialty occupations;

H-2B Petitions:  Seasonal workers;

L-IA/L-1B Visas:  Intracompany transfers of managerial, executive, or specialized knowledge employees;

E-1/E-2 Visas:  International Treaty Traders and International Treaty Investors;

E-3 Visas:  Australians in specialty occupations;

O-1 Visas:  Aliens of extraordinary ability;

P-1 Visas:  Internationally recognized athletes;

R-1 Visas:  Religious workers;

TN Visas:  Canadian and Mexican professional workers;

Other

Asylum:  Helping victims of persecution apply for permanent refuge in the United States.

Convention Against Torture:  Helping individuals who will be subject to torture in their home countries apply for refuge in the United States.