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Immigration Issues in Family Law 2024

Product ID: CA3600D
Presented By: State Bar of Wisconsin PINNACLE

This program is an excerpt from Advanced Skills & Techniques for Family Law Practice 2023

Immigration insights 

Each president is given broad legal authority of act on immigration, and recent administrations have made divergent changes. In this era of contested and rapidly evolving immigration policies, family law practitioners can face unique challenges when it comes to representing immigrants or non-citizen clients. Provide more informed, compassionate, and effective counsel to clients facing immigration questions with help from Immigration Issues in Family Law 2024.  

Join experienced immigration attorney Lucy Lu Lorentz for an examination of the key immigration issues impacting family law matters including custody disputes and divorce. Explore key topics such as:

  • The impact of immigration status on family law proceedings
  • How different types of visas can impact marriage, divorce, and parental rights
  • The available options for marriage-based green cards
  • Documenting a legitimate marriage relationship
  • How divorce or separation may impact immigration status
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This program is an excerpt from Advanced Skills & Techniques for Family Law Practice 2023

Immigration insights 

Each president is given broad legal authority of act on immigration, and recent administrations have made divergent changes. In this era of contested and rapidly evolving immigration policies, family law practitioners can face unique challenges when it comes to representing immigrants or non-citizen clients. Provide more informed, compassionate, and effective counsel to clients facing immigration questions with help from Immigration Issues in Family Law 2024.  

Join experienced immigration attorney Lucy Lu Lorentz for an examination of the key immigration issues impacting family law matters including custody disputes and divorce. Explore key topics such as:

  • The impact of immigration status on family law proceedings
  • How different types of visas can impact marriage, divorce, and parental rights
  • The available options for marriage-based green cards
  • Documenting a legitimate marriage relationship
  • How divorce or separation may impact immigration status
Read More ↓

Lucy Lu Lorentz is a founding partner of Chou & Lu Law, LLP which subsequently became Lu Law Office, LLC in August 2023. Ms. Lu Lorentz is the sole owner and has been working in the field of immigration for more than 10 years. Prior to starting her own practice, Attorney Lu Lorentz was the business immigration attorney at a Madison-based firm, and she has had a successful legal career working with different legal service providers, business entities, and academic institutions. 

Ms. Lu Lorentz provides immigration services for a wide range of matters at both the national and global levels, assisting foreign workers to maintain or acquire legal status with H-1B, L-1, TN, and B visas, and filing employment-based petitions for NIW, EB-1A, EB-1B, PERM, and family-based immigration visas. 

Ms. Lu Lorentz was selected by Super Lawyers as a Rising Star in November 2022. She was later interviewed by The Capital Times about the importance of legal services to the underserved community. She has been recognized in Marquis Who's Who for 2023 and she is a finalist for the 2023 Marketplace Diverse Business Champion of the Year Award for the State of Wisconsin. 

Ms. Lu Lorentz works almost exclusively with immigrants and has successfully petitioned for them before the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the Department of State, and the Department of Labor. In addition to English, Attorney Lu Lorentz also speaks fluent Mandarin and Cantonese. She is licensed to practice law in Wisconsin and New York.

  • Receive an overview of the key immigration issues in family law matters
  • Understand the importance of taking clients’ immigration status into consideration
  • Learn the most commonly used immigrant and non-immigrant visa types
  • Know the different types of marriage-based green cards and their requirements
  • Account for the impact of divorce on client immigration status
  • Gain insight on overcoming language barriers 
  • Family law practitioners
  • Guardians ad litem for minors
  • Family Court Services professionals
  • Family Court Commissioners 

Lucy Lu Lorentz is a founding partner of Chou & Lu Law, LLP which subsequently became Lu Law Office, LLC in August 2023. Ms. Lu Lorentz is the sole owner and has been working in the field of immigration for more than 10 years. Prior to starting her own practice, Attorney Lu Lorentz was the business immigration attorney at a Madison-based firm, and she has had a successful legal career working with different legal service providers, business entities, and academic institutions. 

Ms. Lu Lorentz provides immigration services for a wide range of matters at both the national and global levels, assisting foreign workers to maintain or acquire legal status with H-1B, L-1, TN, and B visas, and filing employment-based petitions for NIW, EB-1A, EB-1B, PERM, and family-based immigration visas. 

Ms. Lu Lorentz was selected by Super Lawyers as a Rising Star in November 2022. She was later interviewed by The Capital Times about the importance of legal services to the underserved community. She has been recognized in Marquis Who's Who for 2023 and she is a finalist for the 2023 Marketplace Diverse Business Champion of the Year Award for the State of Wisconsin. 

Ms. Lu Lorentz works almost exclusively with immigrants and has successfully petitioned for them before the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the Department of State, and the Department of Labor. In addition to English, Attorney Lu Lorentz also speaks fluent Mandarin and Cantonese. She is licensed to practice law in Wisconsin and New York.

  • Receive an overview of the key immigration issues in family law matters
  • Understand the importance of taking clients’ immigration status into consideration
  • Learn the most commonly used immigrant and non-immigrant visa types
  • Know the different types of marriage-based green cards and their requirements
  • Account for the impact of divorce on client immigration status
  • Gain insight on overcoming language barriers 
  • Family law practitioners
  • Guardians ad litem for minors
  • Family Court Services professionals
  • Family Court Commissioners 
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