VisaPortal.com is a leading online immigration portal featuring immigration law resources, news, forms, message boards, glossaries, directories and much more. About Us Printer-Friendly Version of This Page! Email This Page to a Friend! Who We Are VisaPortal is a service-oriented association of immigration lawyers that was established to offer general guidance and specific legal services on matters related to U.S. immigration laws to intending family and business immigrants and nonimmigrants. The lawyers associated through VisaPortal are experienced practicing attorneys. They are well known in their communities for their commitment to excellence and high ethical standards. Their experience in Immigration matters is broad and their past clients include corporations and individuals in the United States and throughout the world. The lawyers of VisaPortal are united in the belief that the practice of law remains a service and the personal relationship that must exist between a lawyer and his client is central to the effective delivery of that service. VisaPortal aims to provide an efficient and friendly service to the highest standards. This aim demands not only professional excellence from our lawyers, but an understanding of each client's individual needs and the application of our skills to meet those needs. For business immigration clients, we expect our lawyers to have an intimate knowledge of the clients' businesses and the commercial context in which those businesses operate. Our Vision The Lawyers of VisaPortal share a vision of the modern world in which the United States through the development of democratic and egalitarian institutions can serve as a model of a truly global community where people of all races and creeds live and work together in a true "melting pot" of peoples and cultures. In the business context, we are dedicated to the global free movement of workers, professionals and businessmen. Services Printer-Friendly Version of This Page! Email This Page to a Friend! We provide legal services and advice to individuals and corporations in the United States and throughout the world. Our expertise is in: * international law of persons, * corporation or business law, and * administrative law. Business Immigration We offer services related to the following immigrant and nonimmigrant visas: * business visitor * NAFTA professionals * intra-company transferees * temporary professionals, models and nurses * nonimmigrant treaty traders and treaty investors * temporary workers * artists * athletes * entertainers * business people without professional degrees * students * trainees * student exchange programs * cultural exchange programs permanent residence for * internationally recognized scientists, educators and businessmen * other researchers * professors * international executives and managers * professionals with advanced degrees * Professionals and skilled workers * immigrant investors and entrepreneurs The employment-based immigration services listed above are offered to the employers as well as the foreign employees. Legislative Services Our physical proximity to Capitol Hill and cooperation with the American Bar Association, American Immigration Lawyers Association and the American Civil Liberties Union help us to offer one of the most effective legislative tracking and advocacy services for small associations and unassociated groups of employers. Start-Up Business Services We provide general advice and consultation regarding the best form of business to establish and the best place to establish it. The following is a partial list of the business services we provide. * name availability, name reservation and name protection * preparation of business constitution, certificate or articles of incorporation * obtaining tax payer identification * preparation of banking authorization resolution * presiding over organizational meeting * election of board members, officers, issue stock * preparation of minutes of organizational meeting and stock registry * review options and availability of election as S or C corporation * prepare minutes of board meetings * register to do business in states other than the state of incorporation * obtain business licenses In short, we can provide all legal services required to establish the business over the course of it's first year of existence including consultations with those who direct the affairs of the business. Other business services not related to business start-up include the following * contract drafting, review, negotiation and litigation * labor and immigration related matters * government regulatory matters. "immigration portal, ins processing times, immigration news, green card for usa, h1 b, eta 750, businessimmigration.com, eta 9035, u.s. immigration, work visa, work permits in usa, H1 b visa, L-1, family immigration, travel information visa h1b, h-2b visa us, foreign worker, labor certification, immigration forums" Our Fees Printer-Friendly Version of This Page! Email This Page to a Friend! S.G. McTyre, P.C. charges the following hourly rates: Consultation: $220 Administrative Procedures: $290 Civil and Administrative Litigation: $350 Immigration matters are charged on a fixed fee basis. Those fixed fees are determined by the amount of time we estimate that such a case will take. However, the fixed fee will not be altered regardless of how long the case actually takes. H1-B L-1 Visa Petition Permanent Residence through Labor Certification Family Petitions Family Based Adjustment of Status Family Based Consular Processing S. G. McTyre, P.C. generally bills on a flat fee, for immigration matters, rather than on an hourly, basis. Fees in each case reflect the individual facts presented, the urgency of the client’s problem, and the anticipated time and skill required to achieve the client’s goals. An initial retainer is required for the firm to accept the case. The balance is billed either on the basis of the completion of the various stages of the case or on budgetable equal monthly payments. The following are standard fees charged for some of the more common cases. H1-B Cost Paid To Paid By Terms Amount Legal Fees attorney company or employee · half in advance · half on completion.