Lawyer Bio
Karin Wolman is a graduate of Columbia University and UCLA School of Law. She began preparing employment based visa petitions at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the nation’s oldest performing arts center. She worked there when the O and P visa categories were first introduced for performing artists, obtaining visas for touring theater, opera and dance companies, musicians, multimedia artists, and children’s entertainment groups. Since 1996, Ms. Wolman has practiced in small & medium sized law firms handling immigration matters exclusively, and opened her own practice in 2006.
Ms. Wolman is a New York immigration attorney serving large companies, small businesses, non-profit organizations and individuals, spanning nearly every industry from healthcare, scientific research, non-profit service and academic institutions, to finance and technology firms. Also devoted to “aliens of extraordinary ability,” she has extensive experience serving institutional and individual clients in the arts, entertainment and design professions, including the fine arts, graphic and web design, performing arts, culinary arts, architecture, interior design, industrial and fashion design.
She advises employers on screening, hiring, work visas and green card sponsorship for workforce development and retention. She advises and helps individuals to obtain the right visas, permanent residence (green card) and US citizenship. She helps to plan appropriate visa strategies for transitions from student to professional, for job and career changes, to unite family members, and to overcome grounds of ineligibility or other obstacles to a visa, green card, or citizenship – such as waivers of the two year foreign residence requirement for J-1 exchange visitors, waivers of the three and ten year bars for those who have overstayed, and waivers for some types of criminal or immigration history.
Ms. Wolman has published articles with the American Immigration Lawyers Association, Practising Law Institute, New Jersey Institute of Continuing Legal Education, & New York State Bar Association, and speaks at local, national and international conferences on topics in immigration law. For AILA’s New York chapter, she has served as an officer of the Advocacy & Media, Continuing Legal Education, Corporate Practice, District Director Liaison, Citizenship Day & Social Committees; she has served on other committees including Pro Bono, Nominating, Unauthorized Practice of Law, and for the annual New York Symposium. At the national level, she has served on AILA’s Publications, Annual Conference Planning, Distance Learning, ACES (Athletics, Culture, Entertainment & Science) Committees, and the Vermont Service Center Liaison Committees; she has also served on the Rome-EMEA District Chapter’s Distance Learning Committee.
New York Immigration Lawyer – Karin Wolman
The Law Office of Karin Wolman, PLLC, is a New York immigration law firm in lower Manhattan handling work visas and U.S. business immigration matters, as well as family-based green cards and citizenship. Ms. Wolman is a NYC immigration lawyer who represents institutions, small companies, non-profit organizations and individuals at all stages in the process, from temporary visas for study and training, to artist and work visas for employment, lawful permanent residence (a “green card”), and naturalization to U.S. citizenship. She advises employers and individuals on all phases of student and work visa status, employment-based and family-based immigration, from recent graduates making the transition to the U.S. workplace and organizations screening prospective hires, to planning long-term visa strategies for staff retention and managing the impact of organizational changes, paths to permanent residence including PERM labor certification, Schedule A, Extraordinary Ability, Outstanding Researcher and National Interest Waivers, to U.S. citizenship. Ms. Wolman serves a diverse array of corporate and individual clients in art, architecture and design, fashion and beauty, performing arts, the sciences, engineering and technology, healthcare, education, finance, social services, religious and charitable organizations.
The Law Office of Karin Wolman
As an experienced NY work visa lawyer, Karin Wolman offers a hands-on approach with clear instructions and plenty of explanation, so clients know what to expect as their cases move forward. Immigration is complex, the rules seem to change constantly, and each stage can be overwhelming. A skilled attorney such as Ms. Wolman can provide clarity for the applicant and petitioner, to help steer you through the fog. Understanding what the rules are, and how the government currently interprets its own rules, can ease the stress and confusion of immigration processes that are all too often byzantine and baffling.