Working across a diversity of sectors, Akerman LLP provides a full-service immigration offering advising a range of clients on immigration strategies, compliance issues, pre-immigration tax and visa planning. The team are also adept at strategizing on corporate expansion and filing petitions in the EB-5 investor category. Recent standout work includes the filing of over 150 immigrant petitions for Adventist Health System. The practice is led by a triumvirate of experts, Eric Gordon chairs the labor and employment practice group from West Palm Beach, alongside Maria Casablanca, who serves as chair on the immigration and compliance practice in Miami. Third co-head, Denise Gavica Perez, also operates from Miami and represents a wide range of sectors on both investment-based immigration and employment-based immigration matters. They are supported by Anthony El-Hashem in Miami, a former trial attorney at the U.S Department of Justice, who brings extensive experience in handling nonimmigrant visas, employment-based immigration petition and I-9 compliance issues.
Key clients
- Adventist Health System
- Adventist Health System Sunbelt Healthcare Corp.
- SOFIDEL America Corp.
- Kettering Health Network
- University of Louisville Health (UofL Health)
Work highlights
- Assisted Adventist Health System filing over 150 Immigrant Petitions to fill registered nurse vacancies since January of 2023.
- Ensured a 100% success rate on over 400 registered nurse, Schedule A, immigrant petitions for alien worker (Form I-140) filings with the USCIS for Kettering Health Network.
- Serving as immigration counsel to University of Louisville Health, filing over 200 immigrant visa petitions with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for nurses worldwide.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Eric Gordon, Maria Casablanca, Denise Gavica Perez