Selected Publications

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Usage of Patents in Employment-Based Petitions, with Brian C. Schmitt, 20 Bender’s Immigration Bulletin, 1033 (Sept. 15, 2015)

Does NYSDOT Really Say That? Lifting the Veil, in Immigration & Nationality Law Handbook, pp. 82-86 (AILA 2011-2012)

Twelve Years After: Six post-NYSDOT Physician NIWs: 2011 Update, with Karen L. Dean, in ILW Physician Immigration Book, 2011-2012, Robert A. Aronson, ed. (ILW 2012)

“656.17(h)(4)(ii) The Impact of PERM On Experience Gained on the Job and Alternative Experience, in THE PERM BOOK: Labor Certification, Second Edition, Joel Stewart, ed. (ILW 2009)

“656.17(h)(3) Combination of Occupations under PERM,” in THE PERM BOOK: Labor Certification, Second Edition, Joel Stewart, ed. (ILW 2009)

“656.17(e)(1)(B)(1)(4) Professional and Trade Journals Under PERM,” in THE PERM BOOK: Labor Certification, Second Edition, Joel Stewart, ed. (ILW 2009)

Ten Years After: Ten Successful Post-NYSDOT Clinical Physician NIWs, with Karen L. Dean, in Immigration Options for Physicians, Third ed., Catillaz, ed., (AILA 2009)

N. Waxman, "National Interest Waiver: Two Case Studies," AILA's Immigration Practice Toolbox, 3rd Ed. (AILA 2009)

“What a Difference a Field Makes: Field Delineation in the EB-1 and EB-2 Classifications,” Immigration & Nationality Law Handbook, pp.129-136 (AILA 2008-2009)

"Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor ...And Your Best and Your Brightest,” with Denise C. Hammond, Maryland Bar Journal, July/August 2006, Volume XXXIX Number 4

“National Interest Waiver Case Study,” in The AILA Immigration Practice Toolbox, 2nd Edition, (AILA 2006)

“Experience Gained On The Job And Alternative Experience: The Impact of PERM,” in THE PERM BOOK: Labor Certification, Joel Stewart, ed. (ILW, 2005)

“So Quick Bright Things Come to Confusion: AC-21 and the H-1B Cap,” with Naomi Schorr, 9 Bender’s Immigration Bulletin, 700, June 1, 2004

“Mainstreaming the Alternative: An Outline of Immigration Issues and Opportunities in Complementary and Alternative Health Care,” in Immigration Options for Physicians, Second ed., Catillaz, ed., 237, AILA 2004

“What’s the Angle? Overcoming NYSDOT’s Three Legs,” Immigration and Nationality Law Handbook (AILA 2002-2003)

“Evidentiary Considerations and Eligibility Criteria in EB-1 and EB-2 Adjudications,” with Carlos Recio, in Homeland Security, Business Insecurity: Immigration Practice in Uncertain Times, Auerbach et al., eds., 31, AILA 2003

“Seeking the Inscrutable National Interest Waiver: They’ve All Come to Look for America,” 02-9 Immigration Briefings (Sept. 2002), with Barbara Craig

"H-1B Portability: Is There a Safe Harbor in These Uncharted Waters?" 79 Interpreter Releases 97, January 21, 2002

"NYSDOT"; "National Interest Waivers One Year Down the Road," 76 Interpreter Releases 1641, November 15, 1999

"A Bend in the Road, Not the End of the Road: Reflections on Six Months of AAO Adjudications Following Matter of New York State Department of Transportation," with William Stock, Immigration and Nationality Law Handbook (AILA 1999-2000)

"The New York State Department of Transportation Decision: The End of the Road for the National Interest Waiver?" 75 Interpreter Releases 1289, September 21, 1998

"A Distinction Without a Difference? Misapplication of Exceptional and Extraordinary Ability Evidentiary Standards to Adjudication of National Interest Waiver Petitions of Advanced-Degree Professionals," in Immigration and Nationality Law Handbook, (AILA 1998-1999)

"A Practitioner's Guide to the National Interest Waiver," 97-7 Immigration Briefings, with Karen L. Dean, July 1997

"In the National Interest...recent successful, albeit unconventional, National Interest Cases," 4 AILA Monthly Mailing, April 1996