Greg Siskind is a founding partner of Siskind Susser PC (www.visalaw.com) and is one of America’s best-known immigration attorneys. His firm has one of the largest health care immigration practices in the United States and represents many of the nation’s largest hospitals and hospital systems, as well as smaller health care employers, individual health care professionals, and other medical institutions.

Because of Greg’s expertise, he has authored many pieces of immigration-related legislation and has testified as an expert before the U.S. Congress’s House of Representatives Immigration Subcommittee. He has authored several books, including the Society of Human Resource Management’s Employer’s Immigration Compliance Desk Reference and LexisNexis’ J-1 Visa Guidebook.

Greg has been interviewed by more than 100 publications, including USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Time, NPR’s All Things Considered, National Law Journal, Forbes, Modern Healthcare, and Bloomberg BNA. Who’s Who in Corporate Immigration Law listed Greg as one of its top 10 most distinguished lawyers in North America, and Chambers and Partners named Greg as one of the top 25 immigration lawyers in the United States.

Greg is the current chair of the International Medical Graduate Taskforce (www.imgtaskforce.org), a physician immigration bar organization in the United States. He is one of the founders of Visalaw International (www.visalawint.com), a global alliance of immigration lawyers. Greg serves as vice chair of the American Health Lawyers Association’s Labor and Employment practice group (www.healthlawyers.org) and serves as a member of the Board of Governors of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (www.aila.org).

Greg is a man of many firsts. He created the first immigration law firm website in 1994 followed by the first lawyer blog in 1997. He also was the first immigration lawyer ever to grace the cover of the American Bar Association Journal.

Greg has been practicing law since 1990. He received his bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt University and his law degree from the University of Chicago.