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  Adam S. Cohen

  As a 19-year-old study-abroad student in the ancient university town of Salamanca, located in northwestern Spain, author Adam S. Cohen became fully immersed in the benefits of international education and exchange (diversity of perspective, open mindedness, solidarity, empathy, and so on). It was his first trip abroad and he remembers that semester as life-changing. His experience there was a driving force behind his decision to become an immigration attorney. Now over 20 years later, through his immigration practice with the internationally known firm of Siskind Susser, Adam is honored to represent both individuals and entities—researchers, scholars, university faculty, students, physicians, nurses, allied health professionals, universities, academic medical centers, health care systems, hospitals, and private medical practices. Adam has been recognized as a Future Leader by Who’s Who Legal: Corporate Immigration, as well as a Super Lawyers 2021 Mid-South Rising Star. He has been quoted in The Times of India, Bloomberg Law, and other press and has written articles and op-eds for various mainstream publications.

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  Ari Sauer

  Ari Sauer represents corporate and individual clients in all areas of U.S. immigration law with the Siskind Susser Law Firm, in Memphis, TN. Mr. Sauer is a former Elected Director of the Board of Governors of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). He has previously served as Chapter Chair of the AILA Mid-South Chapter, which includes the states of Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Kentucky, and Louisiana. He regularly speaks about immigration law for AILA and the Federal Bar Association and has contributed a number of articles on immigration publications.

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  Brian C. Schmitt

  Brian C. Schmitt is the President of Hake & Schmitt in New Windsor, Maryland, where he concentrates on various waiver applications with an emphasis on J-1 waivers, in particular Form I-612 hardship and persecution waivers, handling such matters at all stages including administrative appeals and federal litigation. Brian has contributed to the legal literature in the difficult area of program, policy, and foreign relations issues in J-1 waiver cases involving U.S. government funding such as Fulbright cases. He is interested in litigation involving judicial review of J-1 waiver denials based on negative State Department recommendations. He serves on the editorial board of Bender’s Immigration Bulletin. He is also a Major, Judge Advocate (Reserve Soldier), in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps, where he focuses on military justice (criminal law), administrative law, international and operational law, and legal assistance. Brian received his B.S. in General Biology from the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, and received his J.D. from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law in Detroit, Michigan, where he served as a member the University of Detroit Mercy Law Review.

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  Bruce E. Buchanan

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  Christopher Specht

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  Elissa J. Taub

  Elissa J. Taub is a partner of Siskind Susser PC, where she leads the firm’s health care immigration practice group. She handles a variety of immigration matters for doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals. Her practice also includes immigration processes for individuals in the sports, entertainment, and fashion industries. Elissa has authored many articles, spoken at conferences related to physician and health care immigration, and is regularly invited by clients to present on immigration matters. She is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and has served on its Health Care Professionals Committee. She also is an active member of the American Health Lawyers Association and the IMG Taskforce. Elissa has been listed in the Who’s Who in Corporate Immigration Law for multiple consecutive years. She earned her law degree from Villanova University School of Law in Villanova, PA, where she graduated magna cum laude, Order of the Coif. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Washington University in St. Louis.

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  Greg Siskind

  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.

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  Jason Susser

  Jason Susser is an attorney with Siskind Susser PC and works extensively with entrepreneurs to find creative immigration solutions for startup companies in the United States. Greg Siskind is a founding partner of Siskind Susser PC and is one of America’s best-known immigration attorneys. Siskind Susser (www.visalaw.com) is internationally known for advising startups on immigration matters. The firm has worked with some of the top accelerator programs in the country, represented countless award-winning entrepreneurs, and worked with top universities to help foreign students start companies after graduation. Siskind Susser advises businesses ranging from the solo entrepreneur to the Fortune 500.

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  Stephen Yale-Loehr

  Stephen Yale-Loehr is co-author of Immigration Law and Procedure, the leading immigration law treatise, published by LexisNexis Matthew Bender. He also is Professor of Immigration Law Practice at Cornell University Law School, and is of counsel at Miller Mayer, LLP, in Ithaca, New York, where he advises many universities, businesses, and J exchange visitors. He also is a founding member of the Alliance of Business Immigration Lawyers. He also founded and was the first president of the Invest In the USA (IIUSA), a trade association of EB-5 immigrant investor regional centers. From 1994-1996, he was a Senior Associate for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C., where he co-authored a book proposing a new way to select economic immigrants. He is a non-resident fellow at the Migration Policy Institute in Washington, DC. He graduated from Cornell Law School in 1981, cum laude, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Cornell International Law Journal. In 2001, he received AILA’s Elmer Fried award for excellence in teaching. In 2004, he received AILA’s Edith Lowenstein award for excellence in the practice of immigration law. He is listed in Who’s Who in America, The Chambers Global Guide, New York Super Lawyers, and the International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers.

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  Tatia L. Gordon-Troy

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  William Stock

  William Stock is a partner in Klasko Immigration Law Partners, LLP, a firm devoted exclusively to the practice of immigration and nationality law with offices in Philadelphia, New York, and Chicago. A former foreign student advisor at the University of Minnesota, he handles all aspects of immigration law, including assisting companies, universities, research institutions and individuals in obtaining employment- and family-based visas. He regularly advises universities on immigration policy development and compliance with F-1, J-1, H-1B and permanent residence regulations. In addition to his work for clients, he is on the executive committee of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), has been a member of the Editorial Board of Bender’s Immigration Bulletin, has authored many articles on immigration law topics, and has been an adjunct faculty member at Villanova University School of Law. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America, The Chambers Global Guide, Pennsylvania Super Lawyers, and Who’s Who of Business Lawyers.

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