Alan Perkins
USA Guide 2024
Band 1 : Immigration
Band 1
About
Provided by Alan Perkins
Practice Areas
Business Immigration
Career
Alan is Chair of Tonkon Torp’s Business Immigration Practice Group and focuses his practice on employment-based immigration and counseling on employment law matters relating to foreign nationals. He represents clients before the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services and U.S. Customs and Border Protection, as well as the U.S. Department of State and U.S. Department of Labor.
Alan’s practice focuses on assisting large and small companies with the hiring and retention of foreign national employees. This primarily includes filing petitions with the government, both for temporary and permanent resident status, for executive, managerial, and specialized knowledge transferees of multinational corporations, professionals, individuals of extraordinary ability, and outstanding researchers.
He also advises clients on continuing employment issues involving foreign nationals in the United States, mergers and acquisitions involving foreign national employees, recruiting, reductions in force, and Form I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification and E-Verify.
Prior to joining Tonkon Torp in 2007, Alan practiced immigration law for several years in San Francisco with large national firms.
Languages Spoken
English
Spanish
Professional Memberships
American Immigration Lawyers Association
Multnomah Bar Association
Portland Human Resource Management Association
Expert in these Jurisdictions
Oregon State Bar
Education
Vanderbilt University Law School
J.D.
1997
Willamette University
B.A., summa cum laude,
1993
Awards
2018-2025, Immigration Law
The Best Lawyers in America
2010, Oregon Rising Star – Immigration
Super Lawyers
Chambers Review
USA
Alan Perkins provides expertise in a wide scope of business immigration matters, including intracompany transfers, extraordinary ability petitions, temporary work visas and permanent residency applications.