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

Awards

Expert in these Jurisdictions

Oregon State Bar

Education