Anton F Mertens

Practice Areas

Anton is of counsel in the Immigration & Global Mobility practice and a member of the Global Commerce industry team. With over 30 years of experience, he assists corporations and individuals from around the world to craft immigration solutions.

Anton has experience representing international clients in a variety of immigration matters, including business visas and immigration options for large and small corporate clients, investor visas, and green card applications for a variety of executives, managers, and key employees. Anton also obtains fiancé visas, and permanent resident status for spouses, children, parents, and siblings, and he files removal of conditions on residence petitions, applications for renewal of green cards, and naturalizations.

Professional Memberships

President, Mercer University National Alumni Association Board of Directors, 2019-present

Belgium advisor for Economic Diplomacy in the State of Georgia, 2015-present

Member, Georgia-Alabama Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association

Member, State Bar of Georgia, Immigration Law Section and International Law Section

Member, Lawyer’s Club of Atlanta

Founding member, Atlanta United Football Club

Board of directors, former president of the Mercer University Law School Alumni Association

Former president of the Belgian-American Chamber of the South

Former chair of the Brussels, Belgium Sister City Committee and former chair of the Atlanta Sister Commission Foundation

Former co-chair of the Global Commerce Council of the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce

Volunteer, Habitat for Humanity

Personal

Born and raised in Brussels, Belgium, Anton first came to America as a high school exchange student. He fell in love with America and became a U.S. citizen in 1994. He is passionate about helping others immigrate to America.