Kelly M. Fortier

Experience

Clients highly value Kelly Fortier for simplifying and streamlining the process of hiring foreign nationals, making it easier and more predictable. From Fortune 500 companies to start-ups, Kelly helps employers meet their staffing needs by handling the immigration issues they face in hiring foreign nationals and moving employees around the globe.

Kelly provides responsive and seamless service, coordinating, and managing the extensive immigration work for her clients’ Human Resources and legal staff, often using strategies like Blanket L petition filings, E-2 investor visas, and B-1 business visitor guidance to smooth the immigration process. She also handles a wide range of permanent residence filings (PERM, NIW, EB-1) for long-term foreign national employment.

Her work within the healthcare industry, especially with physician immigration filings, is unique. She has developed creative strategies for healthcare clients, including concurrent cap-exempt H-1B employment, to allow cap-subject physician groups to hire new H-1B employees.

Kelly handles cases previously denied by the government or mishandled by prior counsel. These “triage” cases require expedited handling and aggressive approaches to obtain approvals. By staying abreast of agency trends and formulating creative strategies, she has turned many cases around, allowing foreign national employees to remain in the United States.