BAL is a team dedicated to exceptional immigration work and collaborative innovation. The Immigration Paralegal I will coordinate with Attorneys in preparing, filing, and monitoring various immigration and nationality law matters, while also providing client support and managing case documentation.
Responsibilities
- Under direction of Senior Paralegal/Attorney, takes lead in email/phone client communications
- Provides guidance to assignees regarding proprietary systems and case processing
- Increased understanding of client communication procedures and requirements
- Inputs client services rendered and sends to Accounting for processing
- Complete competence of case types previously handled and continually strives to advance and broaden knowledge base; demonstrates increasing levels of independence in case handling
- Processes more advanced and varied corporate immigration cases
- Evaluates cases, relays concerns, and proactively escalates to the appropriate BAL team members(s)
- Prepares forms, letters, documents and correspondence for attorney review; adapts tools and resources for casework which deviates from templates; increases knowledge of BAL best practices
- Manages status of all filed applications and petitions and finalizes documents after attorney review
- Utilizes document and data management systems to prepare, monitor, and record all aspects of client casework as per BAL policy
- Prepares internal caseload reports for management
- Shares process flow with assignees; Identifies problematic cases and discusses strategies and/or solutions with Attorney
- Performs research to obtain information such as background on a company or industry, current wages, processing procedures, standard processing times, etc
- Initiates contact with government agencies to obtain necessary information; alerts Senior Paralegal and/or attorney regarding potential process delays/problems
Skills
- Comfortable and ability to thrive in an extremely high volume environment
- Demonstrates sound judgement
- Ability to execute and work well with minimal supervision
- Strong attention to detail and ability to catch errors and correct work and the work of others
- Superior client service skills
- Effectively able to prioritize cases, caseload and other assigned tasks (i.e. projects, company management responsibilities, etc.)
- Ability to meet deadline and goals
- MS Office, Scan/Copy; learn, apply and effectively navigate daily use of propriety software
- Typically at least 1+ year(s) U.S. corporate immigration experience
- Bachelor's Degree; 1-year law-related experience under licensed attorney; or, PL certificate from ABA approved program
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Disability
- Life insurance
- Sick time
- Unlimited vacation
- 401(k) with company match
Company Overview
BAL is a corporate immigration law firm that delivers consulting services for organizations. It was founded in 1980, and is headquartered in Richardson, Texas, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://www.bal.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
BAL has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 6 in 2025, 10 in 2024, 6 in 2023, 2 in 2022, 3 in 2021, 2 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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