• Global immigration and visa services
• Complete immigration outsourcing
• Due diligence in mergers and acquisitions
• Multidisciplinary approach

GLOBAL IMMIGRATION AND VISA SERVICES
In today’s globalization era, enterprises face numerous challenges in terms of personnel availability. Immigration or emigration is often the answer to these new challenges. At BCF we assist our clients and help them secure their employees’ right to work in other countries by obtaining temporary or permanent status abroad for those employees. We prepare and file appropriate petitions and applications for all work permits, visas and permanent residence matters, supported when required by a network of worldwide correspondents. We offer comprehensive global immigration strategies while offering creative and proactive solutions to international mobility concerns.

Being at the center of our clients’ global immigration strategies, we are in a position to minimize the costs and delays normally associated with opening files and forwarding the same documents to numerous firms when different service providers are utilized for every country of destination and/or origin. Thus, our global services enable us to offer a broad picture completely in line with our clients’ general strategy and international policy.

COMPLETE IMMIGRATION OUTSOURCING
The BCF business immigration team offers complete immigration outsourcing services. We take charge of all processes surrounding the mobility and relocation of personnel, leaving our clients to exercise and excel in their primary fields of expertise, free of immigration concerns. Our outsourcing services give access to sharp expertise and know-how in all immigration matters, constant updates on changes to laws and regulations, as well as international assistance 24/7. We develop and implement global strategies and processes to ensure full compliance with laws and regulations, and we offer complete policy management. We have also developed customized online access portals that provide our clients access to all relevant information including automated case tracking and reporting. Our outsourcing services also entail briefings and on-site client training as required.

DUE DILIGENCE IN MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS
The firm offers end-to-end consulting services whenever clients are contemplating changes in their corporate structure, whether through the creation of affiliates or through mergers, acquisitions or reverse takeovers. Whenever a transaction involves a company whose workforce includes foreign nationals, numerous considerations must be addressed. Failure to perform appropriate due diligence may render employees unable to work legally following the transaction and may also result in serious violations of laws and regulations, putting employers at risk of various civil and criminal sanctions. In addition to maintaining valid authorization to work, employers must be made aware of other compliance issues including specific retention of official documents, anti-discrimination provisions, document fraud or misuse, and successor liability for predecessor non-compliance, and they must also be prepared for any official audit.

The BCF business immigration team stresses the importance of due diligence related to non-immigrant and immigrant employee status. In many transactions, the workforce is a sought-after asset; conducting a thorough investigation will verify if such personnel will still be eligible to work after the transaction and will determine all areas of responsibility attached to such a successor situation.

MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH
BCF is a leading provider of immigration services and solutions that address all business and human aspects of international mobility. We are constantly adapting our services to our clientele’s evolving needs and we benefit from a multidisciplinary approach that enables us to offer strategic legal consulting encompassing many areas of expertise, including:

• banking law and financing
• business and corporate law
• civil and commercial litigation
• cross-border transactions
• dispute resolution
• domestic and international tax law
• intellectual property
• mergers & acquisitions

A glance at our many areas of practice illustrates the scope of our expertise. But it is the way in which our experts work in synergy toward our clients’ goals that marks the true essence of our ability to efficiently and effectively manage complex and often sensitive matters of local and international scope entrusted to us.

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