
Nina Panugaling
Assistant Paralegal
Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP
Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP
Assistant Paralegal
Facilitates immigration legal services.
While there are different visa types in business immigration, my team is primarily focused on NIVs (non-immigrant visas). So most of my workload involves preparing petitions to extend statuses of H-1B and H-4 visa holders; however, I occasionally prepare petitions for F-1 visas. Throughout the day, I answer questions from our client's foreign national employees, which may vary from status updates of their pending petitions to questions about international travel, based on firm polices.
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