Mobility Matters

Tina has been with the Ogletree Deakins' immigration practice group since February 2010. She represents high-volume, multinational employers with all aspects of U.S. business immigration including nonimmigrant, immigrant, and compliance-related matters. She assists employers with developing comprehensive immigration policies and practices to ensure they remain competitive in the industry. She has extensive experience structuring, implementing, and overseeing high-volume PERM programs with a focus on compliance. She has managed O-1 and EB-1 petitions for high-profile financial services, technology, and business professionals and complex Requests for Evidence/Audits from various government agencies. She regularly advises employers on the immigration aspects of RIFs, M&A, and Divestitures including aligning immigration programs and policies after acquisition.

Tina regularly provides trainings and presentations to in-house counsel, HR, recruiters, global mobility specialists, and foreign national employees across a broad spectrum of immigration topics.

Philip serves an of counsel attorney based out of Ogletree Deakins’ Washington, D.C. office. As a member of the firm’s Immigration practice group, Philip guides corporate clients in navigating the issues, strategies, and procedures involved with employment-based visa sponsorship, including nonimmigrant (temporary stay) visas and the permanent residence (green card) process.

Prior to joining Ogletree Deakins in July 2021, Philip exclusively practiced immigration law with a large international business immigration law firm. He has assisted multinational clients of all sizes in nonimmigrant matters, including H-1B, E-3, L-1, TN, and O-1 visa classifications, as well as the permanent residence process involving PERM labor certification, I-140 petitions in the EB-2 and EB-3 categories, and EB-1 categories for multinational managers, outstanding researchers, and individuals of extraordinary ability. Philip has experience with clients in a variety of industries, including information technology, consulting and professional services, energy, consumer goods, luxury goods, fragrances, food and flavor development, and pharmaceutical research and development.

As a law student and attorney, Philip has enjoyed providing volunteer and pro bono immigration services to Tahirih Justice Center, American Friends Service Committee, and asylum-seeking families detained at ICE’s Berks County Family Residential Center. Philip received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Washington University in St. Louis and his Juris Doctor degree from the American University Washington College of Law, where he served as Associate Symposium Editor on the American University Law Review, Executive Editor on the American University National Security Law Brief, and as a member of the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association.