Overview
A New York-based law firm specializing in business immigration is seeking a Senior Business Immigration Paralegal to join their legal team. This role focuses on the final review and quality control of business immigration filings prior to submission. The ideal candidate will have extensive hands-on experience with employment-based immigration matters, exceptional organizational skills, and a keen eye for detail to identify inconsistencies, missing information, formatting issues, and other critical errors.
Responsibilities
- Conduct final pre-filing reviews of business immigration petitions and application packages to ensure accuracy, completeness, consistency, and proper presentation.
- Review USCIS and related government forms to verify correct entries, internal consistency, and alignment with supporting evidence.
- Confirm that exhibits are complete, properly labeled, correctly ordered, and appropriately cross-referenced within filing packages.
- Identify clerical, factual, formatting, and documentary issues such as missing signatures, incorrect dates, inconsistent responses, duplicate documents, and exhibit gaps before filing.
- Ensure each filing package complies with firm standards, case-specific instructions, and applicable filing requirements.
- Perform quality control reviews of cover letters, support letters, forms, and supporting documentation for grammar, formatting, and overall coherence.
- Organize final packages for efficient attorney review and submission.
- Communicate review comments clearly and efficiently to paralegals, case preparers, and attorneys, and follow up to confirm corrections.
- Flag legal or strategic issues to supervising attorneys when matters exceed quality control or require substantive review.
- Support continuous improvement of internal quality control procedures, checklists, templates, and filing standards.
Qualifications
- 8 to 10 years of recent, full-time experience as a paralegal specializing in U.S. business immigration.
- Strong hands-on familiarity with employment-based immigrant and nonimmigrant filings, supporting evidence, and final package assembly.
- Exceptional attention to detail with the ability to detect small inconsistencies and errors across forms, source documents, and exhibits.
- Proven experience reviewing final filings for accuracy, completeness, and compliance prior to submission.
- Excellent written English skills, including strong proofreading, grammar, and formatting abilities.
- Ability to work efficiently in a high-volume environment while maintaining precision and meeting deadlines.
- Sound judgment to distinguish routine filing issues from those requiring escalation to an attorney.
- Strong organizational skills and proficiency with case management systems, document platforms, and remote collaboration tools.
- Ability to work independently within a structured review process and collaborate effectively with attorneys and case teams.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience reviewing complex business immigration matters and handling high-document-volume filing packages.
- Prior experience in a final review, audit, or quality control role within an immigration practice.
- Proficiency in Turkish is a plus.
Compensation & Benefits
Details regarding compensation and benefits were not provided.
Location
This position is based in New York.