Cheng Chen

Cheng Chen serves as an Immigration Counsel, bringing over a decade of specialized legal experience to the firm. Throughout his career, Cheng has championed a client-first philosophy, expertly balancing complex regulatory frameworks with each client’s distinct professional goals. Rejecting transactional, cookie-cutter methods, he designs comprehensive, tailored strategies for a diverse global clientele.

Cheng pairs deep statutory knowledge with a practical understanding of how shifting policies impact real-world outcomes. This allows him to engineer high-level blueprints that align long-term career objectives with the most efficient pathways to legal status. Whether managing high-volume H-1B portfolios for technology corporations, relocating high level executives to U.S. for international enterprises through L-1 visa, or presenting sophisticated EB-1A Extraordinary Ability petitions for world changing academic and industry leaders, elite athletes and global award-winning artists and performers, Cheng delivers proactive, precise, and authoritative guidance through every stage of the complex U.S. immigration system. His expertise includes:

• Non-Immigrant Visas:
  • H-1B Specialty Occupation petitions and RFEs (Request for Evidence)
  • L-1A/L-1B Intracompany Transferee executive and manager transfers
  • O-1 Visas for Individuals with Extraordinary Ability in science, arts, education, and business
  • E-2 Treaty Investor visas and business plan optimization
  • TN professionals and E-3 specialty occupation for Australians
  • Responses to NOID (Notice of Intent to Deny) and complex RFE scenarios
• Permanent Residency (Green Cards):
  • EB-1A Extraordinary Ability and EB-1C Multinational Manager petitions
  • National Interest Waivers (NIW) for advanced degree professionals and entrepreneurs
  • PERM Labor Certification process and recruitment compliance
  • EB-2 and EB-3 preference category filings
  • I-485 Adjustment of Status and Consular Processing coordination
• Family Immigration:
  • I-130 Immediate Relative and Preference Category petitions
  • Marriage-based Green Cards and K-1 Fiance(e) visas
  • I-751 Removal of Conditions on residency
• Status & Naturalization:
  • Maintenance of non-immigrant status and Change of Status (COS) strategies
  • N-400 Applications for Naturalization and complex citizenship claims