May Law Group
Henry W. Oliver Building | Suite 908 | 535 Smithfield Street | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222
Phone: 412.291.4400 | Facsimile: 412.291.4401 | E-mail
1500 JFK Boulevard | Two Penn Center, Suite 200 | Philadelphia, PA 19102
Phone: 215.880.4977 | E-mail
Valerie L. May, a Pittsburgh, PA immigration lawyer, graduated from both Chatham College and the University of Pittsburgh School of Law with honors. She was a member of the University of Pittsburgh Law Review and interned for the United States Third Circuit Court of Appeals. For several 
years, Ms. May practiced with an internationally recognized United States immigration law firm. She served on the firm’s management committee and was in charge of the firm’s family-based immigration practice, waivers, employment based permanent residence cases, and asylum applications. Ms. May practices immigration law throughout the United States.
Ms. May has extensive experience in employment-based immigration, including filing I-140 petitions. Many of the employment based petitions she has filed involved complex business immigration issues such as corporate mergers and acquisitions. Ms. May has successfully filed numerous labor substitution cases, including a 100% success rate in filing I-140 petitions.* She has represented major corporations and handled all aspects of their business immigration cases. Ms. May recently headed an I-9 audit team for a multinational corporation. In addition, she counsels corporate clients on H-1B compliance issues and employer sanctions.
Ms. May has represented individuals and their families in all aspects of family based immigration cases. Her practice includes naturalization, visas for physicians and healthcare workers, as well as alien of extraordinary ability, outstanding professor and researcher, and multinational executive and manager petitions filed in the EB-1 category. She also files national interest waivers for physicians and those individuals whose work benefits the United States as a whole.
Ms. May has traveled extensively in Asia, particularly Korea and Hong Kong, and developed many contacts in the international and United States immigration community.
She has served on the boards of numerous charities and civic organizations including the American Cancer Society, Make-A-Wish Foundation, Pittsburgh Ballet Theater and Family House. Ms. May is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and the Allegheny County Bar Association Immigration Lawyers Committee. She is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, the United States Federal Court for the Western District Court of Pennsylvania, and the United States Third Circuit Court of Appeals.
Valerie L. May
*Similar results cannot be guaranteed due to variations in the facts of each case.
Contact an Immigration Lawyer
To speak with an immigration lawyer about your needs, please contact Valerie May online, or call 412-291-4400. May Law Group represents business clients and individuals throughout the United States, including Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Western Pennsylvania, Eastern Ohio, Allegheny County, and worldwide in Korea, Africa, India, and Pakistan.
