"The Right Immigration Attorney Makes All The Difference"
Valerie L. May, a Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, New York, 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. Attorney May founded May Law Group, LLC, in 2003 and it has grown to be an internationally recognized United States immigration law firm, noted for the quality of its work and dedication to finding immigration solutions for the most difficult immigration problems. Attorney May represents immigration clients throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, and the world in business immigration, family immigration, and all United States immigration areas.
Attorney May has extensive experience in employment-based immigration, including filing I-140 petitions. Alien of extraordinary ability and national interest waivers are immigration petitions that Attorney May files frequently. Many of the employment based petitions she has filed involved complex business immigration issues such as corporate mergers and acquisitions. Attorney May has filed thousands of immigration petitions and has a near perfect rate of approval for many immigration petitions.* She has represented major corporations and handled all aspects of their business immigration cases. Attorney May performs I-9 audits for corporations and has represented Fortune 500 companies, major medical centers, colleges and universities, and individuals in their immigration matters. She also represents internationally recognized athletes and sports teams. In addition, she counsels corporate clients on H-1B compliance issues and employer sanctions.
Attorney May has represented individuals and their families in all aspects of family based immigration cases. Her practice includes naturalization, visas for physicians and health-care 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. Attorney May files J waivers for clients subject to Section 212(e) of the Immigration and Nationality Act. One of her approved J waivers involved the U.S. Department of State acting as an interested government agency to approve a waiver that, with its approval, made new law.
Attorney May has traveled extensively in Asia, particularly Korea and Hong Kong, and developed many contacts in the international and United States immigration community. Many of her clients are international companies and business persons based in South America and Europe.
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. Attorney 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.
*Similar results cannot be guaranteed due to variations in the facts of each case.
Attorney Colleen E. Taylor attended Pennsylvania State University's Schreyer Honors College. She graduated with a B.A. in Advertising-Public Relations with distinction and with honors in Media Studies. She is also a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the school's Journal of Technology Law & Policy.
During law school, Attorney Taylor clerked in the chambers of the Honorable Robert E. Colville on the Superior Court of Pennsylvania. She joined May Law Group, LLC, as a law clerk while attending law school. During her time at May Law Group, she has gained extensive experience in non-immigrant and immigrant visa petitions, as well as complex naturalization applications.
Attorney Nicholas J. Botta graduated from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where he specialized in international law and received numerous honors such as the Thomas M. Cooley II Legal Writing Award, the Dean's Scholarship, and the Center for International Legal Education Fellowship. Attorney Botta graduated from the International Law Study Abroad Program in Madrid, Spain, through the College of William & Mary School of Law. Before this, he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in psychology, magna cum laude, from the University of Pittsburgh.
Attorney Botta interned with the Honorable Terrence F. McVerry in the Federal District Court of the Western District of Pennsylvania, where he researched and drafted many legal opinions on a variety of subjects. As an intern with the American Civil Liberties Union, Attorney Botta researched civil rights and First Amendment issues and drafted civil litigation complaints, new matter, briefs, memoranda, motions, and correspondence. Prior to joining the May Law Group, Attorney Botta worked at a general practice law firm in Pittsburgh.
Aside from his work at the May Law Group, Attorney Botta volunteers his international legal expertise at Building New Hope, a volunteer-driven nonprofit organization based in Pittsburgh and Granada, Nicaragua, that supports grassroots development projects in Central America. Attorney Botta's projects include legal concerns of the organic coffee industry, operating career training centers, creating alternative schools and literacy programs for underserved and at-risk youth, and the funding of income-generating projects for underprivileged women.
Attorney Mark Harley received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, magna cum laude, from Geneva College and his Juris Doctorate from the University of Akron School of Law in 2004. While in law school, Attorney Harley clerked for Justice Tawia Modibo Ocran, Supreme Court Justice of Ghana and Professor of International Law at the University of Akron. During law school, Attorney Harley focused primarily on international law.
Attorney Harley was admitted to the Bar of the State of Pennsylvania in 2004. Before joining May Law Group, Attorney Harley served as Constituent Service Representative on the staff of United States Congresswoman Melissa Hart, where he focused on matters concerning immigration and national security. In addition, Attorney Harley has considerable experience addressing complex immigration law. He worked for three years as an immigration attorney at a law firm in Pittsburgh, focusing largely on family, business, and naturalization cases.
He is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, Allegheny County Bar Association, and Beaver County Bar Association. Attorney Harley has served as Secretary for the Pittsburgh Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and as District Coordinator for the 2007 and 2008 AILA Lobby Days. He is currently Treasurer of the Pittsburgh Chapter of AILA.
Contact an Immigration Lawyer in Philadelphia or Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, New York
To speak with an immigration lawyer about your needs, please contact Valerie May online, or call 412-291-4400 | 215-880-4977 | 347-839-1700. May Law Group represents business clients and individuals throughout the United States, including Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Ohio, and worldwide in Korea, Africa, India, and Pakistan.
May Law Group, LLC
Henry W. Oliver Building | Suite 908 | 535 Smithfield Street | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222
Phones: 412-291-4400 or toll-free 1-877-LAW-USIM or cell 412-496-8930 |
Facsimile: 412-291-4401 | E-mail a US Citizenship Attorney
1500 JFK Boulevard | Two Penn Center | Suite 200 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102
Phone: 215-880-4977
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Phone: 347-839-1700
