A team of attorneys admitted in the United States, beside the people who decided to begin again. EB-1A, EB-2 NIW, O-1, L-1, E-1 and E-2, and family-based petitions.
Moving to another country is one of the most consequential decisions a person makes. It touches a career, a family, savings, years of a life, and in the end it rests on a petition read by an officer who will never meet you. Everything you have built has to be legible on paper. That is what we do: make the record say, with precision and evidence, who you are and what you have already accomplished.
Not everyone who offers help with immigration is allowed to represent you. Here, every petition is handled by an attorney admitted in the United States, from the first assessment through to the decision, and we are a team of lawyers devoted entirely to U.S. federal immigration. EB-1A, EB-2 NIW, O-1, L-1, E-1 and E-2, family-based petitions: each one is built as a case that has to persuade, not merely comply.
We have attorneys in Brasília, São Paulo and Miami, available for consultation in those cities by appointment. The practice is also conducted remotely, wherever you happen to be. We work in Portuguese and in English, to the same technical standard in either language.
Evidence organized against the applicable regulatory criteria.
Every petition handled by an attorney admitted in the United States.
An honest reading of your odds, before you commit.
Every category has its own criteria, its own case law, its own standard of proof. Choosing well at the outset is worth more than any amount of effort later. That is what a first conversation is for: to understand your case and tell you, candidly, which path it can sustain.
The green card through work: from the self-petition of those at the top to the job offer with labor certification.
Learn more → E-1 · E-2 · EB-5 · GOLD CARDFrom the treaty visa to the investment green card: what the passport allows and what the project sustains.
Learn more → O-1 · L-1 · H-1B · TNFour doors to work lawfully in the United States, each with its own test: record, company, degree or treaty.
Learn more → I-130 · K-1 · ADJUSTMENTPetitions for spouses, children, parents and siblings, the fiancé(e) visa and the calendar traps that split families.
Learn more → N-400 · NATURALIZATIONThe end of the cycle: continuous residence, physical presence, the English and civics tests, and the trips that restart the clock.
Learn more → RFE · NOID · APPEALSWhen USCIS pushes back: RFE and NOID responses, motions and appeals, within deadlines that do not extend. Including cases begun by others.
Learn more →On 1 October 2026 U.S. Customs and Border Protection, CBP, announced that it will cease the routine stamping of passports on entry into the United States. The admission stamp remains in use in secondary processing, in immigrant visa processing and upon the traveler's own request. CBP attributes the change to the reduction of processing times and operating costs at the border.
Read on the Radar → Employment green cardOn 29 September 2026 the Department of State released the October visa bulletin, the first of fiscal year 2027. For Brazil, the queues for EB-2, for professionals holding advanced degrees or exceptional ability, and for EB-3, for skilled professionals, moved back. The bulletin attributes the setback to the need to keep issuances within the quarterly and annual limits of the new fiscal year.
Read on the Radar → Investment green cardOn 29 September 2026 the Department of Homeland Security signed the final rule adjusting the fees of EB-5, the investment green card, and sent it to the Federal Register for publication on 30 September. The petition of the investor who applies on their own, Form I-526, goes from USD 3,675 to USD 7,615. That of the investor who applies through a regional center, Form I-526E, goes to USD 7,850 on initial filing. The request to remove the conditions on residence, Form I-829, rises from USD 3,750 to USD 5,000. The investor's contribution to the program's integrity fund goes from USD 1,000 to USD 1,100.
Read on the Radar →On September 11, 2026 the Department of Homeland Security published a proposed rule that would repeal the period of up to 60 days currently granted to those in E-1, E-2, E-3, H-1B, H-1B1, L-1, O-1 or TN status who cease the employment on which that status rests. The period has existed since January 17, 2017 and was created by the 2016 AC21 rule. The proposal is not yet in force and is open to comments until November 10, 2026.
Read → Federal programs · InformationA 1996 statute conditions federal funding for two assistance programs on the state reporting to the federal government anyone it knows to be unlawfully present. Since 1998 that duty had been read as limited to the welfare agency. On September 1, 2026 the Justice Department withdrew that reading and now holds that the duty reaches every agency of the state. This text explains where the rule comes from, what the new reading changes in practice, and what stays the same.
Read → Birthright citizenshipA federal judge in Maryland barred U.S. government agencies from applying Executive Order 14418, of August 2026, against a defined group of children born in the United States. The group includes children of a mother who was in the country on a temporary visa on the day of birth. The ruling is preliminary, reaches only those inside the group, and did not rule in the abstract on the order's categories. This text explains how the group is defined, what the ruling does and what it does not do.
Read →Since 25 August 2026, USCIS has resumed neighbourhood investigations for U.S. citizenship applicants. It applies even to those who have already filed. This guide shows what the investigator may look into, how to seek a waiver of the investigation, and what to gather before filing the N-400.
Read the guide → EB-1A · EB-2 NIWIn most employment-based green cards, you depend on a U.S. company willing to sponsor you. In these two categories, you do not: you file on your own. This guide shows which of the two fits your story, what it costs, how long it takes, and what to gather before you start.
Read the guide → Public charge · Form I-485A practical guide for anyone applying for a green card who receives, has received, or is thinking of applying for a public benefit. It gives the date that decides which rule applies to you, the list of what counts and what does not, and a checklist to use before filing.
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A lawyer and engineer admitted in New York and in Brazil, Marcelo has worked for more than twenty years at the intersection of regulation, infrastructure and complex project structuring. Much of that path was built at Brazil's Federal Court of Accounts, where he served as advisor to a Justice, head of audit and General Counsel, scrutinizing privatizations and concessions and defending the Court's institutional powers before the Supreme Federal Court. At the Presidency of the Republic he led the Transport Coordination of the Investment Partnerships Program, steering port, highway and railway projects of national reach. He holds an LL.M. from Harvard Law School and is a doctoral candidate in constitutional law.
That background shapes how he practises immigration. An EB-1A or EB-2 NIW petition is a case built on documented evidence and structural argument, the same discipline he brought to constitutional and regulatory work. Every petition is assembled the same way: evidence organised against the applicable regulatory criteria, and the argument written by the lawyer who handles the case.
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