MERRILL R. COHEN is one of New York's new breed of savvy immigration lawyers. New York Law Journal Magazine.

Super Lawyers Distinction 2016, 2015, 2014, and 2013 - Merrill Cohen

About Us

Merrill R. Cohen & Associates was founded in1994 to provide comprehensive legal advice and service on a wide variety of immigration matters.

We regularly receive Approvals for EB-1A and EB-2 NIW green card petitions for cases that other firms have turned away - or can't get approved.

Our attorneys work as a team to strategize and provide creative, novel solutions to complex immigration issues. Our pro-active approach means that we continually revise our work as we progress towards filing, to ensure that the final project is articulate, clearly-presented, well-documented and persuasive.

We also regularly file PERM cases for large and small businesses, sports clubs, research hospitals, museums and other organizations. We also regularly obtain work visas for professionals in business, the arts, athletics and the sciences, in the H-1B, L, E, O, P, R and TN visa categories.

A few of our more unusual cases include:

Entrepreneur who tracks oysters from farm-to-table visa blockchain - EB-2NIW green card despite only signing-up three small oyster farms in the Northeast.
Electron Microscopy Specialist - EB-2 National Interest green card despite the fact that he does not have a Bachelor's degree.
Classical Music Whistler - EB-1A green card as someone at the top of his field - despite immigration's questioning whether "classical music whistling" is even a "field".
Colored Pencil Artist - EB-1A green card - despite not selling a single painting.
Avant-garde Actor - EB-1A green card despite only acting in an ensemble in an Off- Off- Broadway play.
Other examples abound.

In addition to employment-based petitions, we also regularly file family-based petitions, and asylum as well as naturalization applications. We assist clients to obtain visas and green cards at U.S. Embassies and Consulates around the world, and represent clients before the Immigration Court, the Board of Immigration Appeals, the U.S. Dept. of Labor and Administrative Appeals Unit.

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