Gizie D. Hirsh

Gizie Hirsh practices in all areas of business-related immigration law. She assists such national and local employers as architectural firms, educational institutions, manufacturers, entertainment firms, financial service firms and health care providers with immigrant and non-immigrant matters. She focuses her practice on representing employers before United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, the Department of Labor, and the Department of State on a wide variety of immigration matters. Gizie’s experience includes the following:

• securing approvals for employers who wish to hire foreign nationals in various nonimmigrant categories, including H-1B (Specialty Workers), L-1 (Intra-company Transferees), TN (NAFTA Treaty Workers), O-1 (Individuals with Extraordinary Ability or Achievement), and R-1 (Religious Workers).
• obtaining J-1 waivers for foreign physicians.
• obtaining labor certifications from the Department of Labor for employers pursuing permanent resident status for their foreign national workers.
• obtaining immigrant petition approvals in the EB-1, EB-2, EB-3 and EB-4 categories.
• assisting foreign nationals to obtain permanent resident status.
• advising clients on I-9 compliance and E-Verify issues.

Gizie’s experience during and prior to law school included three years as a law-clerk and paralegal at a boutique immigration firm in Atlanta, where she handled various business- and family-based immigration matters.

• Presenter, Immigration Update: I-9 Compliance and Foreign National Issues, Lathrop GPM 2022 Employment & Labor Law Seminar, April 12, 2022 (Kansas City); May 4, 2022 (Minneapolis)
• Presenter, Immigration Q&A Walk-In Room, Lathrop GPM 2022 Employment & Labor Law Seminar, April 12, 2022 (Kansas City); May 4, 2022 (Minneapolis)
• Presenter, Immigration Compliance, Associated Industries of Missouri (AIM), August 25, 2010

• Cutting Immigration Programs is No Solution, Missouri Lawyers Weekly, June 26, 2009 

• Leadership Council on Legal Diversity, Fellows Program, 2019
• American Immigration Lawyers Association
• The Missouri Bar
• American Bar Association, Labor & Employment Section