Maria Frenn Kallmeyer practices in the firm’s labor and employment group and specializes in immigration law. She concentrates on employment-based immigration for temporary and permanent employees of large and small corporations. Prior to joining Quarles & Brady, Ms. Kallmeyer worked at two different national business immigration law firms in Boston. Ms. Kallmeyer’s experience includes:

• Advising employers and employees regarding nonimmigrant visa status, including H, L, TN, and E status.
  
  
• Advising employers on how to navigate the PERM labor certification application system.
  
  
• Representing multi-national managers, outstanding researchers and individuals with extraordinary ability in the arts, sciences, or business through the permanent residency process.
  
  
• Advising individuals through marriage-based permanent residency petitions, asylum applications, and naturalization applications.

• Suffolk University Law School (J.D., magna cum laude, 2008)
  International Law Certificate with distinction and participated in the Immigration Law Clinic.
  
• Boston University (B.A., cum laude, 2003)
  Studied International Relations and Hispanic Language and Literature, and received the Common Ground Award for Multicultural Awareness.
  

Illinois, 2008

American Immigration Lawyers Association, Chicago Bar Association, American Bar Association.

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