Immigration Lawyer
Taymoor Pilehvar is a lawyer who prioritizes the client and prepares cases with attention to detail. He can help in all areas of immigration law, such as:
● Family/marriage based petitions.
● EB-1/O-1 talent visas.
● EB-2/EB-3/PERM employment based green card process.
● E-1/E-2/EB-5 for investors.
● L-1 for multinational companies.
● TN for Canadians/Mexicans.
● H-1B for specialized workers.
● E-3 for Australians.
● H-3/J-1 for trainees/interns.
● H-2A/H-2B for seasonal employment.
● P-1 for athletes and entertainment teams.
● P-3 for dancers and culturally unique performers.
● Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) petitions.
● ICE bond requests.
● Removal defense.
● Cancellation of removal.
● Crimmigration, aka immigration informed criminal defense issues.
● RFE / NOID responses.
● Appeal / reopen cases.
● Mandamus litigation for delay.
● Naturalization / citizenship.
● Yacht industry specific immigration consulting.
● Federal court litigation for unfair decisions.
● Waivers of inadmissibility / removability.
● Immigration FOIA requests.
● ICE enforcement issues.
● Corporate I-9 audits.
Employment Lawyer
In addition to his immigration practice, Taymoor Pilehvar also helps clients with employment issues such as underpayment or nonpayment of wages. These types of issues are handled in federal courts under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The law is intended to prevent bosses from taking advantage of workers. If you think your boss is treating your paycheck unfairly, I can help recover those wages plus more.
Academic Author, Activist, and Public Speaker
Taymoor Pilehvar is on the National Board of Publications for the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). He was published in AILA’s inaugural Law Journal for his article entitled “How Much Blood to Cross the Northern Border? Reconsidering the Blood Quantum Requirement of INA § 289.” Taymoor is an alumnus advisor to the OU College of Law Center for International Business and Human Rights, which is a think tank organization that focuses its scholarship, legal engagement, events, and courses on human rights issues connected to the energy and extractive sectors and Internet and Communication Technology (ICT) companies. In its legal engagement, the Center provides academic think tank support to multi-stakeholder initiatives in these fields.
Taymoor Pilehvar wrote a chapter in the textbook “Nuclear Non-Proliferation in International Law (Volume IV)“ Black-Branch, Jonathan L., Fleck, Dieter (Eds.). His chapter is entitled “If the Government Errs, Corporate Losses are Their Own to Bear: Corporate Best Practices for Indigenous Engagement in the Uranium Industry.” He served as a panelist at two conferences on nuclear non-proliferation hosted by the University of Manitoba. One was entitled “Human Dimensions and Perspectives in a Nuclear World” and the other “Regional Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament: Controls, Defence and Diplomacy.”
Taymoor Pilehvar has spoken at multiple conferences from the American Immigration Lawyer Association as well as the Sports Immigration Law Conference. He also taught an immigration law overview course at a legal education seminar for the Oklahoma Bar Association as well as a presentation on skilled employment options for large companies at a regional conference for SHRM, the Society for Human Resource Management.
