DBL Business & Immigration Law’s Practice Areas
BUSINESS & REAL ESTATE LAW
30 Years of Experience
We’ve been practicing business and commercial real estate for years, with countless successful cases to our name. We assist our clients in providing legal
services related to the complexities of business or real estate acquisitions and sales including preparation and review of contracts and other legal documents and can provide timely advice to save our clients time, energy and unnecessary aggravation. Our clients can count on our team to manage the legal framework to complete their transactions with minimal complications and as economically as possible. When our lawyers are involved in a case, we help our clients successfully resolve matters as quickly and efficiently as possible and try to prevent small matters from becoming gigantic monsters. Our clients can feel comfort in knowing that they have competent attorneys on their side.
IMMIGRATION LAW
Proven Success
Do you have a complex immigration matter or a simple question to ask about your immigration case? We are ready to help. DBL Business & Immigration Law has experienced and knowledgeable attorneys ready to advise our clients on Immigration matters including family, employment and other basis for obtaining permanent resident status (green cards) in the United States. We can help individuals obtain immigration benefits so that families can stay together and can help employers hire and retain key employees.
We can also assist individuals and companies in obtaining non-immigrant visas. We have experienced attorneys who can provide assistance in obtaining student visas (F and M visas), Treaty trader and Treaty Investor (E-1 and E-2 visas), Inter-company Transferee and Temporary Workers (H and L visas) and Religious workers (R visas) and other non-immigrant visas. We can provide services across the country with respect to the US Immigration Law. We are proud to extend our legal knowledge and skill to help serve clients of all types and sizes.
LEGAL REPRESENTATION
Justice for You
Let DBL Business & Immigration Law be the solution for your Legal Representation needs as a business owner or representative. We can provide guidance and direction through a complex maze of laws, regulations and local ordinances and save you from taking the costly and imprudent course of action. By combining a fundamental understanding of the big picture with the complexity of daily interactions and the legal framework in our society, our lawyers provide proactive solutions to a diverse set of problems and issues. Our partners and associates are involved in some of the most innovative, sophisticated, and complex Legal Representation cases.
OUR FIRM’S VALUE
Why We Practice Immigration Law and Business Law
I practice immigration law because I am an immigrant. I am just like the DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) kids. I empathize with them since I was brought over by my parents when I was nine years old while my father was a struggling foreign student. My younger brother, sister and I had no choice, no input, and no concept of leaving Korea, where we were born. We did not speak a word of English at the time. We ended up in a school in a very poor neighborhood in Chicago (now gentrified) and attended Mulligan Elementary school, where most of the students were African-American. When President Obama enacted the DACA program, it was a god-sent gift. My heart goes out for all the DACA applicants who have felt marginalized simply because of lack of immigration status. My heart goes out especially for those “kids” who don’t qualify because they arrived after a certain age in life or after an arbitrary cutoff time. A piece of me is in every DACA application that I file.
I don’t know how we obtained our PR status but somehow we obtained it through my father’s employment. During high school, I became a US Citizen by naturalizing. In those days, one had to have two US Citizen witnesses who could attest to one’s moral character. I dragged couple of my friends to INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service) for my citizenship interview. To this date, I thank these friends who missed school to help me obtain my US Citizenship. To be a US Citizen is both an honor and a responsibility that many native born US Citizens do not appreciate. Thus, I encourage all my permanent resident clients to apply for US Citizenship as soon as they are eligible and to be responsible contributing members of this society while being faithful to their heritage.
I also practice business law because many immigrants have difficulty in securing employment because of lack of English skills or immigration status. Therefore, they decide that the best method for providing for their families is in starting small businesses such as driving taxis, operating delis, cleaners, or convenience stores. I have helped many of these small businesses grow into medium-sized businesses and assisted them in times of struggle with contracts, leases, financial and regulatory issues. That is one of the reasons why I became a founding member and a director of a community bank, Unibank, that focuses on helping minority-owned small business owners. I can sympathize and relate to small business owners since I am a business owner/entrepreneur myself. I help small business owners with legal advice and with business advice and am thrilled when I see their businesses grow and prosper. I can also assist with such business owners in transferring the wealth to their descendants to take the business to the next level.