About the Author
| Jay C. Ruby is the owner of
BusinessImmigrationLaw.Com, L.L.C., a business immigration law information
service incorporated in Louisiana. Mr. Ruby practices immigration
law with the Atlanta immigration group of Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak
and Stewart, PLC, a national labor and employment firm with with offices
in Atlanta, Birmingham, Charleston, Chicago, Columbia, Dallas, Greenville,
Houston, Indianapolis, Nashville, Raleigh, St. Thomas (US Virgin Islands)
and Washington DC.
Mr. Ruby earned his B.A. Degree in History and Political Science at Indiana University and his J.D. Degree from the Louisiana State University Law Center. He is admitted to practice in Louisiana and the U.S. Eastern District Court of Louisiana. Mr. Ruby is an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). He was previously the Vice-Chair of the AILA MidSouth Chapter. |
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| Mr. Ruby handles many areas
of business immigration law and has significant experience in handling
permanent and temporary employment classification cases for corporate and
institutional clients. Mr. Ruby assist clients with intracompany
transferee (L-1) and Treaty Investor/Trader visas (E-1/E-2). Mr.
Ruby has particular expertise representing employers with complex multi
beneficiary permanent and temporary (H-2B) labor certification cases with
the U.S. Department of Labor. Mr. Ruby represents corporate clients
in the hospitality, construction and other industries and successfully
assists clients with obtaining temporary H-2B visas for large and small
groups of seasonal and peakload foreign laborers. He also travels to
U.S. Consulates/Embassies in Mexico to assist clients in procuring
passport visas. |
| Prior to establishing BusinessImmigrationLaw.Com and joining Ogletree Deakins' immigration practice group, Mr. Ruby practiced immigration law with the national immigration law firm of Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy. Before relocating to Atlanta, Mr. Ruby practiced immigration law in Louisiana as a partner of Murov & Ward in New Orleans. While pursuing his legal education at LSU, Mr. Ruby spent two productive summers in France. He worked as a law clerk with the corporate legal department of Thomson Consumer Electronics (now Thomson Multimedia) in Paris in 1991 and during the summer of 1990, he studied public and private international law at the Universite' d' Aix-Marseille in Aix-en-Provence. |