Cheng Chen - San Jose, CA

Cheng Chen serves as an Immigration Counsel, bringing over a decade of specialized legal experience to the firm. Throughout his career, Cheng has championed a client-first philosophy, expertly balancing complex regulatory frameworks with each client’s distinct professional goals. Rejecting transactional, cookie-cutter methods, he designs comprehensive, tailored strategies for a diverse global clientele.

Cheng pairs deep statutory knowledge with a practical understanding of how shifting policies impact real-world outcomes. This allows him to engineer high-level blueprints that align long-term career objectives with the most efficient pathways to legal status. Whether managing high-volume H-1B portfolios for technology corporations, relocating high level executives to U.S. for international enterprises through L-1 visa, or presenting sophisticated EB-1A Extraordinary Ability petitions for world changing academic and industry leaders, elite athletes and global award-winning artists and performers, Cheng delivers proactive, precise, and authoritative guidance through every stage of the complex U.S. immigration system. His expertise includes:

Non-Immigrant Visas:

• H-1B Specialty Occupation petitions and RFEs (Request for Evidence)
• L-1A/L-1B Intracompany Transferee executive and manager transfers
• O-1 Visas for Individuals with Extraordinary Ability in science, arts, education, and business
• E-2 Treaty Investor visas and business plan optimization
• TN professionals and E-3 specialty occupation for Australians
• Responses to NOID (Notice of Intent to Deny) and complex RFE scenarios

Permanent Residency (Green Cards):

• EB-1A Extraordinary Ability and EB-1C Multinational Manager petitions
• National Interest Waivers (NIW) for advanced degree professionals and entrepreneurs
• PERM Labor Certification process and recruitment compliance
• EB-2 and EB-3 preference category filings
• I-485 Adjustment of Status and Consular Processing coordination

Family Immigration:

• I-130 Immediate Relative and Preference Category petitions
• Marriage-based Green Cards and K-1 Fiancé(e) visas
• I-751 Removal of Conditions on residency
• Status & Naturalization:
• Maintenance of non-immigrant status and Change of Status (COS) strategies
• N-400 Applications for Naturalization and complex citizenship claims