Loren Locke represents employers and employees in business immigration matters. She works directly with both individual foreign nationals and employers in pursuit of a wide variety of nonimmigrant visas and to achieve lawful permanent residence in the United States.

Loren advises on consular practice, with special expertise in E-2, E-3, H-1B1 and L-1 visas. She guides corporate clients through the full cycle of the labor certification-based green card process, including developing case strategy, preparing for and responding to audits, and requesting reconsideration in case of denial.

Loren develops enterprise-level corporate immigration strategy for companies in growth mode that seek to hire foreign workers directly from abroad to fill recurring hiring needs. This strategy has application across multiple industries, such as aviation (airline pilots), healthcare (registered nurses, physical therapists, and home health aides), and professional services (management consulting).

Loren represents individual immigrants, focusing in particular on O-1 nonimmigrant petitions for individuals of extraordinary ability and National Interest Waiver I-140 petitions for individuals of exceptional ability, as well as EB-1 immigrant petitions for individuals of extraordinary ability, outstanding researchers, and multinational executives and managers. Loren pursues creative nonimmigrant and immigrant solutions for H-1B workers mired in the Visa Bulletin backlog and consults on emergency options for laid off H-1B workers.

Prior to founding Locke Immigration Law, Loren was a partner in the business immigration practice of a national labor and employment law firm. Prior to that, she practiced in an international full service law firm with a high-volume immigration practice. And before that, she worked as a Foreign Service Officer for the U.S. Department of State. She served for two years as a consular officer in the U.S. Consulate General in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico. There, she adjudicated some 12,000 nonimmigrant visas of all types for Mexicans and third-country nationals, as well as dozens of U.S. citizenship claims. While still a law student, Loren worked as a judicial clerk for Judge Raymond W. Gruender of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, and as a legal intern for the National Immigrant Justice Center in Chicago. She also worked as a legislative intern for U.S. Senator Christopher Bond.

Loren is fluent in Spanish and French.

Education

William & Mary Law School
Juris Doctor, 2008

University of Richmond
B.A., summa cum laude, 2005
Phi Beta Kappa

Contact

Email: loren@lockeimmigration.com

Direct: 404-490-1244