Gabrielle M. Buckley
Shareholder
T: +1 (312) 609 7626
F: +1 (312) 609 5005
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Gabrielle M. Buckley is a Shareholder in the firm’s Corporate practice area. Ms. Buckley has over 25 years of experience counseling companies around the world with regard to all aspects of employment-related immigration laws. She advises employers as to immigration law issues arising in corporate mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and other forms of corporate reorganization. Ms. Buckley assists clients in obtaining temporary and permanent immigration status in virtually every immigration category for both inbound and outbound employees. She develops immigration compliance policies for employers and conducts internal immigration/I-9 audits and training for employers. Ms. Buckley also represents international direct investors in selecting appropriate investment vehicles and obtaining investor visas.
Ms. Buckley is Vice Chair of the American Bar Association's Section of International Law, and is a member of its Council and Executive Committee. Ms. Buckley is a past chair of the International Bar Association’s Immigration and Nationality Law Committee. She serves on the American Bar Association’s 13-member Commission on Immigration and is former cochair of the Immigration & Naturalization Committee of the American Bar Association’s Section of International Law.
Ms. Buckley is an Adjunct Professor of Law at The John Marshall Law School and serves on the Leadership Council of the National Immigrant Justice Center. She is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and the Society of Human Resource Professionals, and is a frequent speaker on immigration-related topics. She also serves on the board of directors of the US-India Chamber of Commerce (Midwest), RefugeeONE and WorldChicago.
In 2011, Ms. Buckley was ranked in Chambers Global in the United States of America Immigration: Business category. Ms. Buckley received an "AV Preeminent" Peer Rating in Martindale-Hubbell. Ms. Buckley was selected for inclusion from 2009 to 2012 in Illinois Super Lawyers. She has been admitted to the Leading Lawyers Network. She is also listed in the International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers, Who’s Who in American Law, International Who’s Who of Corporate Immigration Lawyers and Who’s Who Legal: Illinois.
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- Advises multinational corporations, US employers and foreign nationals with regard to corporate immigration laws and related matters.
- Advises international investors as to appropriate investment vehicles for immigration purposes, including selection of corporate form, international personnel matters and related tax issues.
- Oversees preparation of applications and petitions for appropriate non-immigrant and immigrant status to be filed with the Department of Homeland Security and the US Department of State, particularly for business-related visa categories (including the B, E, H, I, J, L, O, P, and TN categories), national interest waiver petitions, labor certification applications and applications for naturalization.
- Advises companies on immigration law issues in corporate mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and other forms of corporate reorganization.
- Conducts I-9 audits and advises clients with regard to compliance and discrimination issues.
- Provides general advice regarding a wide variety of immigration-related matters, including citizenship, consular processing, and effects of criminal acts.
- Designs and prepares client seminars on immigration-related topics.
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- J.D., DePaul University College of Law, 1981
- B.A., Mundelein College (now Loyola University), 1978
- Konan University, Kobe, Japan, 1976-1977
- Illinois, 1981
- US Court of International Trade, 2006
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