Managing Partner Michael Wildes is delighted to announce that Wildes & Weinberg P.C. has secured an O-1 visa on behalf of his client Mr. Christian Palma, based on his outstanding success as an art director, graphic designer and animator. Christian Palma is internationally recognized for his extraordinary work, as he has worked to design, direct and animate major advertising and marketing campaigns for some of the world’s leading publications and companies, including House Beautiful Magazine, TLC, HBO, A&E, Vanity Fair, Vogue, and The Wall Street Journal, among many others. His outstanding work has been published in magazines and on television globally.
Mr. Wildes is honored to have secured O-1 Visa classification for Mr. Palma so that he may continue to work in his area of expertise in the United States.For more on Mr. Palma’s work, please see his website at 3lionsny.com.The O-1 visa classification is a non-immigrant visa classification for temporary workers, granted by the United States Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) to an individual “who possesses extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics, or who has a demonstrated record of extraordinary achievement in the motion picture or television industry and has been recognized nationally or internationally for those achievements.”
There are also accompanying visa categories available to certain individuals who provide essential support to O-1 visa holders, and derivative immigration status available to immediate family members of O-1 visa holders.
For more than 50 years, Wildes & Weinberg, P.C. has concentrated its practice in all aspects of U.S. immigration and nationality law, servicing the immigration needs of prominent American and International firms, banks, industrial, financial and manufacturing concerns and law firms in connection with the personnel needs of their foreign national employees. In addition, Wildes & Weinberg, P.C. has a distinguished clientele and has done substantial immigration work for performing artists, directors, writers, models, actors/actresses, athletes, fine artists, art dealers, curators, and literary agents, including John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Joe Cocker, Johnny Rotten, Paloma Picasso, the 2011, 2010, 2009 and 2008 Miss Universes, supermodel Giselle Bundchen, and Sarah Brightman, the world’s bestselling female classical artist of the twenty-first century.
For more information on the O-1 visa category, which allows individuals of extraordinary ability in the arts, sciences, athletics, business and education to live and work in the United States, please visit our Immigration 101 page or contact Managing Partner Michael Wildes at michael@wildeslaw.com.
