Managing Partner Michael Wildes and Associate Attorney Josh Wildes led a workshop on “Life After F-1: A Guide for International Students” at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. The presentation offered general information on U.S. immigration law with an emphasis on OPT/CPT, H1B, navigating visa application questions, and other tips and restrictions to provide the students with the guidance they need for a successful transition into the work force.
In addition to serving as the firm’s Managing Partner, Michael Wildes also serves as Counsel to Lincoln Center, and several international/corporate law firms. A former Federal Prosecutor with the United States Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn (1989-1993), he has testified on Capitol Hill in connection with anti-terrorism legislation and is internationally renowned for his successful representation of distinguished individuals and corporate clients. Having represented the United States government in immigration proceedings, Michael Wildes is a frequent participant on professional panels and commentator on network television and radio regarding corporate immigration law, employer sanction work and compliance. Michael represents many performing artists, directors, writers, models, actors/actresses, athletes, race car drivers, fine artists, art dealers, curators, and literary agents. Some of his recent clients include famed artist Sarah Brightman, many of the former Miss Universes’ as well as soccer icon Pele; master Chef Jean-Georges and other talented artists. Mr. Wildes, who is currently serving his fourth term as Mayor of Englewood, New Jersey, has also served on the New Jersey Governor’s Blue-Ribbon Panel on Immigration. Michael is also an Adjunct Law Professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City.
Josh Wildes has extensive experience with immigration law. He served as a Legal Intern for the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Office of Chief Counsel, as well as for the Department of Justice’s U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York (Civil Division). Josh also worked as an Attorney Advisor in the Department of Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review at the Miami Immigration Court, where he was originally hired as a Judicial Law Clerk through the Attorney General’s Honors Program. Josh is admitted to practice law in the States of New York, New Jersey, and Florida, as well as immigration courts around the country, and is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA).
More than sixty-four years since its inception, the firm continues to serve a distinguished domestic and international clientele and covers all areas of U.S. immigration law, including employment and investment-based immigration, work permits, permanent residence for qualified individuals, family-based immigration, asylum applications and all temporary and permanent-type visas. Today the firm’s multi-lingual staff is spread throughout its four offices located in New York City, Englewood, New Jersey, Miami, Florida, and by appointment in Los Angeles, California and Tel Aviv, Israel.
As a service to the community, the attorneys of Wildes & Weinberg have been lecturing extensively on U.S. immigration law to universities, corporations, non-profit and social organizations, other law firms, immigration municipalities, and to the public at large without a fee.
If you are interested in arranging a lecture for your organization, please contact Michael Wildes at michael@wildeslaw.com