famed immigration attorney michael wildes discusses immigration problems facing pop star justin bieber

Former Federal Prosecutor and Immigration Lawyer Michael Wildes discusses Justin Bieber’s O-1 Visa and Bieber’s U.S. Immigration and Customs matters on ET after the talented entertainer was stopped at the airport recently.
Justin Bieber is one of many foreign nationals who come enter the United States on a temporary work visa each year. As a teen heart throb and icon in the music industry, Bieber applied for and was granted an O-1 visa.  The O-1 visa is awarded 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.  
Despite the fact that he is a talented entertainer, Bieber was stopped and questioned by U.S. Customs officials for more than 4 hours when he tried to enter the U.S. through LAX airport. Michael explained that when Bieber’s passport was swiped, “up popped his pending legal cases”, including a DUI in Miami as well as assault in Canada.  Bieber can expect that “he will be stopped and detained each and every time he tries to enter the U.S. until these matters are cleared up.”
For more than five decades, the firm of Wildes & Weinberg 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, the firm has a distinguished clientele and has done substantial immigration work for investors, scientists, physicians, bankers, performing artists, directors, writers, models, actors/actresses, athletes, fine artists, art dealers, curators, and literary agents.

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