Kate Kalmykov

Kate Kalmykov focuses her practice on business immigration and compliance. She represents clients in a wide-range of employment based immigrant and non-immigrant visa matters including students, trainees, professionals, managers and executives, artists and entertainers, treaty investors and traders, persons of extraordinary ability and immigrant investors.

Kate has deep experience working on EB-5 immigrant investor matters. She regularly works with developers across a variety of industries, as well as private equity funds on developing new projects that qualify for EB-5 investments. This includes creation of new Regional Centers, having projects adopted by existing Regional Centers or through pooled individual EB-5 petitions. For existing Regional Centers, Kate regularly helps to prepare amendment filings, file exemplar petitions, address removal of conditions issues and ensure that they develop an internal program for ongoing compliance with applicable immigration regulations and guidance. She also counsels foreign nationals on obtaining greencards through either individual or Regional Center EB-5 investments, as well as issues related to I-829 Removal of Conditions.

Kate also works with various human resources departments on I-9 employment verification matters as well as H-1B and LCA compliance. She regularly counsels employers on due diligence issues including internal audits and reviews, as well as minimization of exposure and liabilities in government investigations.

Recognition & Leadership

Awards & Accolades

•Listed, NJBIZ Best 50 Women in Business, 2019
•Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, Immigration Law, 2019-2020
•Listed, EB5 Investor magazine's Top 25 EB-5 Attorneys, 2013-2019
•Listed, Chambers USA Guide, 2013-2020
•Listed, The Legal 500 United States, Labor and Employment - Immigration, 2015-2019
•Listed, Lawdragon and Human Resource Executive magazine, 2017-2019
• The Nation’s Most Powerful Immigration Attorneys - Top 20, 2019
• 40 Up and Comers in Employment Law, 2017-2018
•Listed, Super Lawyers magazine, New York Super Lawyers, Rising Stars, 2012-2019
•Honoree, The National Law Journal, Trailblazer Award, Immigration, 2018
•Recipient, Summit Ambassador Award, Invest in America, 2015-2016
•Recipient, Best Contribution to EB-5, U.S. Investment Immigration Forum, 2015
•Editor, No. 3 Immigration Blog (Traffic), EB-5 Insights blog (www.eb5insights.com), LexBlog Am Law 200 Blog Benchmark Report, 2015
•Recipient, Significant Contribution to EB-5, Invest in America, 2015
•Team Member, Lexology’s Client Choice Award USA & Canada, United States: New Jersey, 2013
•Selected, New Jersey Law Journal, New Leaders of the Bar, 2012
•Outstanding Subcommittee Chair, American Bar Association, Litigation Section, Immigration Litigation Committee, 2010-2011
•Education Committee Co-Chair of the Year/Conference Committee Co-Chair, American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), Washington D.C. chapter, 2007