Visa Crackdown Boosts Job Market for Immigration Lawyers

The job market for immigration lawyers is heating up as employers turn to law firms for help navigating the increasingly tricky process of bringing in foreign workers, several lawyers and legal recruiters told Bloomberg Law.

“Securing work visas for highly-skilled workers is much harder than it was two years ago,” according to Ian R. Macdonald, co-chair of Greenberg Traurig’s business immigration practice. A growth in immigration-related legal work is “an unforeseen benefit of the Trump administration,” he told Bloomberg Law.

Tough immigration enforcement was one of President Donald Trump’s most notable campaign promises.

“The government is requiring employers to submit ...