Loren Locke

Loren Locke represents employers and employees in business immigration matters. She works directly with both individual foreign nationals and employers in pursuit of a wide variety of nonimmigrant visas and to achieve lawful permanent residence in the United States.

Loren advises on consular practice, with special expertise in E-2, E-3, H-1B1, and L-1 visas. She guides corporate clients through the full cycle of the labor certification-based green card process, including developing case strategy, preparing for and responding to audits, and requesting reconsideration in case of denial.

Loren develops enterprise-level corporate immigration strategy for companies in growth mode that seek to hire foreign workers directly from abroad to fill recurring hiring needs. This strategy has application across multiple industries, such as aviation, healthcare, and professional services.

Loren represents individual immigrants, focusing in particular on O-1 nonimmigrant petitions for individuals of extraordinary ability, National Interest Waiver I-140 petitions for individuals of exceptional ability, and EB-1 immigrant petitions for individuals of extraordinary ability, outstanding researchers, and multinational executives and managers.

Prior to founding Locke Immigration Law, Loren was a partner in the business immigration practice of a national labor and employment law firm. Before that, she practiced in an international full-service law firm with a high-volume immigration practice. And before that, she worked as a Foreign Service Officer for the U.S. Department of State, serving for two years as a consular officer in the U.S. Consulate General in Matamoros, Mexico, where she adjudicated some 12,000 nonimmigrant visas.