Olivia M.Scofield
Staff Attorney
Labor & Employment
oscofield@seyfarth.com
Olivia helps clients find solutions to the legal and strategic challenges of the US immigration system.
More About Olivia
As companies expand across borders and seek to attract and retain top talent, they turn to Olivia to guide them through the wide range of employment-based immigration and nonimmigration legal matters they face.
Olivia has nearly a decade of business immigration experience, counseling clients in a variety of industries, including finance, insurance, medical research, pharmaceuticals, consumer product goods, marketing and market research, hospitality, retail, and the arts. She has extensive experience with nonimmigrant visa petitions, including H-1B, L-1, TN, E, and O-1 categories; and permanent resident applications, including extraordinary ability, manager/executive, and PERM-based applications.
Olivia provides innovative legal advice to businesses and individuals as they navigate the US immigration process. She has assisted clients with complex legal issues related to their international workforces, successfully developing strategies in the face of COVID-19-related travel and visa restrictions, the introduction of new visa processing technology and processes, and ever-changing US agency policies and regulations. Olivia has developed approaches to adjudicatory trends, including response strategies for requests for evidence related to specialty occupation, intracompany transferees, and extraordinary ability petitions. When working with clients, she prioritizes learning about the operations of business, the requirements of positions, and the backgrounds of foreign nationals.
Olivia has nearly a decade of business immigration experience, counseling clients in a variety of industries, including finance, insurance, medical research, pharmaceuticals, consumer product goods, marketing and market research, hospitality, retail, and the arts. She has extensive experience with nonimmigrant visa petitions, including H-1B, L-1, TN, E, and O-1 categories; and permanent resident applications, including extraordinary ability, manager/executive, and PERM-based applications.
Olivia provides innovative legal advice to businesses and individuals as they navigate the US immigration process. She has assisted clients with complex legal issues related to their international workforces, successfully developing strategies in the face of COVID-19-related travel and visa restrictions, the introduction of new visa processing technology and processes, and ever-changing US agency policies and regulations. Olivia has developed approaches to adjudicatory trends, including response strategies for requests for evidence related to specialty occupation, intracompany transferees, and extraordinary ability petitions. When working with clients, she prioritizes learning about the operations of business, the requirements of positions, and the backgrounds of foreign nationals.
- JD, University of Georgia School of Law
- BA, New York University
- New York
Related Services
- American Immigration Lawyers Association
Olivia helps clients find solutions to the legal and strategic challenges of the US immigration system.
More About Olivia
As companies expand across borders and seek to attract and retain top talent, they turn to Olivia to guide them through the wide range of employment-based immigration and nonimmigration legal matters they face.
Olivia has nearly a decade of business immigration experience, counseling clients in a variety of industries, including finance, insurance, medical research, pharmaceuticals, consumer product goods, marketing and market research, hospitality, retail, and the arts. She has extensive experience with nonimmigrant visa petitions, including H-1B, L-1, TN, E, and O-1 categories; and permanent resident applications, including extraordinary ability, manager/executive, and PERM-based applications.
Olivia provides innovative legal advice to businesses and individuals as they navigate the US immigration process. She has assisted clients with complex legal issues related to their international workforces, successfully developing strategies in the face of COVID-19-related travel and visa restrictions, the introduction of new visa processing technology and processes, and ever-changing US agency policies and regulations. Olivia has developed approaches to adjudicatory trends, including response strategies for requests for evidence related to specialty occupation, intracompany transferees, and extraordinary ability petitions. When working with clients, she prioritizes learning about the operations of business, the requirements of positions, and the backgrounds of foreign nationals.
Olivia has nearly a decade of business immigration experience, counseling clients in a variety of industries, including finance, insurance, medical research, pharmaceuticals, consumer product goods, marketing and market research, hospitality, retail, and the arts. She has extensive experience with nonimmigrant visa petitions, including H-1B, L-1, TN, E, and O-1 categories; and permanent resident applications, including extraordinary ability, manager/executive, and PERM-based applications.
Olivia provides innovative legal advice to businesses and individuals as they navigate the US immigration process. She has assisted clients with complex legal issues related to their international workforces, successfully developing strategies in the face of COVID-19-related travel and visa restrictions, the introduction of new visa processing technology and processes, and ever-changing US agency policies and regulations. Olivia has developed approaches to adjudicatory trends, including response strategies for requests for evidence related to specialty occupation, intracompany transferees, and extraordinary ability petitions. When working with clients, she prioritizes learning about the operations of business, the requirements of positions, and the backgrounds of foreign nationals.
- JD, University of Georgia School of Law
- BA, New York University
- New York
Related Services
- American Immigration Lawyers Association