Paul M. Heller, Esq.

Paul M. Heller is an acclaimed immigration attorney in the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley — well known and highly respected by Silicon Valley executives, the venture capital community and HR managers.

Mr. Heller has practiced U.S. immigration law for more than 30 years from the San Francisco Bay Area. His practice centers on the visas and green cards that matter most to Silicon Valley: H-1B and O-1 work visas, L-1 intracompany transfers, E-3 and TN professionals, PERM labor certification, EB-1 extraordinary ability and the EB-2 National Interest Waiver for people with exceptional achievements.

He also represents families through marriage-based green cards, adjustment of status and naturalization, including same-sex couples and LGBTQ clients.

Relationships That Help Clients

• Long-standing working relationships with high-level officials at USCIS, the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Labor.
• Often called on to advise Designated School Officials (DSOs) — at Stanford, UC Berkeley, and many other schools — on student and scholar immigration matters.
• A professional network on LinkedIn of 20,000 first connections across technology, venture capital and academia, including CEOs and other C-level executives, prominent investors, board members, leaders in academia, and leaders in cutting-edge research.

How Paul Works

Once we take on a case, every matter gets direct attorney attention, from start to final approval. Clients get a clear plan and a realistic timeline.

This firm is not an H-1B mill, and it never has been. We don't crunch out cookie-cutter cases for large companies — the same petition, copied a hundred times. We work with large companies too, but every case is built around the person in it: their record, their history, their timing. Each matter is given individual attention. These days, USCIS scrutinizes every single matter to the utmost degree — and that is exactly where this way of working pays off: a case built around the person, with the record to support it, holds up under that scrutiny.