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Supervising Attorney jobs with H-1B visa sponsorship require a law degree and active bar admission, making them a strong specialty occupation fit. Employers file an LCA with DOL certifying prevailing wage compliance before USCIS reviews the I-129 petition. H-1B visa status is granted for up to three years, extendable to six.
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FLSA Status: Full-Time, Exempt
Classification: Professional
Program: Immigrant and Refugee Services Division: Immigration Legal Services Program
Location: Manhattan, 80 Maiden Lane
Reports to: Managing Attorney
Supervisory Responsibilities: Yes
The salary for this position is: $115,000 - $120,000 annually.
Summary: This position provides legal representation to hundreds of minors in removal proceedings each year and delivers legal information to thousands of youth in federal immigration custody.
Supports young people outside the courtroom by offering educational and integration opportunities and connecting them with community-based social services.
The Supervising Attorney represents youth in removal proceedings who are or were in ORR custody. The role involves extensive work with young people who have experienced abuse, abandonment, neglect, or other trauma, significant court appearances in state and immigration courts and local asylum offices in the New York City area, and travel to ORR facilities as needed.
This is a grant funded position, and employment will depend on continued availability of funding.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
- Supervise staff in the provision of child-centered, trauma-informed, and culturally competent legal services to ORR-involved unaccompanied non-citizen minors.
- Train and mentor attorneys, paralegals, and law graduates in immigration and family law, support more experienced attorneys on complex representation, assign new cases in a manner that promotes staff wellbeing and longevity, and identify and implement best practices across the legal practice.
- Maintain a sensible caseload, in light of and secondary to supervisory duties, that will include screening, advising, and representing children before EOIR, USCIS, and state and federal courts.
- Ensure that staff provide ORR-involved young people with the information and advice they need to make informed decisions regarding their immigration matters, and oversee staff’s work product on clients’ applications for legal relief.
- Use the client management database and SharePoint to timely and accurately maintain and update records. This may include notes from any meetings with youth, information of all correspondence received for or from stakeholders, communications regarding a client’s matter, tracking deadlines and event reminders, and uploading other documents or information as needed.
- Lead regular team meetings, provide in-house and outreach trainings, presentations, and workshops.
- Draft protocols and issue guidance to triage issues timely, to honor clients’ expressed wishes, and to support advocacy efforts to ensure that ORR-involved children’s rights are upheld and safeguarded.
- Send referrals to Case Management colleagues to provide timely supportive services to clients.
- Maintain strong working relationships with stakeholders.
- Maintain client information confidential.
- Comply with record-keeping, case file management, and reporting requirements.
- Adhere to Agency and Immigration Legal Services Program protocols.
Requirements
Position Type and Expected Hours of Work:
This is a full-time position. Days and hours of work are 9:00am to 5:00pm daily Monday through Friday. Additional hours may be required to meet court and program deadlines or client needs. All client services must be delivered in person, but hybrid work is permissible.
Working Conditions and Physical Demands:
The demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
- Remain stationary at a workstation and/or use a computer at least 70% of the time.
- Ability to operate standard office equipment such as but not limited to a computer, copy machine, fax, scanner, telephone, postage machine, and printer.
- Ability to transport, lift, and file documents/supplies in cabinets.
- Ability to transport, lift, and carry a laptop to work and to offsite work locations.
- Travel using public transportation and traversing city streets. Occasionally ascend/descend stairs and be exposed to outside weather conditions.
Qualifications
Education and/or Experiences:
- A Juris Doctorate or LLM from an accredited law school required. Admission to NY Bar required.
- At least one year of supervisory experience is preferred.
- Experience working with youth or with incarcerated/detained people is preferred.
- Experience in family/immigration law, including clinical or pro bono experience is preferred.
Skills, Licenses, and/or Competencies required:
- Fluency in English required. Fluency in Spanish is strongly preferred. A willingness and ability to swiftly achieve full fluency in Spanish required.
- Excellent communication, organizational, analytical, interpersonal, and time management skills. Strong attention to detail and ability to remain poised under pressure.
- Ability to work independently and exercise good judgment, and ability to work in a highly collaborative team environment in a fast-paced, high-intensity environment.
- Demonstrated commitment to public interest law, particularly to children’s issues and/or immigration advocacy. Ability to work with young people and at-risk populations.
- Willingness and flexibility to shuffle work assignments to meet program requirements.
Catholic Charities and Catholic Charities Community Services is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristics protected by law.
Position Title: Supervising Attorney
FLSA Status: Full-Time, Exempt
Classification: Professional
Program: Immigrant and Refugee Services Division: Immigration Legal Services Program
Location: Manhattan, 80 Maiden Lane
Reports to: Managing Attorney
Supervisory Responsibilities: Yes
The salary for this position is: $115,000 - $120,000 annually.
Summary: This position provides legal representation to hundreds of minors in removal proceedings each year and delivers legal information to thousands of youth in federal immigration custody.
Supports young people outside the courtroom by offering educational and integration opportunities and connecting them with community-based social services.
The Supervising Attorney represents youth in removal proceedings who are or were in ORR custody. The role involves extensive work with young people who have experienced abuse, abandonment, neglect, or other trauma, significant court appearances in state and immigration courts and local asylum offices in the New York City area, and travel to ORR facilities as needed.
This is a grant funded position, and employment will depend on continued availability of funding.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
- Supervise staff in the provision of child-centered, trauma-informed, and culturally competent legal services to ORR-involved unaccompanied non-citizen minors.
- Train and mentor attorneys, paralegals, and law graduates in immigration and family law, support more experienced attorneys on complex representation, assign new cases in a manner that promotes staff wellbeing and longevity, and identify and implement best practices across the legal practice.
- Maintain a sensible caseload, in light of and secondary to supervisory duties, that will include screening, advising, and representing children before EOIR, USCIS, and state and federal courts.
- Ensure that staff provide ORR-involved young people with the information and advice they need to make informed decisions regarding their immigration matters, and oversee staff’s work product on clients’ applications for legal relief.
- Use the client management database and SharePoint to timely and accurately maintain and update records. This may include notes from any meetings with youth, information of all correspondence received for or from stakeholders, communications regarding a client’s matter, tracking deadlines and event reminders, and uploading other documents or information as needed.
- Lead regular team meetings, provide in-house and outreach trainings, presentations, and workshops.
- Draft protocols and issue guidance to triage issues timely, to honor clients’ expressed wishes, and to support advocacy efforts to ensure that ORR-involved children’s rights are upheld and safeguarded.
- Send referrals to Case Management colleagues to provide timely supportive services to clients.
- Maintain strong working relationships with stakeholders.
- Maintain client information confidential.
- Comply with record-keeping, case file management, and reporting requirements.
- Adhere to Agency and Immigration Legal Services Program protocols.
Requirements
Position Type and Expected Hours of Work:
This is a full-time position. Days and hours of work are 9:00am to 5:00pm daily Monday through Friday. Additional hours may be required to meet court and program deadlines or client needs. All client services must be delivered in person, but hybrid work is permissible.
Working Conditions and Physical Demands:
The demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
- Remain stationary at a workstation and/or use a computer at least 70% of the time.
- Ability to operate standard office equipment such as but not limited to a computer, copy machine, fax, scanner, telephone, postage machine, and printer.
- Ability to transport, lift, and file documents/supplies in cabinets.
- Ability to transport, lift, and carry a laptop to work and to offsite work locations.
- Travel using public transportation and traversing city streets. Occasionally ascend/descend stairs and be exposed to outside weather conditions.
Qualifications
Education and/or Experiences:
- A Juris Doctorate or LLM from an accredited law school required. Admission to NY Bar required.
- At least one year of supervisory experience is preferred.
- Experience working with youth or with incarcerated/detained people is preferred.
- Experience in family/immigration law, including clinical or pro bono experience is preferred.
Skills, Licenses, and/or Competencies required:
- Fluency in English required. Fluency in Spanish is strongly preferred. A willingness and ability to swiftly achieve full fluency in Spanish required.
- Excellent communication, organizational, analytical, interpersonal, and time management skills. Strong attention to detail and ability to remain poised under pressure.
- Ability to work independently and exercise good judgment, and ability to work in a highly collaborative team environment in a fast-paced, high-intensity environment.
- Demonstrated commitment to public interest law, particularly to children’s issues and/or immigration advocacy. Ability to work with young people and at-risk populations.
- Willingness and flexibility to shuffle work assignments to meet program requirements.
Catholic Charities and Catholic Charities Community Services is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristics protected by law.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as a Supervising Attorney
Verify your bar admission transfers across states
Each state has its own admission requirements, and your sponsoring employer's LCA is tied to a specific worksite state. Confirm your bar license covers that jurisdiction before you apply, since USCIS reviews whether your credentials directly support the offered role.
Pull prevailing wage data before negotiating
Use the OFLC Wage Search to look up the wage level for your SOC code and worksite location. Your employer's LCA must certify at least that wage, so knowing the floor before negotiations protects you from offers that can't survive DOL review.
Search Migrate Mate for verified sponsoring law employers
Find Supervising Attorney roles at employers with confirmed H-1B LCA filing history on Migrate Mate. Targeting companies that have already sponsored similar legal roles cuts the time you spend educating HR about the process from scratch.
Ask about separate LCAs for multi-office firms
If the role involves supervising attorneys across different offices or courts, each worksite needs its own certified LCA. Raise this early with your prospective employer so DOL filings cover every location before your start date.
Document your supervisory duties for specialty occupation evidence
USCIS requires proof the position qualifies as a specialty occupation. Request a detailed offer letter listing your degree-level legal responsibilities, not just management tasks, so the I-129 petition clearly ties your J.D. to the role's core functions.
Account for premium processing when planning your start date
Standard USCIS adjudication timelines can stretch several months, but premium processing can accelerate the decision to roughly 15 business days. Coordinate this with your employer early so your start date doesn't hinge on a standard timeline your offer can't accommodate.
H-1B Visa Supervising Attorney: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Supervising Attorney role qualify as an H-1B specialty occupation?
Yes, Supervising Attorney positions typically qualify as a specialty occupation because they require at minimum a J.D. and active bar admission in a specific legal field. USCIS looks at whether the degree requirement is a standard industry norm for the role, and law consistently meets that threshold. Your employer's I-129 petition should document this directly with the job description and industry norms.
Which employer types most commonly sponsor H-1B visas for Supervising Attorney roles?
Corporate legal departments, large law firms, government contractors, nonprofit legal organizations, and financial institutions with in-house counsel teams are the most active sponsors for senior legal roles. These employers already have established immigration infrastructure and understand multi-year H-1B commitments. You can browse verified H-1B sponsoring employers in the legal sector on Migrate Mate to identify active filers before you apply.
Can my H-1B transfer to a new employer if I change law firms or companies?
Yes, H-1B portability allows you to transfer your status to a new sponsoring employer once you've filed a valid I-129 petition. You can begin working for the new employer as soon as that petition is received by USCIS, without waiting for final approval. The new employer must file a new LCA certified for the specific worksite and role before submitting the transfer petition.
How long does H-1B status last for a Supervising Attorney position?
H-1B status is initially granted for up to three years and can be extended once for an additional three years, reaching a six-year maximum. Extensions beyond six years are possible only if you have a qualifying permanent residence application pending at a specific stage. Your employer must file a new I-129 extension petition and a refreshed LCA before your current status expires.
What happens to my H-1B if I take on supervisory duties at a second office location?
Each worksite where you perform H-1B duties requires its own certified LCA on file with DOL. If your Supervising Attorney role expands to include regular work at a branch office not covered by your original LCA, your employer must certify a new LCA for that location before you work there. Failing to do this puts both your status and your employer's compliance record at risk.