Sometimes a question is straightforward — and if you reach out by email with something I can answer quickly, I'm happy to do that at no charge. It's part of how I've always worked with colleagues in this field.

For more in-depth consulting — whether that's a complex regulatory question, a policy review, a compliance audit, or guidance on any education-based visa issue including F-1, J-1, or H-1B — I'm available for substantive advisory engagements. That work draws on decades of hands-on experience navigating the regulatory landscape in higher education, and I bring the same careful attention to institutional questions that I bring to individual cases.

In-depth consulting is billed at $150 per hour.

Sometimes what a team needs goes beyond a phone consultation. If you are interested in more, I would start by finding out about your team: where you're strong, where you're stretched, and what would make the biggest difference. Then I design the day around that.

For regulatory training, there are two paths. I can build a session around the F-1 Compliance Toolkit, working through the modules with your staff so they can see where the regulation, SEVP guidance, and your institutional policy line up and where they drift apart. Or I can design a training on a regulatory topic of your choosing, such as F-1 employment authorization, SEVIS reporting, or whatever has been tripping up your office lately. Off-the-shelf workshops rarely fit the office you actually run, so I don't offer one. Instead, the session is built around your policies and your real cases, not a generic slide deck.

Regulatory work is only one option. A day might also include a session on working across cultures, a refresh after a busy term, or a mix of all of these, with icebreakers and fun team activities included. As a certified IDI trainer and longtime NAFSA workshop presenter, I bring both substance and a good sense of how to keep a room engaged.

When your institution is ready to pursue permanent residence for a researcher or faculty member, I can help with the employment-based categories that fit the strengths of an academic career. For outstanding professors and researchers, I prepare EB-1B petitions in partnership with your office, working with the department and the researcher to build a record that makes the case clearly. I also handle EB-1A and National Interest Waiver petitions for your researchers, which gives them a path that doesn't depend on a PERM labor certification. I don't handle PERMS, so cases that need a labor certification would need to stay with your existing process.

I run a deliberately lean practice and take on only the cases I believe in. That keeps my overhead low, and my fees reflect it: you and your professor/researcher work directly with me, with the same experience you'd expect from a large firm and none of the associate layers.

Not every need fits a menu. If you have a question or a project that isn't covered above, bring it to me. I'm open to talking through anything an institution might want an expert opinion on. That could be an external review of your ISSS office, an audit of your H-1B public access files, a second look at a policy before you roll it out, or a problem that has been sitting on someone's desk because no one has had the time or the standing to resolve it. We'll start with a conversation about what you need, and I'll scope the work and the fee to match. If it turns out to be outside what I do, I'll tell you so and, where I can, point you toward someone who is a better fit.