About Us

Niranjan “Nir” Adhikari

Managing Attorney *

Tel:  202-600-7742 (office), 888-820-4430 (toll free), 510 394 2939 (Text/V-mail) | Fax: (+1) 202-792-6243 | e-mail: info@adhikarilaw.com
(*Admitted only in New York, and practice is limited to matters and proceedings before federal courts and agencies)

Nir  represents businesses  as well as individuals on all aspects of  U.S. immigration and nationality laws, and foreign investment and international business transaction matters. He handles  business immigration as well as family-based immigration, special immigration programs, citizenship, and all the visa programs. He has served  multinational corporations, foreign corporations seeking business expansion  to the U.S., domestic corporations, individual investors, entrepreneurs, and U.S. citizens and permanent residents in sponsoring their family members.

He also advises foreign and multinational companies on the immigration law matters in global mobility, in M&A, and in bankruptcy. He provides legal guide to start-ups and venture funds; handles matters of JOBS Act, SEC filing, Trademarks and Copyright, Intellectual Property Transactions, Int’l Biz Transactions, Int’l Trade (including export-control) for small business.

Mr. Adhikari has more than nine year of U.S. legal experience which involved immigration law, immigration compliance, anti-trust (competition) law, M&A, int’l law, government contracts, and business transactions. For the last four year he has advised companies and individuals on U.S. immigration law and immigration compliance, government audits and investigations for immigration compliance, and handled large number of complex as well as general immigration law and compliance related matters for corporate as well as individual clients.

Nir is admitted to New York State Bar, and he is also a member of American Bar Association, Federal Bar Association, New York State Bar Association, and American Immigration Lawyers Association. He received his Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, Berkeley, CA, USA where he extensively studied corporate law and corporate finance, M&A in technology industry, international trade law and international law.

Selected Representative Matters and Highlights

• Practicing law in U.S. for over nine (9) years, and have been practicing U.S. immigration law for over seven (7) years and have handed complex cases for large (incl. publicly traded) companies, IT consulting and staffing companies, medium and small enterprises; and prior to that was involved in anti-trust law and government contracts.
• Has been appointed by a State as their outside lawyer to handle their their immigration law cases and compliance matters.
• Has been retained by major research university to be their outside lawyer to handle their their immigration law cases for professors, scientists, researchers and professionals and for immigration compliance matters.
• Advised large variety of clients on complex immigration and its compliance.
• Single-handedly managed and handled large immigration law portfolio with strict and intersecting deadlines with high volumes.
• Successfully defended corporations on Department of Labor, Department of State and Department of Homeland Security’s audits and site-inspections including leading a compliance advisory team for a major corporation.
• Saved substantially large sum of monies to clients using a unique immigration strategy and little knowledge legal provisions.
• Delivered major pro bono services to local organizations and individuals.

Speaking Engagements and Trade Delegations

• Part of the U.S. trade delegation to the Trade Winds Conference and Trade Mission in New Delhi, India, May 2019. U.S. trade delegation was led by U.S. Secretary of Commerce.
• International delegate from the U.S. at DAXPO BUSAN 2019 (Digital Asset Exchange Expo is the world's first event that caters major cryptocurrency exchanges and companies in the cryptocurrency industry), Busan, South Korea.
• U.S. legal professional delegate to the Invest in the USA's roadshows in Seoul (South Korea), Taipei, (Taiwan) and Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), 2019. It is a premier business development and educational event connecting investors and investment professionals.
• Speaker, Cross Border Immigration Analysis: Trump vs. Trudeau, a Zero-Sum Game?, 16th Annual
  Conference of South Asian Bar Association- North America, Atlanta, GA, June 21, 2019.
• Moderator, CHARLIE CHAT: Deciphering the Visa Bulletin and at the annual Immigration Law Conference of Federal Bar Association (FBA, www.fedbar.org, http://www.fedbar.org/Image-Library/Events/2018-Immigration-Law-Conference/ImmLaw18-Onsite-Program.aspx), May 18-19, 2018, Memphis, TN.
• Moderator, IMMIGRANT VISA PROCESSING AND WAIVERS: Unlawful Presence, Applicability of Bars to Admissibility, I-601A Waivers, Effect of Minority and Voluntary Departure, etc. at the annual Immigration Law Conference of Federal Bar Association (FBA, www.fedbar.org, http://www.fedbar.org/Image-Library/Events/2018-Immigration-Law-Conference/ImmLaw18-Onsite-Program.aspx), May 18-19, 2018, Memphis, TN.
• Speaker alongside government officials from Customs and Border Protection (CBP), FBI, Department of Justice (DOJ), U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Know Your Rights/Immigration Clinic, Gurudwara, Virginia, May 6, 2018.
• Speaker, Visa and Immigration Planning for Student, Scholars, Faculty and Staff members including Visa Programs for Private Sector Employment, Start-ups and Self-Petition, May 10th, 2017, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA.

Education

• Master in Laws (LL.M.) University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, Berkeley, CA, USA.
• Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.), Kathmandu School of Law, Nepal.

Academic Training

• Directed Studies and the Summer Course on Private International Law, Hague Academy of International Law, The Hague, the Netherlands.
• Summer Program on International Law, Xiamen (Asia) Academy of International Law, China.
• Communicating Freedom Workshop, Mumbai, Centre for Civil Society, India.
• Human Rights Summer School, Empowerment through Law of the Common People, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Membership in Professional Associations

• American Bar Association
  • Section of International Law
  • Immigration and Nationality Law Committee, and member of its Steering Committee
  • India Committee
• American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)
  • Co-Chair of Citizenship Day Committee, AILA DC (pro bono)
• Federal Bar Association
  • Immigration Law Section
  • District of Columbia Chapter
  • Intellectual Property and Communications Law Section
  • International Law Section
  • Securities Law Section
• New York State Bar Association
  • Corporate Law Section
  • International Law Section
• South Asian Bar Association (SABA)
  • Former Chair of the Immigration Law Committee, SABA-DC
• National Asian Pacific American Bar Association
• Asian Pacific American Bar Association-District of Columbia (DC)

Public Interest and Pro Bono Activities

• Board member, MITEF Washington DC & Baltimore
• General member, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• Secretary of the Executive Board of the Durga Temple, Fairfax Station, Virginia.
• Provided extensive pro bono legal services to community members through temple, church, gurudwara and other nonprofits.
• Volunteer for DC Bar for it’s pro bono programs, and member of the Citizenship Day Committee of AILA-DC Chapter (ongoing).
• Volunteer Judge for the International Rounds of Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, Washington, DC since 2010- present.

Languages

Nepalese (native); native level level fluency in English and Hindi; conversant in Bhojpuri and Urdu; and beginner in French and Sanskrit.

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