Hadeel Abouhasira focuses her practice on business immigration matters and advises clients in connection with their business and individual immigration issues. She assists clients, including those exploring foreign direct investment (FDI) opportunities in the U.S., with the cross-border movement of personnel and staffing needs and assists clients with obtaining nonimmigrant visas, such as B-1s, R-1s, H-1Bs, L-1As, L-1Bs, Blanket L-1s, TNs, E-2s, E-3s, and more. She also assists clients in obtaining U.S. permanent residence through employment-based green cards, including EB-2 and EB-3 PERM-based petitions, EB-1 multinational manager and executive petitions, special immigrant petitions and family-based petitions.
Hadeel Abouhasira focuses her practice on business immigration matters and advises clients in connection with their business and individual immigration issues. She assists clients, including those exploring foreign direct investment (FDI) opportunities in the U.S., with the cross-border movement of personnel and staffing needs and assists clients with obtaining nonimmigrant visas, such as B-1s, R-1s, H-1Bs, L-1As, L-1Bs, Blanket L-1s, TNs, E-2s, E-3s, and more. She also assists clients in obtaining U.S. permanent residence through employment-based green cards, including EB-2 and EB-3 PERM-based petitions, EB-1 multinational manager and executive petitions, special immigrant petitions and family-based petitions.
Hadeel represents clients in I-9 audits conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and she uses her knowledge and experience in immigration and employment law to counsel clients on a variety of I-9 issues.
Hadeel is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, American Bar Association, Virginia State Bar, Virginia Bar Association, Richmond Bar Association and Metro Richmond Women’s Bar Association.
In 2018, she was named to Style Weekly's Top 40 Under 40 list, which recognizes individuals in Richmond under the age of 40 who are making a difference in the community. She serves on the state board of directors for the Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities and as the membership development chair on the board of YWCA Richmond's Young Women's Leadership Alliance (YWLA). At the McGuire Veterans Affairs Hospital and at Senior Connections, she helps veterans and seniors establish their final wishes by preparing wills, advance medical directives and durable powers of attorney.
Hadeel received her Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law, where she served as the assistant development editor for the Virginia Journal of Criminal Law. While in law school, she worked extensively with various organizations providing pro bono legal services, such as the Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights (CAIR) Coalition and the Legal Aid Justice Center in Charlottesville, where she assisted young individuals in obtaining relief from deportation through DACA or by filing for asylum, T-visas, or U-visas.
Hadeel received her Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy, magna cum laude, from Virginia Commonwealth University. While at VCU, she was president of the Pre-Law Society.
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01.26.2021
Renewed Suspension of Certain Immigrant and Nonimmigrant Entries & New Travel Restrictions from Biden Administration Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
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12.01.2020
61 Williams Mullen Attorneys Named to Virginia Business Magazine’s Legal Elite for 2020
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06.23.2020
Temporary Suspension of Certain Nonimmigrant Visas Through the End of 2020
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03.23.2020
Coronavirus: Temporary Relaxation of Physical Presence Requirement for Completion of Form I-9 for New Hires Working Remotely
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01.15.2020
New Electronic H-1B Registration Process Confirmed for Fiscal Year 2021
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12.04.2019
55 Williams Mullen Attorneys Named to Virginia Business Magazine’s Legal Elite for 2019
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07.15.2019
Nationals From India Currently Waiting Decades for a Green Card: Could It Finally Be Coming to an End?
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04.04.2019
Immigration Team Files More than 100 H-1B Cap-Subject Petitions
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03.12.2019
Hadeel Abouhasira Featured on Richmond PBS/NPR Station's Instagram
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01.07.2019
Hadeel Abouhasira Interviewed on Ellie 2.0 Radio About Palestinian Background, Immigration Law
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12.04.2018
DHS Proposal Could Drastically Change H-1B Cap Filing Seasons
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10.24.2018
Hadeel Abouhasira Named to Style Weekly's Top 40 Under 40
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10.03.2018
Hadeel Abouhasira Discusses Impact of Evolving Immigration Legislation on Recruiters
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02.05.2018
It’s Time to Start Preparing for H-1B Cap Season
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01.09.2018
The Uncertainty of the Future of H-1B Visas Deepens
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12.20.2017
The Future of H-1B Visas May Be Scrooged
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06.23.2017
Williams Mullen Hosts National U.S.-Arab Chamber of Commerce Members for Foreign Direct Investment Seminar
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03.07.2017
Trump Administration Suspends Premium or Expedited Processing of All H-1B Petitions!
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01.30.2017
Travel Restrictions for Nationals of 7 Designated Countries Based on President Trump’s Recent Executive Order
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01.20.2017
U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services Publishes a NEW Rule Benefitting Employment-Based Immigration
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09.27.2016
I Can’t Ask That? - Taking a Closer Look at Citizenship and National Origin Discrimination
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04.11.2016
FDI USA News - April 2016
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02.05.2016
EXCEPTIONS TO RESTRICTIONS - Using the Visa Waiver Program (VWP)
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01.24.2016
U.S. State Dept. Advises on New Restrictions on Business Travel to USA
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12.21.2015
FDI USA News - December 2015
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11.23.2015
Williams Mullen Welcomes Seven First-Year Associates
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02.27.2019
Supporting Immigrants in the Workplace