FAMED IMMIGRATION ATTORNEY MICHAEL WILDES DISCUSSES IMMIGRATION PROBLEMS FACING POP STAR JUSTIN BIEBER

Former Federal Prosecutor and Immigration Lawyer Michael Wildes Esq discusses Justin Bieber's O-1 Visa and Bieber's U.S. Immigration and Customs matters on ET after the talented entertainer was stopped at the airport recently.

Justin Bieber is one of many foreign nationals who come enter the United States on a temporary work visa each year. As a teen heart throb and icon in the music industry, Bieber applied for and was granted an O-1 visa.  The O-1 visa is awarded to an individual who possesses extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics, or who has a demonstrated record of extraordinary achievement in the motion picture or television industry and has been recognized nationally or internationally for those achievements.  

Despite the fact that he is a talented entertainer, Bieber was stopped and questioned by U.S. Customs officials for more than 4 hours when he tried to enter the U.S. through LAX airport. Michael explained that when Bieber’s passport was swiped, “up popped his pending legal cases”, including a DUI in Miami as well as assault in Canada.  Bieber can expect that “he will be stopped and detained each and every time he tries to enter the U.S. until these matters are cleared up.”

For more than five decades, the firm of Wildes & Weinberg has concentrated its practice in all aspects of U.S. immigration and nationality law, servicing the immigration needs of prominent American and International firms, banks, industrial, financial and manufacturing concerns and law firms in connection with the personnel needs of their foreign national employees.  In addition, the firm has a distinguished clientele and has done substantial immigration work for investors, scientists, physicians, bankers, performing artists, directors, writers, models, actors/actresses, athletes, fine artists, art dealers, curators, and literary agents.

Source: http://www.wildeslaw.com/index.php/news-events/in-the-news/1185

Wildes & Weinberg Hosts WhyHunger Auction Winner

Wildes & Weinberg, P.C. Senior Partner Leon Wildes and Managing Partner Michael Wildes enjoy lunch with Raymond Passero, winner of The Immigration Package that was auctioned off at the WhyHunger event in January, 2014.

WhyHunger (www.whyhunger.org) is a non-profit organization working to end hunger and poverty by connecting people to nutritious, affordable food and by supporting grassroots solutions that inspire self-reliance and community empowerment.  

On both a domestic and international level, the number of people experiencing food insecurity, meaning that they go without food and/ or need to rely from time to time on emergency sources, or that face hunger on a daily basis as a result of living at or below the poverty line is increasing exponentially. Research shows that people who do not consume the minimum amount of calories needed for sound health and growth also experience higher levels of chronic illness, anxiety, and depression.

This past January, Raymond Passero was the lucky winner of the Immigration Package which included a one-hour consultation with Leon and Michael Wildes Esq, who is also a Board Member of WhyHunger, as well as an iconic photo of John Lennon after he was granted permission to stay in New York. The photo was signed by Leon who successfully represented former Beatle John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono, in their widely publicized deportation proceedings, the circumstances of which have inspired several films, documentaries, and a multitude of written works.  The photograph was taken by acclaimed photographer Bob Gruen, also a client of Wildes & Weinberg.

This donation item is just another example of the firm’s commitment to community service and social action.

Source: http://www.wildeslaw.com/index.php/news-events/events-and-outreach/1190