Raymond Lahoud
Allentown, PA
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Law Degree
Awards
Primary Practice Area
Immigration
Language
English
About
Raymond G. Lahoud, Partner at Norris McLaughlin, P.A., and Chair of the Firm’s Immigration Law Practice, focuses exclusively on the area of immigration law and deportation defense for individuals, families, small to large domestic and multinational businesses and corporations, employers, international employees, investors, students, professors, researchers, skilled professionals, athletes, and entertainers, in every type of immigration or deportation defense matter—whether domestic or foreign. While Ray’s immigration practice is global in reach, with service to individuals and organizations across the United States and beyond, he is located primarily at the firm’s three globally-linked offices: New York, New York; Bridgewater, New Jersey; and Allentown, Pennsylvania.Ray’s immigration practice is broad, ranging from areas of corporate and employment immigration and related compliance to immigration litigation before agencies and courts across the United States, for corporations and individuals alike. His experience includes immigrant and non-immigrant visas, visa overstays, immigrants who entered without inspection or authorization, EB-5 investor visas (serving investors, regional centers, and project developers), citizenship and naturalization claims, deportation and removal litigation at the immigration court and all appellate levels, E Visas, E-3 Visas, H-1B Visas, H-2B Visas, L Visas, O Visas, P Visas, Q Visas, R Visas, TN Visas, Exceptional Ability Immigrant Visas, Extraordinary Ability Immigrant Visas, Physician and Nursing Visas, K-1 Visas, K-3 Visas, Multinational Manager/Executive Immigrant Visas, Outstanding Professor/Researcher Immigrant Visas, PERM Labor Certification, Family Petitions, Adjustment of Status, Marriage Petitions, Asylum, VAWA applications, and Immigration Waivers, such as the Visa Waiver Program, National Interest Waivers, Hardship Waivers, and J Waivers.Ray’s corporate immigration practice includes representing businesses of all sizes, in all corporate immigration and employer immigration compliance matters. He has served nearly every industry, including healthcare, education (community colleges, colleges, universities, students, professors, and researchers), manufacturing, global and domestic employment/talent recruitment, warehousing and distribution, pharmaceutical, economic development, local, county, and state government agencies, non-profit, religious, real estate development and EB-5 investor financing, information technology, marketing, entertainment, and sports. Ray’s corporate immigration and employer immigration compliance practice includes all non-immigrant and immigrant visas, recruitment of international talent and students, and consular processing, as well as Form I-9 and Department of Labor Wage & Hour Division compliance. Further, he has litigated corporate immigration matters before the Department of Labor’s Wage & Hour Division, the Department of Homeland Security’s investigative bodies and agencies, the State Department, the United States Court of Appeals for International Trade, the Customs & Border Protection review board, and federal appellate courts—seeking review of employer immigration compliance and other immigrant and non-immigrant visa issues.Ray’s immigration litigation practice includes deportation defense of thousands of individuals, at the Immigration Court, the Board of Immigration Appeals, the Administrative Appeals Office, and federal district and circuit courts. In state and federal trial and appellate courts, he seeks post-conviction relief for the underlying crime that led to the removal proceedings and serves as immigration counsel to non-citizens accused of removable crimes. Ray’s ability to understand each interaction of criminal law with immigration law has made him a leading expert on issues of “crimigration” before state and federal courts reviewing post-conviction relief claims.As Chair of the Immigration Practice Group, Ray oversees a leading team of immigration attorneys, immigration review compliance experts, employer immigration auditors, and paralegals and legal assistants with extensive and continuing immigration law training and significant practice experience.Ray has received numerous accolades. He has been awarded the Empire State Pro Bono Counsel Award each year since 2012, has been selected as Lead Counsel, received the Martindale-Hubbell Platinum Client Champion Award, and has been named a Super Lawyers Rising Star, ranked as a Top Rated Immigration Attorney in the New York Metro Area. EB5 Investors, the leading online portal, conference series, and magazine for investors, developers, and EB-5 professionals, has named Ray one of the “Top 5 Rising Stars” nationally. He was also named one of the 40 young professionals from the Greater Lehigh Valley as the Lehigh Valley Business 2017 Forty Under 40 for his commitment to business growth, professional excellence, and the community.In law school, Ray earned Dean’s List, received CALI awards in many courses, and worked on the Georgetown Immigration Law Journal. He was actively involved in additional programs and other organizations including the Barristers’ Counsel, ABA Law Student Division, ACLU at GULC, Catholic Student Association, and the Innocence Project, and worked for the Honorable Joanne Seybert, Federal District Court Judge for the Eastern District of New York.At Lehigh, Ray was Editor of The Lehigh Review, earned Dean’s List, was named a President’s Scholar, was inducted into Phi Beta Delta, and received, among other awards, the Williams Award, Treen Scholarship, and Littner Scholarship.He served as a United States Congressional Page under then-Congressman Ray LaHood (R-IL), and was a legislative aide to State Senator Lisa Boscola (D-PA).
Practices Areas
Immigration
Language
English
Contact
Reviews
I hired Raymond Lahoud to assist on an employer immigration matter for my company. He is a great lawyer and knows how to win. I highly recommend Raymond Lahoud.
I hired Raymond to help me in my Pennsylvania immigration matter. He was dedicated, intelligent, respectful, and knows how to win. It was a tough deportation case that involved some of the most complex if issues— and he won the case!!
Raymond Lahoud is an excellent immigration lawyer. He is hard working and cares about clients. I have hired him on a corporate immigration matter and one for a personal immigration issue and Ray always came through to help me. He serves the Lehigh Valley well and does great things for his clients. Words like dedication, intelligent come to mind when I think of Ray as an attorney. He provides the most aggressive of representation for each client. I give Raymond Lahoud the highest of marks and stars when it comes to immigration law!
Our company sought the legal services of Raymond Lahoud following an investigation by federal immigration officials about our hiring practices. Attorney Lahoud defended us with incredible knowledge, experience, dedication, vigor, creativity, wit, and ability to act on his legal feet like no person i have ever seen. Through his representation, we were successful in our defense and our company only continues today because of Raymond Lahoud. i strongly recommend Raymond Lahoud.
I hired Attorney Lahoud for a U visa where I was the victim of a brutal assault. I was afraid and did not know what to do. I already had a deportation order, and was facing deportation after I was picked up by immigration. Attorney Lahoud secured my release and was able to work through years of my case history to get down to the bottom of it, and bring it to a resolution. I am now a lawful permanent resident and can apply for citizenship next years. Thank you Raymond Lahoud.
I write to thank Attorney Raymond Lahoud for the excellent immigration representation he offered me. He is hard working and really care so much about clients. He goes in to cases to win, is aggressive in representing clients, and is one of the only lawyers I have ever dealt with that is able to communicate to clients in a way that makes clients feel comfortable, with a knowledge that everything will work out. I strongly recommend Raymond Lahoud.
Raymond Lahoud is a tremendous employment immigration lawyer. I hired Attorney Lahoud for an immigration matter where I was facing the closing of my company because an I-9 audit. Raymond saved my company. He was able to remediate our entire I-9 compliance process and led the fight to secure no fines for our company. He is an excellent immigration attorney and I strongly recommend him.
I hired Raymond Lahoud to help me in a tough deportation case for my brother and he saved his life. My brother was facing torture if was sent back to our country and Attorney Lahoud put such a good case together. We won like it was the easiest thing ever for him, because he Attorney Lahoud is a natural at being a lawyer. I strongly recommend him for all immigration issues. You can trust him.
My brother was arrested by immigration and we had little hope because of past immigration problems. I went to 4 lawyers before who turned me away. Raymond listened to me, looked at the case, and gave us options. We believed in him and Raymond fought like a master lawyer. He is so good and we won our case. My brother is a permanent resident now because of Raymond and our entire family thanks him. We love our lawyer Raymond Lahoud.
Our company hired Attorney Lahoud when we were faced with a shocking, random immigration audit for our employees. Our records were a mess and we were looking at over $200k in fines. We hired Attorney Lahoud as soon as immigration came to our company and he jumped right into the role as our immigration attorney, put a stop to everything, and was able to conduct remediation of our Form I-9s, reducing any penalty to $0. Ray Lahoud is an excellent corporate immigration lawyer.
I hired Raymond Lahoud to assist on an employer immigration matter for my company. He is a great lawyer and knows how to win. I highly recommend Raymond Lahoud.
I hired Raymond to help me in my Pennsylvania immigration matter. He was dedicated, intelligent, respectful, and knows how to win. It was a tough deportation case that involved some of the most complex if issues— and he won the case!!
Raymond Lahoud is an excellent immigration lawyer. He is hard working and cares about clients. I have hired him on a corporate immigration matter and one for a personal immigration issue and Ray always came through to help me. He serves the Lehigh Valley well and does great things for his clients. Words like dedication, intelligent come to mind when I think of Ray as an attorney. He provides the most aggressive of representation for each client. I give Raymond Lahoud the highest of marks and stars when it comes to immigration law!
Our company sought the legal services of Raymond Lahoud following an investigation by federal immigration officials about our hiring practices. Attorney Lahoud defended us with incredible knowledge, experience, dedication, vigor, creativity, wit, and ability to act on his legal feet like no person i have ever seen. Through his representation, we were successful in our defense and our company only continues today because of Raymond Lahoud. i strongly recommend Raymond Lahoud.
I hired Attorney Lahoud for a U visa where I was the victim of a brutal assault. I was afraid and did not know what to do. I already had a deportation order, and was facing deportation after I was picked up by immigration. Attorney Lahoud secured my release and was able to work through years of my case history to get down to the bottom of it, and bring it to a resolution. I am now a lawful permanent resident and can apply for citizenship next years. Thank you Raymond Lahoud.
I write to thank Attorney Raymond Lahoud for the excellent immigration representation he offered me. He is hard working and really care so much about clients. He goes in to cases to win, is aggressive in representing clients, and is one of the only lawyers I have ever dealt with that is able to communicate to clients in a way that makes clients feel comfortable, with a knowledge that everything will work out. I strongly recommend Raymond Lahoud.
Raymond Lahoud is a tremendous employment immigration lawyer. I hired Attorney Lahoud for an immigration matter where I was facing the closing of my company because an I-9 audit. Raymond saved my company. He was able to remediate our entire I-9 compliance process and led the fight to secure no fines for our company. He is an excellent immigration attorney and I strongly recommend him.
I hired Raymond Lahoud to help me in a tough deportation case for my brother and he saved his life. My brother was facing torture if was sent back to our country and Attorney Lahoud put such a good case together. We won like it was the easiest thing ever for him, because he Attorney Lahoud is a natural at being a lawyer. I strongly recommend him for all immigration issues. You can trust him.
My brother was arrested by immigration and we had little hope because of past immigration problems. I went to 4 lawyers before who turned me away. Raymond listened to me, looked at the case, and gave us options. We believed in him and Raymond fought like a master lawyer. He is so good and we won our case. My brother is a permanent resident now because of Raymond and our entire family thanks him. We love our lawyer Raymond Lahoud.
Our company hired Attorney Lahoud when we were faced with a shocking, random immigration audit for our employees. Our records were a mess and we were looking at over $200k in fines. We hired Attorney Lahoud as soon as immigration came to our company and he jumped right into the role as our immigration attorney, put a stop to everything, and was able to conduct remediation of our Form I-9s, reducing any penalty to $0. Ray Lahoud is an excellent corporate immigration lawyer.