Jennifer Shanley

Jennifer Shanley is an Associate at Robinson & Cole LLP (Robinson+Cole). She focuses her legal practice on U.S. immigration law, with an emphasis on business immigration matters. Jennifer helps multinational companies, health care organizations, and schools staff their U.S. offices by obtaining appropriate immigration status for employees. Her efforts allow manufacturing, chemical, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology companies (including some Fortune 100 companies), hospitals, and academic institutions to retain key business people, scientists, researchers, and other professionals. She obtains both temporary and permanent immigration status for key workers. Her practice encompasses all business-related nonimmigrant and immigrant petitions. Jennifer frequently handles multinational intracompany transfers, transfers for individuals with specialized knowledge, as well as petitions for outstanding researchers and individuals with extraordinary ability. She has helped secure immigration approvals for hundreds of employees, helping business clients attract and secure top talented individuals across a range of industries. While doing so, Jennifer uses her Six Sigma Green Belt certification to streamline the immigration process for clients, in order to decrease process variation and increase value.