Frances Hayden is of counsel to Peter Law Group where she provides advice and legal services to Peter Law Group clients who are seeking representation in matters involving United States Immigration Law and Consular Processing of Visas of all types.
Ms. Hayden has spent her professional career helping clients achieve their immigration objectives. Prior to beginning the practice of Immigration Law, she worked in the area of Entertainment Labor Law. Once she began her immigration practice,
Ms. Hayden worked in all areas of immigration, including Removal Defense, Asylum, Labor Certifications, Resident Applications for Multi-National Executives, Artists and Entertainers, and Professional and unskilled workers, as well as Family-Based Immigration.
She has handled all varieties of non-immigrant immigration applications for applicants of all types, including Representatives of Foreign Media, Temporary Workers under Nafta, and other free trade treaties, H-1B Specialty Workers, Nonimmigrant Investors, Students, and Applicants for visas based on Extraordinary Ability.
For much of her career as an immigration attorney, Ms. Hayden has focused on consular processing of non- immigrant visas at U.S. Embassies and Consulates worldwide, with a special emphasis on third-country national visa processing. Ms. Hayden is on top of all current visa regulations and ongoing policy changes at multiple U.S. consular posts worldwide. For several years, she co-authored the chapters on visa processing in Mexico City, Guatemala City, and Seoul, South Korea for “The Visa Processing Guide,” a useful practical handbook for other immigration attorneys to use in the area of consular processing.
She has been a featured speaker and moderator at numerous immigration-oriented conferences, including the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), National Conferences on topics such as “Consular Processing Tips: What Works and What Doesn’t”, and Legal Education Seminars offered by such organizations as Immigration Lawyers on the Web (ILW) dealing with broad-ranging subjects like “What’s New in Consular Processing, NIVs, IVs, and Waivers,” as well as “Business Immigration in the Era of Enforcement.”
Ms. Hayden is fluent in Spanish.
