Emily A. White

Director, Immigration Department

Emily is an immigration attorney representing organizations, companies, and individuals in a broad range of immigration matters. Her employment-based immigration practice includes obtaining Conrad 30 waivers for physicians, H-1B visas for professionals, E-2 visas for treaty investors, L visas for intercompany transfers, National Interest Waiver petitions (EB-2), Professional Labor Certifications (PERM), and all ancillary and derivative petitions. Emily enjoys working with organizations of all sizes in strategic planning and managing the various visa needs of its foreign-born workers. She also enjoys working with individuals and families in obtaining green cards through family-based immigration processes. Having litigated a broad range of legal issues before the Immigration Court and appeals to the higher courts, Emily enjoys mentoring attorneys in complex immigration cases.

Emily is active in both the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and the National Association of Foreign Student Advisors (NAFSA). Emily is fluent in Spanish.

Prior to joining Orr & Reno, Emily practiced with an immigration law group at the Manchester office of a New Hampshire firm. She previously practiced exclusively in immigration law for a decade in Colorado, where she was named a top immigration lawyer by 5280 Magazine in Denver.

A native of New Hampshire’s Lakes Region, Emily enjoys swimming, kayaking, skating, skiing, and hiking, and she is generally accompanied in these activities by her young daughters.

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