Joey Chbeir Lawyer Reviews & Ratings - Birmingham

Joey Chbeir concentrates his practice on advising individuals and companies establishing businesses in the United States and internationally. He relies on his international background, prior corporate experience, and linguistic skills to advise his domestic and foreign clients on their operations and day-to-day challenges. His prior experience serving as General Counsel and Director of Operations for a company in the oil and gas industry enhances his ability to fully understand the business environments in which his clients operate. Joey has lived and traveled extensively in the Middle East, and has assisted clients in the Middle East and Africa, particularly in Angola, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Liberia, Morocco, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, and the United Arab Emirates.. A seasoned immigration lawyer, Joey has a significant amount of experience assisting multinational corporations in all aspects of the immigration process, including immigration related discrimination practices and the challenges surrounding foreign workers when negotiating mergers and acquisitions, and other corporate restructurings. He works with businesses, large and small, from a vast range of industry sectors to develop streamlined preparation of visa petitions and permanent residency applications, as well as to implement efficient and thorough employment verification compliance programs. Joey helps employers acquire employment-based visas for key employees to work in the United States. His experience includes obtaining temporary, nonimmigrant work visas in the E-1, E-2, E-3, H-1B, L-1, TN, J-1, Q-1, O-1, and Blanket L categories, and permanent immigrant visas (commonly referred to as "green cards") based on the multinational executive and manager, investment, PERM labor certification, national interest waiver, extraordinary person, professional employee, and professor/researcher strategies.. Joey is fluent in English, French and Arabic, having studied the law in all three languages. He served as an Adjunct Faculty at the Lebanese American University in Beirut, Lebanon and its satellite campus in New York, and has taught international transactions and compliance courses. Joey also serves as Lebanon's Honorary Consul in Birmingham, Alabama.