Becki Young, founding Partner, is a seasoned business immigration attorney with three decades of experience in the field.
Becki regularly provides immigration law advice to clients in a broad range of industries, including investment banking and securities, information technology (with a particular focus on startups), nonprofit, manufacturing, and healthcare. She boasts extensive experience with investment cases (E2 and EB5) for individual investors and startup companies as well as extraordinary ability cases for clients in business, science, and the arts. She also advises clients about global (outbound) immigration, employer compliance, and international travel/entry issues.
Becki is especially well known for her immigration work with hospitality employers. She has represented more than 100 of the world’s most prominent hotels and restaurants, and facilitated the sponsorship of foreign trainees, interns, professionals, and individuals of extraordinary ability.
Becki’s depth of experience and knowledge of the intricate immigration landscape enable her to utilize a wide array of immigration solutions to serve her clients with a responsive and client-centric approach, for which she has received many accolades. She has guided numerous foreign nationals through the permanent residency process and has counseled U.S. employers on international recruitment and immigration issues. In addition to her work with employment-based clients, Becki has assisted many family-based applicants with complex U.S. immigration matters.
Previously, as Of Counsel with Baker & McKenzie in Washington, DC, Becki was a senior member of the firm’s Global Immigration & Mobility Practice. While there, she oversaw the provision of global immigration services to some of the world’s largest companies. Prior to joining Baker & McKenzie, Becki managed her own immigration law practice, focusing on employment-based immigration law.
Becki is an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), serving on various committees and mentoring lawyers around the U.S. on business immigration issues. She frequently speaks at legal, business and hospitality conferences, and regularly contributes insight through published articles and commentary. Her engaging personality, extensive experience, and intricate knowledge of immigration issues enable her to address complex immigration issues in a clear, straightforward manner.
