Manifest Law

Immigration Strategy Attorney – Consultations Only

Manifest Law

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $140,000 - $190,000 per year

About the role

  • Conduct consultations with prospective clients and provide clear, confident explanations of Manifest’s services and process.
  • Evaluate prospective clients for extraordinary ability and high-skilled immigration pathways, including EB-1A, EB-2 NIW, O-1A, and related categories.
  • Communicate in a way that feels calm, professional, and supportive, even when clients are anxious or unfamiliar with immigration terminology.
  • Explain complex legal concepts in simple, accessible language to clients from diverse backgrounds and countries.
  • Review client information during consultations, assess viability, and classify case strength (e.g., strong / moderate / weak / unclear).
  • Identify key indicators of high potential (e.g., strong publications, awards, high-profile work, strong salary, press, critical roles, membership, judging, original contributions).
  • Identify common red flags, missing information, credibility issues, or factors that weaken case strategy.
  • Provide clear next-step guidance, including whether a client should proceed, reposition, or not move forward.
  • Make strong, fast judgment calls on fit and communicate decisions with clarity and empathy.
  • Capture clear consultation notes and recommendations in the firm’s systems.
  • Ensure lead data is complete and consistent for follow-up and downstream workflow.
  • Maintain clean records so nothing falls through the cracks.
  • Track and flag high-priority candidates or time-sensitive cases.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of law practice experience, with significant exposure to U.S. business immigration.
  • Strong working knowledge of extraordinary ability and high-skilled categories, including EB-1A, EB-2 NIW, O-1A, and related strategies.
  • Fast learner. You keep up with changing government policies and can quickly identify a proposed policy’s or regulation’s potential real-life impacts to applicants.
  • Deep comfort assessing candidacy quickly and accurately across a wide range of professional profiles.
  • Exceptional communication skills. You are crisp, warm, confident, and highly articulate.
  • Strong judgment and triage ability: you can quickly interpret a profile, assess case strength, and recommend the right next step.
  • Highly personable and emotionally intelligent. You know how to build trust quickly and make clients feel heard.
  • Ability to clearly explain complex legal ideas in simple language to clients.
  • Organized and reliable.
  • Comfortable working in a high-volume consultation environment.
  • Ability to work independently, maintain professionalism, and represent the firm with polish and confidence.
Benefits
  • Join a high-performing team reimagining how immigration law gets done
  • Build deep relationships with attorneys who treat you as a strategic partner
  • Work remotely, flexibly, and with autonomy
  • Be part of a mission-driven company helping world-class talent live and work in the U.S.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
U.S. business immigrationextraordinary ability categorieshigh-skilled immigration categoriesEB-1AEB-2 NIWO-1Acase assessmentlegal concept explanationconsultation note-takingdata management
Soft skills
communication skillsjudgmenttriage abilityemotional intelligencetrust-buildingorganizationreliabilityindependenceprofessionalismclient empathy