HSD - Help Secure Defend - Immigration Lawyer, LLC

Focus and practice areas

Immigration is the only field this Chicago firm takes on. HSD Immigration Lawyer handles U.S. immigration matters across employment, investment, family, humanitarian and citizenship categories. The legal name spells out the acronym: HSD - Help Secure Defend - Immigration Lawyer, LLC.

Employment cases make up a large share of the listed work. The firm represents employers on EB-1, EB-2 and EB-3 green cards, PERM labor certification applications, and nonimmigrant petitions including H-1B, L-1, TN, O, P and R. EB-4 filings appear on the practice menu as well.

Family cases sit alongside that work. HSD handles family-sponsored petitions, marriage-based cases, and K visas for fiancées. Naturalization and citizenship applications are part of the same group.

Options for investors and entrepreneurs

E-1 and E-2 treaty filings appear on the firm's list, along with New Company L-1A petitions for executives opening a U.S. arm of a foreign business. EB-5 investor green cards round out that category. Someone weighing a U.S. venture will find several distinct routes covered here.

In my opinion, that grouping matters more than it might look. Investment immigration and employment immigration draw on overlapping rules, and a firm doing both keeps the same body of knowledge in use across cases.

Humanitarian filings and defense work

Asylum claims, U visas and VAWA petitions are all listed practice areas. The firm also prepares waiver applications, which often decide whether an otherwise strong case can move forward.

Removal defense and judicial review appear on the same menu. HSD appears before immigration courts, the Board of Immigration Appeals and the Administrative Appeals Office. It also litigates adverse USCIS decisions in federal court, which puts the firm in a different posture than filing alone.

Where the firm appears

The list of forums the firm names is unusually specific for a website. It covers agencies of the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Labor and the Department of State, plus USCIS field offices and BALCA. That range tracks the practice areas described elsewhere on the site.

Employer compliance work

HSD counsels corporate clients on worksite compliance. It represents employers during Wage and Hour Division audits and I-9 investigations.

This is a different service from petition filing, and it points to ongoing relationships with employers. A company that sponsors visas carries recordkeeping duties long after an approval arrives. Having the same firm handle both sides keeps the compliance picture consistent.

How the team is built

Rabindra K Singh is the founder and managing attorney. Karishma Sharma works as an immigration paralegal and Hayley Atlas as an immigration legal assistant. The firm's site names three people in total.

Singh's published work is documented on the about page. He wrote a book chapter for the ILW PERM Book, 2017-2018 Edition, and has contributed articles to Law360, the New Jersey Law Journal and ILW's Immigration Daily. Writing for a PERM reference volume points to sustained attention to labor certification, which is among the more procedural corners of employment immigration.

He has litigated USCIS decisions in U.S. District Courts and obtained approvals and settlements for corporate and individual clients. Federal court practice is a meaningful addition for an immigration firm. Many filings stall at the agency level, and going to district court is the step that unsticks some of them.

What a small team means in practice

Three named staff members means a client is likely to deal with Singh directly on substantive questions. Paralegal and legal assistant support handles document flow on filings that run heavy on paperwork. PERM and EB-5 cases in particular generate long records.

Geographic reach

The firm keeps offices in six locations across three states. Chicago and Naperville cover Illinois. Jersey City and Clark serve New Jersey, and Raleigh and Chapel Hill cover North Carolina.

Those markets share a pattern: each has employers who sponsor foreign workers and universities that feed the H-1B and O-1 pipelines. The Research Triangle presence and the Chicago Loop office suggest the client base leans toward employment and investment matters. Immigration practice is federal, so an attorney admitted in one state can file petitions for clients anywhere, and the multi-office footprint mainly affects in-person access.

The site lists Facebook, X and LinkedIn accounts. It does not state a founding year.

What the record shows

As a reviewer, what makes this listing verifiable is the specificity of the practice descriptions. Naming BALCA, the AAO and the Wage and Hour Division tells a reader something concrete about where the firm works. Vague claims about immigration help do not.

The published writing gives an independent trace. A chapter in the ILW PERM Book and bylines in Law360 and the New Jersey Law Journal exist outside the firm's own marketing, and a prospective client can look them up.

Clients with the clearest match are employers running visa programs, investors setting up U.S. operations, and individuals whose USCIS filing has gone wrong and now needs a federal court remedy. The firm names all three groups on its own pages. Its published record on labor certification and district court litigation lines up with the first and last of them.