Richards and Jurusik Immigration Lawyers

Focus and practice areas

The about page describes work kept to one field. Richards and Jurusik Immigration Lawyers works on immigration law, and the firm states that this is the whole of what it does. Its clients include individuals, families and businesses who want to live or work in the United States.

The services the firm names cover employment-based immigration, temporary work visas, employment-sponsored green cards, family-based immigration and immigration business plans. Immigration business plans, one of those services, support visa cases that turn on a company's growth and hiring, such as some investor and treaty categories. In my opinion, that range points to a firm set up for the full immigration process. The office is in Buffalo, New York, which places it near the Canadian border and the flow of people and business that crosses there.

How the team is built

The site names five attorneys. Jeremy L. Richards, Christine Jurusik and Siana McLean are the partners. Rebecca Kroll and Brandon Beasley are the associates. Two of those names sit in the firm's own branding, which points to their place at its center.

The firm states that its attorneys hold decades of combined immigration experience. A three-partner structure with two associates gives the firm room to split matters by type. In immigration work, associates commonly prepare filings and assemble evidence while partners take the hearings and set strategy. That suits a field where visa filings and courtroom work run on different clocks, and where a single case can need both.

Work visas and cross-border cases

The firm handles E, H-1B, L-1, O-1 and TN visa matters. Each covers a different kind of worker. E visas fit treaty traders and investors. An L-1 moves staff from a company's overseas office to a United States one. O-1 status applies to people with a strong record in their field. TN status is open to certain Canadian and Mexican professionals, and the firm names TN applications for both.

Its home page lists a Buffalo contact and a Toronto contact, which fits a client base that moves between the two countries. Work visa cases usually run on employer sponsorship and fixed filing windows. An H-1B petition, for one, follows a set annual cycle and a cap in most years. As a reviewer, I read the firm's mix of these categories as coverage for several employment situations, including company transfers under L-1 and individual petitions under O-1.

What the visa work involves

Each of these petitions carries its own paperwork and its own decision-maker. Employer-sponsored visas ask for proof of the job, the company and the worker's qualifications. A denial or a request for more evidence can add months. A firm that files these often builds a routine for the documents each category needs, which is where steady immigration-only work tends to pay off for clients.

Family petitions and citizenship

The firm works on green cards for spouses and family members, K-1 fiance visas, citizenship and naturalization. Visa waivers also appear among its services. Green cards for spouses can run through either a United States consulate abroad or an adjustment of status inside the country, and the right path depends on where the family member is. These are the routes most people use to join relatives or to settle for good.

Family-based petitions move through set stages: a petition to establish the relationship, a wait tied to visa availability, then an interview in most cases. A K-1 visa brings a fiance to the United States for a marriage that must happen within ninety days, after which the spouse applies to adjust status. Naturalization has its own steps, including a residence requirement and a civics test. A firm that groups these under one roof can stay with a client across a marriage-based filing and a later citizenship application.

Removal defense and appeals

The firm takes on deportation and removal defense, affirmative asylum, Board of Immigration Appeals matters and immigration delay litigation. This is the contested side of immigration work, where a case can land in front of a judge or a review body.

Removal defense plays out in immigration court, where an attorney argues to keep a person in the country. Affirmative asylum starts with an application from someone already inside the United States, and it usually carries a one-year deadline from their arrival. An asylum officer then interviews the applicant. Appeals to the Board of Immigration Appeals review decisions from the courts below. Immigration delay litigation often takes the form of a mandamus action, which asks a federal court to order a decision on a case that has sat without one. In my opinion, keeping all four together gives the firm a way to move a case between forums as it develops.

How clients work with the firm

The firm holds consultations in person or by video, so clients outside Buffalo can still meet the attorneys. Video meetings suit a firm with Buffalo and Toronto contacts, where a client may sit on the Canadian side while the case runs through United States immigration channels. It publishes a flat-rate fee model, so the billing approach is fixed per matter and set out before the work starts. For immigration clients, who often plan years ahead, a known billing structure helps with the wait that these cases carry.

Its published profiles include Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube, which give prospective clients another place to see the firm's material. The office is in Buffalo, New York, and the firm lists both a United States and a Canadian contact for the people who reach it from either side of the border.

Employment matters across different stages

The published service list places temporary work status and employment-sponsored permanent residence within the same practice. That connection matters for companies whose immigration needs change over time. A business may first need counsel for a worker in one of the listed temporary visa categories, then later consider an employment-sponsored green card. Richards and Jurusik also includes immigration business plans among its services, adding a document-focused component for business cases that require one.

The category list is fairly precise. E, H-1B, L-1, O-1 and TN matters appear by name, while employment-based immigration and sponsored green cards provide broader headings. This reviewer finds that level of detail useful because prospective clients can see whether the firm identifies their visa category before contacting the office. The separate reference to immigration business plans also shows that the work extends to supporting materials in qualifying cases.

Office and telephone details

The directory gives the firm's full street address as 5 Niagara Square. That is more useful for an in-person client than a general Buffalo location because it identifies the specific office destination for a scheduled consultation. The address also gives businesses and individual clients a fixed point of contact when correspondence requires a physical destination.

Two telephone numbers are listed: (716) 970-4007 and (866) 697-1832. The first provides a Buffalo-area contact number, while the second gives callers another direct route to the firm. Publishing both numbers can help separate local access from calls that originate elsewhere. It also gives a prospective client an alternative if one line is unavailable.

These contact details add practical information to the service descriptions. Immigration matters often begin with a question about category fit, document needs or whether the firm accepts a particular type of case. A precise office address and two published phone numbers give prospective clients clear ways to start that inquiry. The record does not assign either number to a particular attorney or service, so callers would need the firm to direct them to the appropriate person.