With more than 10 years’ experience in employment law and family-based immigration and corporate immigration policy development, Lisa Hansen offers strategic guidance to international employees and companies traversing the immigration process.
Lisa is skilled in analyzing individual cases and assisting business entities with various immigration-related needs. She has experience handling novel cases, including P nonimmigrant visa petitions for culturally unique artists and entertainers and professional athletes; O-1 visa petitions for extraordinary ability individuals in the sciences, arts and athletics; and O-2 support status. She has focused experience with PERM case preparation, process development, and analysis, and has been successful with the PERM reconsideration and appeal processes.
Lisa is also well-versed at advising on case strategy for a variety of nonimmigrant and immigrant applications, as well as employer support presentation and evidence for H-1B, TN, and O-1, and EB-1 and 2 petitions.
Lisa assists with the review and analysis of public and private corporate financial statements and corporate governance documents to ensure compliance with federal immigration law while also providing individualized policy considerations and solutions. She helps guide corporate clients through I-9 record reviews, on-site maintenance, and federal immigration law compliance.
Before joining Barnes & Thornburg, Lisa assisted clients in securing 212(e) waiver approvals, new office L-1 intracompany transfer visas, TN visa status, and E-2 investor visa approval, working in western New York. Subsequently she practiced with a Boston-based firm where she worked on securing lawful U.S. immigration status for individuals working in a wide variety of fields including banking, finance, computer science, law, engineering, and biomedical and life sciences.
During her time in Boston, Lisa was a competitive elite rower at the national and international levels. She also trained, traveled and competed with the U.S. National Team as a resident athlete at the U.S. Olympic Committee training venue in California and at the U.S. National Team Training Center in New Jersey and competed in the 2004 U.S. Olympic trials.
A frequent speaker, Lisa has been involved with multiple local American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) chapters, has spoken at elementary schools on the topic of U.S. immigration, and served in leadership roles with the Young Lawyers Committees of AILA New England and Western New York. She also co-led the AILA Indiana Chapter in securing its first national student winner of the American Immigration Lawyers Foundation (AILF) 5th grade Creative Writing Essay contest.
Lisa is not regularly admitted to practice in the local courts of Indiana.
