Phone: 212-796-8856 Email: kkalmykov@klaskolaw.com Industries Served: Investors Healthcare Entertainment Athetics Manufacturing Pharmaceutical Scientific Community (Researchers, Scientists) Technology Universities

Kate Kalmykov focuses her practice on business immigration and compliance. She represents clients in a wide-range of employment based immigrant and non-immigrant visa matters including professionals, managers and executives, artists and entertainers, treaty investors and traders, persons of extraordinary ability, outstanding researchers/ professors and national interest waivers. In addition, Kate assists clients with obtaining J-1 waivers of the two-year home country residence requirement.

Kate has extensive experience in preparing both individual and Regional Center EB-5 immigrant petitions for investors. She regularly develops creative immigration solutions for high net worth individuals, entrepreneurs and start-up companies investing in the United States.

In addition, Kate regularly works with various human resources departments on I-9 employment verification matters. Kate regularly counsels employers on due diligence issues including I-9 and H-1B internal audits and reviews, as well as minimization of exposure and liabilities in government investigations.

Kate also provides assistance in naturalization and family based immigration matters and has been instrumental in resolving security name check delays for adjustment of status and naturalization applicants through the filing of mandamus actions in federal district court.

Prior to joining Klasko, Rulon, Stock & Seltzer, LLP, Kate worked in the Tyson's Corner office of Greenberg Traurig, LLP.

Speeches:

• Organizer and Moderator, ABA Section of Litigation, Immigration Litigation Committee, Avoiding Securities Pitfalls When Advising EB-5 Clients, Lunch and Learn Teleconference (May 2011)
• Speaker, Rutgers University, Immigration Options for Students After Graduation (March 2011)
• Speaker, New York University, Immigration Options for Students After Graduation (March 2011)
• Speaker, American Immigration Lawyers Association, EB-5 Investors & Regional Centers Conference: Emerging Issues & Winning Strategies For Your Clients and Your Practice (March 2011)
• Speaker, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, Immigration Opportunities for Clinicians and Post Doctoral Researchers (February 2011)
• Speaker, American Immigration Lawyers Association, Midyear CLE Conference “It’s the Economy Stupid!”, Poor Return on Investment- E-1s, E-2s, EB-5s and the Economy (January 2011)
• Speaker, Columbia University, Immigration Options for Students After Graduation (January 2011)
• Interviewee, China Stock TV, a division of the FuDong Cultural Dissemination Company, LTD, Topic: EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program (November 2010)
• Speaker, American Bar Association, Administrative Law Conference, The Impact of Immigration Law: What Every Lawyer Should Know (November 2010)
• Speaker, American Immigration Lawyers Association, Investing in America- Making EB-5 Work for Your Clients and Your Practice, Preparing the EB-5 Case- Practice Tips and Documentation (August 2010)
• Speaker, Columbia Business School, Introduction to U.S. Immigration for the International Business Person (June 2010)
• Speaker, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Immigration Options for Clinicians and Post Doctoral Researchers (March 2010)
• Speaker, The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, The World of Immigration: Options for Entertainers (March 2010)
• Speaker, American Immigration Lawyers Association, New York Chapter, Employer Compliance and Worksite Enforcement (March 2010)
• Speaker, The New York Academy of Sciences in conjunction with Science Alliance, Navigating Immigration and Visa Issues: A Primer for Postdocs and Young Scientists (March 2010)
• Speaker, Columbia University, Immigration Options After Graduation (March 2010)
• Speaker, Columbia University Medical Center, Immigration Opportunities for Clinicians and Post Doctoral Researchers (February 2010)
• Speaker, Yale University, Immigration Considerations for a Post-Yale World (November 2009)
• Speaker, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Post-Student Years: Immigration Options (November 2009)
• Speaker, Yale University, School of Management, Visa and Permanent Residence Options for the Entrepreneurial Student (November 2009)
• Speaker, American Bar Association, 2009 Section of Litigation Annual Conference, AVOID GETTING ICE'D: What In-House Counsel and Companies Need to Know about Immigration, I-9s & E-Verify (April 2009)
• Speaker, Columbia University Business School, The Impact of the Recession on the Foreign National Community (April 2009)
• Speaker, New York Academy of Sciences, Alliance Online: U.S. Visas and Immigration (April 2009)
• Speaker, Columbia University, Post OPT: Immigration Options for Foreign Students (April 2009)
• Speaker, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Post OPT: Immigration Options for Foreign Students (November 2008)
• Speaker, Columbia University, Post Student Years: Immigration Options (November 2008)
• Speaker, New York University, Immigration Options for Foreign Students, (October 2008)

Publications and Presentations:

• Jill E. Family, Geoffrey Forney, Jennifer Hermansky, Aliza Hochman, Kate Kalmykov, and Adam Rosen, “Immigration and Naturalization,” Developments in Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice 2010, American Bar Association. Kate discusses the impact of the December 2009 Neufeld memorandum on EB-5 adjudications (July 2011).
• Immigration Announces Plans to Crackdown on Employers: Will Your Company Be the Next Target? www.ValleyPallet.com (April 25, 2011)
• Foreign Investment: A Path to Permanent Residence Through Job Creation, American Immigration Lawyers Association: VOICE (March/April 2011)
• USCIS Issues New I-9 Guidance: What's All the Fuss About? The Legal Intelligencer (March 2011)
• Interviewed by Chinese Television, a source of correct information, best practices and issues of concern on the EB-5 visa Immigrant Investor Program from professional practitioners not filtered through the Chinese agent / broker market. (December 2010)
• Featured in the EB-5 Visa News, Attorneys Contribute Many New EB5 Visa Articles to EB5info.com (August 2010)
• U.S. Immigration Services Revamps E-Verify with Mixed Results, The Legal Intelligencer (June 2010)
• Immigration Obligations in Times of Economic Downturn: Consequences of Workforce Changes Involving Foreign Nationals, Business Law Today, (January/ February 2010)
• Co-Author, Immigration Compliance Vital to Avoid Fines, Criminal Sanctions, Nation's Restaurant News (December 2009)
• Employers Prepare for Investigations After Internal ICE Memo Became Public, The Legal Intelligencer (October 2009)
• An Overview of the Changing Definition of Specialized Knowledge, Volume XI, Issue 1 of the Immigration & Naturalization Committee Newsletter, a publication of the American Bar Association, Section of International Law (Summer 2009)
• Co-Author, Immigration and Nationality Law: 2008 Year in Review, The International Lawyer Volume 43 Number 2, a publication of the American Bar Association, Section of International Law (Summer 2009)
• Downsizing and Layoffs: Immigration Strategies for Employers, The Legal Intelligencer (March 2009)
• Restrictions on the L-1B Visa and what this Means for Employers and the Economy, The Legal Intelligencer (October 2008)
• Co-Author, Operators, Be Prepared for New Immigration Regulations: Don't Let Your Business Be Caught Off Guard As Government Officials Crack Down With "No-Match" Letters, Nation's Restaurant News (September 2007)
• Co-Author, "No Match" Regulation Will Have Monumental Impact, Employment Law 360 (August 2007)
• Contributor, Immigration Compliance: Are You Next?, Builder/Architect Magazine (March 2007)