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  • University of Pittsburgh

Alexander R. Castrodale

Senior Associate
412.297.4712
 

As the senior immigration associate in the Firm’s International Business Group, Mr. Castrodale concentrates his practice in the areas of employment-based immigration, including temporary and permanent visas; family-based immigration; naturalization; and exclusion/deportation defense.

Areas of Interest:

  • Non-immigrant and immigrant visas 
  •  Labor Certification ( PERM)
  • Options and issues for healthcare workers/physicians, including 212(e) waivers of two-year home residency requirement
  • Form I-9 compliance and enforcement, including E-Verify
  • H-1B employer LCA compliance and enforcement
  • Social Security card and driver’s license assistance
  • Removal/deportation defense

Bar Admissions

  • Pennsylvania, 2002

Education

  • J.D., (Lead Articles Editor, Pittsburgh Journal of Technology Law and Policy; President and Activities Coordinator, International Law Society), University of Pittsburgh School of Law, 2002
  • B.A., International Studies/Journalism, University of Richmond, 1996

Memberships

  • Member, American Immigration Lawyers Association
  • Member, Allegheny County and Pennsylvania Bar Associations

Publications

  • Author, The Alphabet Soup of Hiring Foreign Physicians, Behavioral Healthcare (June 2006)

  •  Quoted, Area Firms, Workers Value H-1B Visas, Pittsburgh Business Times (October 28, 2005)

  • Co-author, An Overview of the New PERM Labor Certification Process, Labor & Employment, American Health Lawyers Association (Spring 2005)

  • Co-author, International Medical Graduates:  Obtaining a Waiver of the Two-Year Foreign Residency Requirement, Allegheny County Medical Society Bulletin (July 2004)

  • Co-author, Reporting Penalties and Waivers for "No-Match" Letters, Cohen & Grigsby Review (Spring 2004)

Prior Experience

  • Teaching Assistant, Legal Analysis and Writing Program, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, 2001-2002
  • Research assistant, Immigration Law, University of Pittsburgh School of Law
  • Law clerk, United States Department of Justice Executive Office for Immigration Review, New York City
  •  Paralegal, Boros & Garofalo, P.C., Washington, D.C.