Angelo A. Paparelli is a Partner in Vialto Law (US) PLLC, practicing all aspects of employment-based immigration from Los Angeles, California, including immigration compliance and defense of employers, and the immigration consequences of mergers, acquisitions and other forms of corporate restructuring. He is a past member of the Board of Governors of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), a past member of the Board of Trustees of the American Immigration Counsel, on the editorial boards of the AILA Law Journal and Bender’s Immigration Bulletin, and the recipient of AILA’s Edith Lowenstein Award for Advancing the Practice of Immigration Law. He is ranked Band 1 in Chambers USA, Chambers Global, Legal 500 and the Who’s Who of Corporate Immigration Lawyers, the founder and a past president of the Alliance of Business Immigration Lawyers (www.abil.com), an elected Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, and a blogger since 2004 at www.nationofimmigrators.com. He can be reached at angelo.paparelli@vialto.com.