Immigration services at NELSON & SMITH, LLP include: Family-Based Immigration, V Visas and K Visas, Employment-Based Immigration – EB1, EB2, EB3, EB4, EB5, Non-Immigrant Visas – H-1B, Student F1/J1, Artists and Athletes, Asylum, Deportation and other immigration services.

As an immigration attorney, Philip advises clients on all aspects of U.S. immigration and naturalization law, and he represents them in proceedings before the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Labor, the Immigration Courts and U.S. Embassies, abroad. In addition, Philip litigates complex immigration-related matters in federal court.

Philip is a member of the State Bars of Tennessee and Oregon, the Federal District Court of Oregon, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court. He is also a member in good standing of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). Philip has twice served as AILA’s Oregon Chapter Chair and he is a past member of AILA’s Board of Governors. In addition, Philip currently serves on AILA’s Political Asylum Committee.