Joseph Grasmick

About Joseph Grasmick

U.S. Immigration for Canadian Businesses & Professionals. Awards: AV JUDICIAL, highest possible ethics/ability-rated since 1994. Who\'s Who.In the East.In American Law.Emerging Leaders. Language Ability: Spanish: Excellent; Guaraní: Good.International Field Experience: Paraguay: 5 years; Argentina & ; Mexico: 1 yr. each; Puerto Rico, Ecuador, Perú: 3 months each; Guatemala, Chile, Brazil, Uruguay, Colombia, Bolivia, Panama, Dominican Republic, Great Britain, France, Switzerland, Spain, Germany, Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Virgin Islands, Guyana, Haiti, Netherlands, Thailand, Venezuela, India, Micronesia, New Zealand, Belize: less than 3 mos each.Selected Publications: Grasmick\'s TN Handbook for Canadians-How to Work in the U.S. Under NAFTA. 900+ page reference. Available at BORDER REPORT. Monthly newsletter by subscription.(Send message to j••••••••@yahoogroups.com )Canada-U.S. Business Immigration Handbook, Carswell, Toronto, Ontario (Canada). 700+ page treatise, and semi-annual updates.(1991 - Strategy for U.S. Expansion, Business Quarterly, London Ontario Canada (Summer 1989).The Immigration Angle (five part series), Erie County Bar Bulletin, Buffalo:Erie County Bar Association (September 1984-January 1985).Immigration into Canada Under the Immigration Act of 1976: A Practical Overview, with Mendel M. Green, American Bar Association, Canadian Law Newsletter, Vol. January 1983.(Comparative law)U.S. Immigration for Businesses, Investors and Workers,(hardcover) with Gellman and Cohen, Buffalo: William S. Hein (1981). Land and the Forest-Dwelling South American Indian: The Role of National Law, Buffalo: Buffalo Law Review. V 27 N 4.(1979) & reprinted by the Land Tenure Center, Madison, Wisconsin.(Comparative law)Specialties: Business Immigration; putting together the deal between employer and employee.Consultations arranged at

Experience

1. Owner

   Law Office Of Joseph C. Grasmick

   Feb 1979 — Present · Buffalo, NY, US

   U.S. Business Immigration for Canadian Professionals. Business immigration pioneer, then early NAFTA immigration specialist. Scores of Canadian government NEBS (New Exporters to Border States) presentations. Writes the world\'s only book on NAFTA TN immigration for Canadians.Anthropologist & and comparative law expert on a team responding to the Bhopal gas tragedy after December 2-3 1984.

Education

• University at Buffalo School of Law

  Doctor of Law - JD, Law, cum laude

  1975

• University at Buffalo

  Master of Arts (MA) Social and Cultural Anthropology; Also achieved PhD/ABD (all but dissertation), Anthropology

  1975

• State University of New York at Fredonia

  BA, Dean’s List, Political Science

  1968

• University of Houston Law Center

  Intensive full-time summer, part of overall JD program, Comparative law-Mexican law

Skills

• Human Rights
• Nonprofits
• Cross-Border Transactions
• Editing
• International Relations
• International Business
• Mountaineering
• Cultural Anthropology
• Canada
• Comparative Law
• Writing
• International Development
• Research
• Immigration
• Latin America
• Non-Profits
• International Project Management
• Rock Climbing
• Visas
• Grassroots Development
• Environmental Sanitation
• Cross-Cultural
• Legal Research
• Spanish
• High Altitude Mountaineering
• Immigration Law
• Legal Writing
• Legal Assistance
• Wildflower Identification
• Legal Anthropology
• Environmental
• International Law
• Public Speaking
• International Trade
• Hiking
• Naturalization
• U.s. Immigration
• Nafta
• Employment-Based Immigration