Helena Tetzeli

Helena M. Tetzeli is a partner at Kurzban Kurzban Tetzeli and Pratt P.A.

Her practice focuses on employment and investment immigration and advising business and institutional clients on labor and immigration compliance and policy.

Ms. Tetzeli has a nationwide reputation as a leading immigration attorney and expert. She is frequently asked to write and speak on immigration law topics and consult or testify as an expert witness on immigration law. Her primary immigration practice areas include treaty-based visas, L and H visas, EB -5, and federal litigation challenging denials or delays in visa processing. She also represents individuals in the sciences, arts and athletics with Extraordinary Ability visas and National Interest Waivers. Her immigration clients include unions for major league professional athletes, high profile U.S. and foreign companies, individual investors and others seeking to do business, invest or immigrate here, as well as U.S. start-ups in a variety of business and industrial sectors.

In addition to her immigration law practice, Ms. Tetzeli also represents her clients in federal and state courts and in arbitration and mediation proceedings in a variety of complex commercial matters including substantial collection cases and defense of discrimination, FLSA, ADA and other employment law claims. She also advises her business and instit...