Vic Goel is the Managing Partner of Goel & Anderson, LLC.  His practice includes strategic immigration planning concerning the recruitment and hiring of international professionals, skilled technicians, managers, executives, and students.  His clientele includes multinational information technology companies, telecommunications providers, biotech and engineering firms, financial services firms, manufacturing entities, and luxury hotel chains that rely on international personnel to meet their staffing needs worldwide.  By adopting an enterprise-wide approach to handling a client’s needs, Vic focuses on the development of management plans to allow companies to hire international staff in a timely and cost-effective manner.  His innovative style has allowed him to devise immigration strategies that have resulted in savings of millions of dollars and untold man-hours for his clients. 

Vic is an active speaker and writer on immigration law.  He has been interviewed on immigration issues by the NBC Nightly News, and his articles and quotations have appeared in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, CNN.com, ComputerWorld magazine, SiliconIndia magazine, the Times of India, India Abroad, and others.  Vic has also appeared as a featured and keynote speaker on immigration issues at industry meetings and trade association conferences nationally and internationally.  He has also been selected for inclusion in The International Who’s Who of Corporate Immigration Lawyers, a publication that conducts research to identify the preeminent lawyers in the field.

Vic is a longtime member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the Technology Association of America's Immigration Policy Committee, the Compete America coalition, and the International Bar Association.  He also provides routine advisory information on U.S. immigration matters to the National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM), which is the largest information technology trade association in India.

Vic is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Pennsylvania.

Areas of Interest

• H-1B visas
• L-1 visas
• E visas
• Labor Certification and Permanent Residence
• Immigrant and Nonimmigrant visa waivers
• Corporate Immigration Compliance
• Legislative Advocacy
• Consular Practice

Education

• J.D., The American University, Washington College of Law, 1993
  • The American University Law Review
• B.A., Government and Politics, George Mason University, 1990

Professional Memberships

• American Immigration Lawyers Association
  • CIS Ombudsman Liaison Committee, 2007-present (Chair, 2008-2009)
  • Business Immigration Committee, 2003-2006, 2008-present
  • Vermont Service Center Liaison Committee, 2004-2006

• Information Technology Assn. of America
  • Immigration Policy Committee
• Society for Human Resource Management
• Compete America Coalition
• International Bar Association