Attorney - Rafael Tirado-Ramos

Rafael Tirado-Ramos focuses his practice in International Trade & Business and Immigration. Mr. Tirado-Ramos is licensed both in Arizona and Mexico. His focus is offering sophisticated legal services with an emphasis in business.

Mr. Tirado-Ramos provides a full range of immigration law services to businesses, schools, health care institutions and individuals. Services include preparation and submission of applications for non-immigrant visas such as the B-1 (business), TN (Trade NAFTA), H-1B (foreign professional worker), L-1 (intracompany transferee), student and investor visas, and for all the various applications for permanent resident status ("green card"). He assists small and multinational corporations to hire or transfer professional personnel and assist hospitals to secure waivers of foreign residency requirements. He also assists foreign investors in obtaining the E-2 Treaty Investor Visa.

Mr. Tirado-Ramos provides a wide range of International Law and Real Estate Law services in any of the 32 Mexican States, such as:

1. selecting the property to purchase and develop;
2. performing the initial title search;
3. hospitality issues, obtaining licenses and permits;
4. construction, corporate, tax and labor issues;
5. title insurance; and
6. escrow agreements.

Mr. Tirado-Ramos has experience handling and implementing bi-national corporate structures making it easy to operate both in Mexico and the United States.

Current Employment Position(s):

Associate

Areas of Practice:

International Law & International Trade
Foreign Investment
Immigration Law
Business Law
Mexican Law
Purchase of Real Estate in Mexico

Bar Admissions:

Arizona, 2004
Mexico, 2000
U.S. District Court District of Arizona, 2004

Education:

University of Arizona College of Law, Tucson, Arizona, 2002
LL.M. in International Trade Law
Universidad de Monterrey, Garza Garcia, N.L., Mexico, 2000
Mexican Law Degree (J.D. Equivalent)

Professional Associations and Memberships:

CARTAGRO, Sonora, Mexico - Board Member
Arizona State Bar Association
Mexican Federal Bar Association
Maricopa County Bar Association
Sonora-Arizona Commission of the Sonora, Mexico State Government
Fundacion Mexico
Arizona Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

Past Employment Positions:

America Work Visa, Inc., Business Immigration Company, Washington, D.C., Vice President, 2004 - 2005
Garcia Sierra & Asociados, Monterrey, Mexico, Associate Attorney, 2000 - 2001

Languages:

English
Spanish

Birth Information:

1977, Ciudad Obregon, Mexico