About our EB-5 Visa Immigration Team
Roger A. Bernstein
Roger A Bernstein is a Florida Board Certified Immigration attorney with fifteen years of practice devoted exclusively to immigration law. He spent six years with the U.S. Department of Justice serving as an INS trial attorney, sector counsel to the INS' Inspections and Investigations Divisions and INS Asylum Officer. Since co-founding Bernstein Osberg-Braun, LLC in 1998, Mr. Bernstein has focused his practice on assisting immigrant investors, acquiring employment based visas and complex immigration litigation.
Mr. Bernstein has more than a decade of experience in the EB-5 arena; he has broad expertise in both direct and regional center investments. From analyzing the source of funds to filing the initial I526, Mr. Bernstein understands the complexities of the visa category. Bernstein had also counseled companies desiring to obtain regional center status. He has also a partner in American Life Investments, a USCIS designated regional center in Miami-Dade County.
Mr Bernstein has represented and counseled foreign governments, Fortune 500 companies and large-privately held companies. He has also successfully acquired non-immigrant visas and residency for hundreds of individuals who desired to live and work in the United States.
A graduate of Brown University and the University of Miami School of Law, Mr. Bernstein serves on the Miami-Dade County Enterprise Zone Advisory Council, the Board of the American Jewish Committee, the Great Florida Bank Advisory Board and Chair of the Florida Bar Immigration Certification Committee. He is admitted to practice law in Florida, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of the United States.
Linda Osberg-Braun
Linda Osberg-Braun draws on her years of experience as Deputy District Counsel for INS (now DHS) and her trial and criminal defense skills from her years as an Assistant Federal Public Defender in the Southern District of Florida. She is a partner and co-founder of Bernstein Osberg-Braun as well as American Life Investments, a federally designated USCIS Regional Center operating in Miami-Dade County.
Ms. Osberg graduated from Penn State University (B.S., Engineering Honors Program, 1985) and the University of Pittsburgh School of Law (J.D., 1988). She is Board certified by the Florida Bar as an expert in Immigration and Nationality Law and the immediate past-president of the American Immigration Law Association, South Florida Chapter. She serves the Unlicensed Practice of Law Committee of the Florida Bar.
Ms. Osberg enjoys speaking before immigration attorneys and corporate international attorneys regarding widespread changes in policy and the shifting national attention to immigration issues and foreign investment considerations. She lectures throughout the nation regarding the ongoing security and enforcement changes within the Department of Homeland Security. She is the recipient of the University of Pittsburgh's Marjorie Matson Award for her work helping Haitian and Cuban refugees find freedom and safety in the United States.
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Regina de Moraes
Regina de Moraes is a partner in the law firm of Bernstein Osberg-Braun & de Moraes. She has a vast array of experience in immigration matters and criminal court cases. Ms. de Moraes is a former felony prosecutor, with the Dade County State Attorneys Office. She specializes in immigration litigation with a special emphasis on waivers of removal and oversees the firm's litigation department. Ms. de Moraes is a tenacious litigator and widely considered one of the top immigration litigation attorneys in South Florida.
A graduate of the University of Miami School of Law, Ms. De Moraes’ Bar Memberships and Associations include the Florida Supreme Court and Florida Bar Association; District of Columbia Bar Court of Appeals; Washington, D.C. Bar Association; United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit; United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida; and, the American Immigration Lawyers Association.
Ms. De Moraes is fluent in Portuguese, Spanish, German and French.
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Karen Caco
Karen Caco is a leading EB-5 Regional Center lawyer and Consular Processing expert. She speaks around the world about US immigration, EB-5 Regional Center investments and EB-5 Green Cards, Business Immigration and Consular Processing. She is the only immigration attorney in the world to visit and film the various Regional Centers in the United States and as a result is extremely knowledgeable about the inner workings of Regional Centers and their projects. Ms. Caco assists investors from all over the world with their EB-5 Green Card applications and also helps form Regional Centers and obtain USCIS designation approvals for them. She works with corporations and individuals to plan their immigration strategies and travels around the world to assist with both immigrant and non-immigrant visa processing at the US Consulates and Embassies. While she is involved in all facets of immigration law, her area of concentration lies in business immigration, EB-5 Green Cards, worldwide consular assistance, L1, E2 and H-1B visas and complex appeals. She has served on the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) EB-5 committee and the executive committee for the Association to Invest in the USA (IIUSA). She has been interviewed many times by local and state newspapers on immigration issues as well as NBC and ABC.
Ms. Caco received her law degree from Widener University School of Law in Wilmington, Delaware. She is also a certified mediator, arbitrator and dispute resolutionist, having received her training and certification from Pepperdine University School of Law (Strauss Institute). She is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court and is a member in good standing of the Florida Bar and the District of Columbia (DC). Ms. Caco's Bar Memberships and Associations include the Florida Supreme Court and Florida Bar Association; District of Columbia Bar Court of Appeals; Washington, D.C. Bar Association; United States Supreme Court; the American Bar Association; and the United States District Court for the Middle district of Florida.
Tatiana Bessonova
Tatiana Bessonova is an attorney at Bernstein Osberg-Braun & de Moraes. She is admitted to practice in the state of Florida and represents clients in immigration related matters, concentrating her practice on: family-based adjustment, naturalization, political asylum, criminal defense, removal & deportation defense, Bond Motions, Motions to Reopen, and other immigration related matters.
Prior to joining Bernstein Osberg-Braun & de Moraes Ms. Bessonova spent three years working for the Department of Homeland Security.
Ms. Bessonova speaks fluent Russian.
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Hector R. Galeano
Hector Galeano is an associate attorney at Bernstein, Osberg-Braun and de Moraes. Mr. Galeano represents clients in the areas of immigration
litigation, family based immigrant visas and employment based nonimmigrant and immigrant visas. He focuses on filing employment based nonimmigrant
visa petitions, drafting appeals to the BIA, and preparing waivers for individuals deemed inadmissible. Mr. Galeano has been a member of the
Florida Bar since 2008. He graduated Cum Laude from the University of Miami School of Law in 2008.
While in law school, Mr. Galeano served as a certified legal intern at the Miami-Dade County Public Defender's office felony division and also
interned with the Honorable Mercedes Bach.
Mr. Galeano is fluent in Spanish.
Amy L. Link
Amy Link, a former Lead Felony Prosecutor with the Broward County State Attorneys Office, has more than a decade of experience in employment and family based immigrant visa processing. Ms. Link specializes in the EB-5 visa category and preparing I526 and I829 petition. Ms. Link specializes in O1 and EB1 Extraordinary Ability Alien visas, H1B Professionals, E2 and E1 Investor Visas, L1 Intracompany Transferees, PERM Labor Certifications and Waiver Petitions.
Miguel D. Braun
Miguel Braun is the principal investigator with Bernstein Osberg-Braun, LLC. Mr. Braun specializes in tracing and verifying source of funds issues in preparation for EB-5 filings. A multi-cultural, multi-lingual and multi-ethnic individual, he lends valuable insight and a keen understanding to every matter. He focuses on a variety of complex investigative matters and problem solving. Problem cases are his specialty. Mr. Braun's fifteen year experience includes civil and criminal private investigations for defense and prosecution and all investigations involving state and federal government cases. He has traveled abroad to conduct investigations in countries during times of conflict and rampant criminality.
He served as an investigator with the Federal Public Defender's Office for eight years as well as the Dade County Public Defender's Office. He was also an in house investigator for the law firm of Ferrell Schultz. As a troubleshooter, he offers a creative approach to solving investigative problems. He has been successful in exonerating innocent people and companies domestically and worldwide by taking a unique and tenacious approach. His investigations have also led to the successful prosecution and conviction of individuals engaged in criminal activity.
Sandy O'Neil
Sandy O'Neil is Vice President of Development for the Miami-Dade Regional Center, principally managed by American Life Inc. She has spent over thirty years in the facilitation of capital development projects in both the public and private sectors. Her projects have included infrastructure improvements as well as institutional, commercial, hospitality and mixed-use developments at a total cost of over $1 Billion. Ms. O'Neil served as Special Advisor to then Miami-Dade County Mayor Alex Penelas where her responsibilities included oversight of the governmental departments and agencies responsible for capital projects. She spent over twenty years in the private sector working in a project delivery capacity for top ranked global design and construction management firms. She has a strong track record in successful negotiations with local, state and federal agencies instrumental to the provision of project funding and approvals and has been recognized for her achievements in these endeavors.
Of Counsel
Scott R. Jablonski
Scott Jablonski counsels corporations applying for Regional Center designation and drafts private placement memorandums and appropriate corporate documents. Mr. Jablonski founded SRJpl Law in 2007, and is the Firm's Managing Member. He is admitted to the bars of the State of Florida and the District of Columbia. He is a member of the Florida, D.C., American, and Miami-Dade County Bar Associations, and of the Bankruptcy Bar Association of the Southern District of Florida. He is also admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Middle Districts of Florida. Mr. Jablonski is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.
Mr. Jablonski focuses his practice in the general areas of Business and Bankruptcy Law. He counsels businesses and individuals on a wide variety of domestic and international corporate transactions, contractual matters, entity formation, and deal structuring and negotiations. A large component of Mr. Jablonski's practice involves international business transactions and related cross-border matters, with a particular focus on Latin America and Europe. He also represents individuals and small business debtors with their bankruptcy and related debtor's rights matters.
Prior to founding SRJpl Law, Mr. Jablonski practiced with a prestigious Washington, D.C.-based international law firm, and before that with a prestigious Philadelphia-based international law firm. While with those firms, he worked on a broad variety of corporate, commercial litigation, real estate, bankruptcy, immigration, employment, intellectual property and regulatory matters for clients ranging from Fortune 100 companies to startups to high net worth individuals.
Mr. Jablonski has published a book in the area of private international law with the prestigious Oxford University Press and his works on international, investment, business law and commercial dispute resolution have been published by several U.S. law journals.
- University of Pittsburgh School of Law
- 1. J.D., magna cum laude, Order of the Coif.
- 2. Articles Editor, University of Pittsburgh Law Review.
- 3. Certificate of Advanced Study in International and Comparative Law.
- University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
- 1. M.P.I.A., International Political Economy.
- 2. Certificate of Advanced Study on Latin America.
- 3. Foreign Language Area Studies Fellow - Portuguese and Latin America.
- Gannon University
- 1. B.A., magna cum laude, Political Science and Foreign Languages/International Relations.
Languages
- English
- Spanish
Of Counsel
Steve L. Waserstein
Steve L. Waserstein assists perspective EB-5 investors in evaluating the tax consequences of obtaining lawful permanent residency and provides appropriate tax planning strategies. He focuses his practice on tax, corporate and real estate law, including international and U.S. tax and estate planning and wealth preservation; compliance with U.S. tax laws, and representation during investigations by, and tax controversies against, the Internal Revenue Service and Department of Justice; joint ventures and partnerships including shareholders agreements, operating or partnership agreements, buy sell agreements, and management agreements; the funding, joint venturing, acquisition, financing, and disposition of real estate projects; and mergers and acquisitions.
Professional Highlights
- Represented several Billionaires in various capacities including tax planning, real estate transactions, and wealth preservation.
- Represented families from the U.S. and outside the U.S., especially South America, with a net worth ranging from $10 million to over $1 billion in wealth preservation, tax and estate planning, pre-immigration planning, and the formation and maintenance of complex trust structures.
- Represented U.S. citizens and residents living abroad with U.S. income tax compliance matters
- Represented individuals, entities, and estates being audited, examined, or investigated by the Internal Revenue Service civilly or criminally
- Represented non-resident aliens in the sale of a business for a purchase price in excess of $600 million
Languages
- English
- Spanish
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