Founding Partner, Fuji Whittenburg
Fuji Whittenburg counsels on visa and green card options for both individual and corporate clients involved in a wide range of industries including arts, entertainment, new media, as well as start-up businesses in the field of technology. She has more than a decade of immigration law experience working at top immigration law firms and serving in various leadership positions on behalf of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). She also has extensive experience with strategizing immigration options for athletes, artists, business professionals, entertainers, entrepreneurs, multinational executives, specialty occupation workers, as well as university professors and researchers.
As a law practitioner dedicated to improving the quality of U.S. immigration and nationality law and policy on a national level, Ms. Whittenburg is frequently invited to speak on entertainment and business related immigration topics at national conferences, and has authored numerous articles on a broad range of immigration topics for various publications. She regularly leads workshops on post-graduation immigration options for international students at various universities and academic institutions. Given the complexity of immigration laws and issues today, Ms. Whittenburg is frequently sought after for her advice and representation on complex cases before USCIS in both the arts and entertainment arena, as well as in business matters.
Currently, Ms. Whittenburg serves as a Member on AILA’s U.S. Department of State Liaison Committee, as well as Steering Committee Member of AILA’s Athletics, Culture, Entertainment, and Science (ACES) Taskforce, focusing on immigration issues in arts and entertainment.
