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Kate Kalmykov

Kate Kalmykov Co-Chairs the Immigration & Compliance Practice. She focuses her practice on business immigration and compliance. She represents clients in a wide-range of employment based immigrant and non-immigrant visa matters including students, trainees, professionals, managers and executives, artists and entertainers, treaty investors and traders, persons of extraordinary ability and immigrant investors.

Kate has deep experience working on EB-5 immigrant investor matters. She regularly works with developers across a variety of industries, as well as private equity funds on developing new projects that qualify for EB-5 investments. This includes creation of new Regional Centers, having projects adopted by existing Regional Centers or through pooled individual EB-5 petitions. For existing Regional Centers, Kate regularly helps to prepare amendment filings, file exemplar petitions, address removal of conditions issues and ensure that they develop an internal program for ongoing compliance with applicable immigration regulations and guidance. She also counsels foreign nationals on obtaining greencards through either individual or Regional Center EB-5 investments, as well as issues related to I-829 Removal of Conditions.

Kate also works with various human resources departments on I-9 employment verification matters as well as H-1B and LCA compliance. She regularly counsels employers on due diligence issues including internal audits and reviews, as well as minimization of exposure and liabilities in government investigations.

In this timely episode of Immigration Insights, hosts Kate Kalmykov and Courtney Noce, co-chairs of Greenberg Traurig’s Global Immigration & Compliance Group, address major developments in the U.S. immigration landscape.
Continue Reading Immigration Insights Episode 18 | Navigating Immigration in Flux: What Employers Need to Know About the H-1B Fee, Project Firewall, and Compliance

The U.S. Department of State’s National Visa Center (NVC) has issued updated guidance that impacts employment-based immigrant visa applicants, including EB-5 investors. This change is especially relevant for globally mobile

Continue Reading NVC Update: Residency Proof Now Required for Employment-Based and EB-5 Immigrant Visa Applicants

In recent months, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has reportedly issued denials of EB-5 immigrant investor petitions (Form I-526E) where investors filed after making only an initial installment toward

Continue Reading EB-5 Compliance Alert: Petitions Must Be Approvable When Filed – Importance of Timely Funding for Installment Investments

In this timely episode of Big Law Redefined Podcast’s Immigration Insights Series, Kate Kalmykov and Jennifer Hermansky break down the latest developments in the EB-5 immigrant investor program as of September 2025.
Continue Reading Immigration Insights Episode 17 | Recent Updates on the EB-5 Program: Expiration of Grandfathering Under the RIA on the Horizon, Retrogression, Data on Visa Usage, Travel Ban and the Latest on the CSPA

In this episode of GT’s Big Law Redefined podcast, Immigration Insights series host Kate Kalmykov is joined by Ben Sheldrick, managing partner at McGrath and Sheldrick in London, to break down the evolving landscape of UK immigration.
Continue Reading Immigration Insights Episode 16 | UK Immigration in a Post-Brexit World: What Employers Need to Know

In this timely episode of Immigration Insights, part of Greenberg Traurig’s Big Law Redefined podcast, host Kate Kalmykov is joined by Laura Rabinowitz, international trade and customs practice shareholder, for

Continue Reading Immigration Insights Episode 15 | Tariffs, International Trade, and Immigration: Discussing the New Era of U.S. Import Policy

In the world of U.S. immigration policy, most changes require significant debate in Congress—especially when it comes to reforming the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). But what if the president

Continue Reading Private Bills and High-Net-Worth Immigration: How a Gold Card Could Be Introduced Without Changing Existing Law

Kate Kalmykov, co-chair of GT’s Global Immigration and Compliance Practice, is joined by Canadian immigration attorney Sergio Karas to discuss the basics and complexities of corporate immigration to Canada.
Continue Reading Immigration Insights Episode 14 | Transferring Employees to Canada – What Corporate Employers Need to Know