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Angelo Paparelli is a Partner with Vialto Law (US) PLLC (“Vialto Law”), a U.S.-based law firm that is affiliated with Vialto Partners, the world’s leading global mobility company. Angelo is a passionate immigration reform advocate, focused on employment-based nonimmigrant and immigrant visas, and global mobility. He advises businesses on immigration compliance and corporate policy formulation, is a defender of employers in federal immigration investigations, and specializes in immigration benefits, M&A deals, and corporate restructurings. He is also a creative strategist and problem-solver in challenging, “lost-cause” immigration cases. Angelo has been ranked three times as the World’s Leading Corporate Immigration Lawyer in peer rankings of the International Who’s Who of Corporate Lawyers, and annually in Band 1 in Chambers, Legal 500 and LawDragon 100. He founded and served as the first President of the Alliance of Business Immigration Lawyers—www.abil.com—a 40-member worldwide alliance of leading immigration attorneys. He is also an Emeritus Board Member on the Board of Trustees of the American Immigration Council. Quoted in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Immigration Law360, and other leading publications on immigration law, Angelo is a recipient of the Edith Lowenstein Award for Advancing the Practice of Immigration Law, given by the American Immigration Lawyers Association. He is also a blogger (www.nationofimmigrators.com). He can be reached at angelo.paparelli@vialto.com.