Celebrating 25 years in practice, Merrill R. Cohen & Associates, PC is an immigration law firm in midtown Manhattan, specializing in complex employment-based nonimmigrant visas, green card petitions and PERM applications. In addition to employment-based immigration petitions, the firm also provides representation for individuals for family-based petitions, naturalization applications, asylum, removal defense and waivers. One of our many areas of expertise is the filing of O-1 petitions for 'sponsoring agents', enabling the foreigner to work freelance, which is particularly attractive to artists, designers, models and actors. We also regularly represent athletes and coaches for P-1 and O-1 visa petitions, and EB-1 and PERM green card cases. Merrill has spoken numerous times on EB-1 and EB-2 NIW green cards, PERM, O-1 and P-1 visa petitions to other lawyers, and received 97% approval ratings from attendees. She has also been interviewed for a cover story in the New York Post, as well as in People magazine, abcnews.com, cbsnews.com, and more.