Susan Pilcher

Susan L. Pilcher brought her business and investment immigration practice to Stone Grzegorek & Gonzalez LLP in 2014.

Ms. Pilcher’s immigration practice has been devoted substantially to the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program since early 2007. She counsels and represents clients in a diverse range of investment-related immigration matters, ranging from working with entrepreneurs on nonimmigrant status and long-range strategic planning, to preparing I-526 and I-829 petitions and template filings, guiding developers in the preparation of investment offerings suitable for EB-5 funding, developing I-924 Regional Center applications, and counseling Regional Centers and developers on ongoing compliance issues. Ms. Pilcher’s investment immigration clients have included individual E-2 and EB-5 investors from 40 countries, EB-5 project developers and fund managers, USCIS-designated regional centers, and regional center applicants.

Ms. Pilcher additionally has extensive experience with both routine and complex consular processing and border adjudications, and with servicing the business immigration needs of large and small companies, including hospitals, a Fortune fastest growing company, and large multinational enterprises. A widely published author and frequent speaker on investment immigration topics, Ms. Pilcher’s background includes roughly 15 years of immigration practice and several years of commercial law practice and law teaching (including immigration law).

Ms. Pilcher earned her J.D. with distinction from Stanford Law School, where she was managing editor of the Stanford Law Review and was awarded a prize for her legal research and writing. After law school, she served as a judicial law clerk with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California.