Biography: Corporate Immigration

Marketa Lindt is counsel in Sidley's Chicago office and primarily advises employers on workforce strategy and visa processing for foreign national employees. Ms Lindt leads the Sidley immigration group's I-9 compliance practice, counselling companies in defending against government workplace enforcement actions and developing policies to avoid employer sanctions. Ms Lindt provides proactive immigration advice related to mergers, acquisitions and other corporate transactions. She also provides immigration counsel to companies and individuals who are defendants in white-collar criminal proceedings. Ms Lindt represents a range of clients, including US and multinational corporations, educational institutions, healthcare facilities, non-profit organisations and high-net-worth individuals.

In 2001, the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) presented Ms Lindt with its national Joseph Minsky Young Lawyers Award, an annual prize given to an attorney who has made significant contributions to the field of immigration law.

Ms Lindt is actively involved in national advocacy efforts to change laws and regulations so that assist US employers who need foreign national workers to fill critical positions. She has appeared a number of times on television and radio and in print regarding developments in immigration law. She serves in an advisory capacity to several cultural institutions and community organisations in the Chicago area. Ms Lindt regularly speaks at national and regional conferences and has written a number of articles on immigration law and practice. She is a primary author of the immigration law and practice treatise Business Immigration Law (Strategies for Employing Foreign Nationals and Forms and Filings volumes). Ms Lindt has also authored articles for a number of immigration treatises, including the American Immigration Lawyers Association's Guide to Worksite Enforcement and Compliance, the Guide to PERM Labor Certification, and numerous annual editions of the Immigration & Nationality Law Handbook.

Ms Lindt graduated with a JD and a Masters in International Affairs from the University of Pittsburgh in 1994. She received her BA from the same institution in 1990. She is admitted in Illinois.