Marketa Lindt

Biography

Marketa Lindt, an immigration attorney from Chicago, IL, was elected as the association’s President-Elect for the 2018–2019 term.

Ms. Lindt is a partner at the Chicago office of Sidley Austin LLP, where she works with U.S. and multinational corporations to manage their business immigration visa programs to best attract and retain foreign national talent. She also leads her firm’s I-9 compliance practice, where she assists employers with implementing best practices for worker verification, advises companies on immigration-related issues in mergers and acquisitions, and defends companies in administrative and criminal immigration-related proceedings.

In addition to her work in representing U.S. companies, Ms. Lindt is actively engaged in AILA and other networks, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, to advocate for change in our immigration laws to better serve U.S. employers and immigrant communities. Ms. Lindt has also worked for a number of years in AILA’s government liaison efforts to advocate for reasonable interpretations of the immigration laws.

Ms. Lindt has authored numerous articles for leading immigration texts, including AILA’s Guide to Worksite Enforcement and Compliance, the Guide to PERM Labor Certification, and numerous annual editions of the Immigration & Nationality Law Handbook. She is a primary author of the immigration law and practice treatise Business Immigration Law (for both the Strategies for Employing Foreign Nationals and Forms and Filings volumes), and has appeared a number of times on television, radio and in print regarding developments in immigration law.

Beyond her service to her clients and the immigration bar, Ms. Lindt is committed to pro bono work and providing access to counsel for underserved immigrants. For a number of years, she has served as a member of the Leadership Board of the National Immigrant Justice Center in Chicago and provides pro bono representation to refugees, asylees and immigrant survivors of domestic violence. She also serves in an advisory capacity to several Chicago-area cultural institutions and to organizations that provide assistance to underserved immigrant communities.

Ms. Lindt is engaged on social media; her Twitter handle is @marketalindt.

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Expertise:

Business, E-Verify, Worksite Enforcement, Refugee, and Asylum

Recent Blog Posts:

• AILA Leadership Blog: Building on a Shared Moment of Community to Move Forward (December 5, 2014)
• AILA Leadership Blog: Remembering Nelson Mandela and Working Toward a Better World (December 9, 2013)

Selected Articles Quoting Ms. Lindt:

• Washington Post: The wall does not exist yet, but Trump has already erected new barriers for foreign workers (March 21, 2018)
• Bloomberg BNA: Another Year, Another Lottery Likely for High-Skill Visas (March 31, 2017)
• Chicago Tribune: Immigration lawyers swamped in wake of travel ban (February 6, 2017)
• Bloomberg BNA: Why Aren’t Foreign Skilled Workers’ Spouses Working? (October 6, 2016)
• Bloomberg BNA: Draft Immigration Rule Would Ease Foreign Entrepreneurs’ Entry (August 26, 2016)
• Law360 (sub req’d): H-1B Fee Expiration May Be Short-Lived Win For IT Firms (October 9, 2015)
• Law360 (sub req’d): Q&A With Sidley Austin's Marketa Lindt (May 13, 2015)
• Washington Post: Why Obama's executive action on immigration excluded parents of 'dreamers' (November 30, 2014)
• Washington Post: Obama says law enforcement must be made fairer (November 25, 2014)

Selected AILA Videos Featuring Ms. Lindt:

• AILA Quicktake #173: Proposed Entrepreneurial Parole Rule (August 30, 2016)