Parisa K. Karaahmet is an immigration attorney and partner in the immigration law firm, Fragomen Worldwide. She practices out of Fragomen’s New York, N.Y., office, where she has oversight of an immigration team which also manages various corporate accounts. At Fragomen, she leads a team that focuses on individual and complex immigration matters and also manages a number of corporate accounts. She primarily handles matters related to EB-5 visas, employer sanctions, criminal and other inadmissibility grounds, E-verify, and I-9 compliance and enforcement.
Prior to joining Fragomen, Parisa served as an Assistant District Counsel and Acting Deputy District Counsel for the Immigration & Naturalization Service, New York District.
On the corporate compliance advisory group side, Parisa represents a variety of large, mid-size and smaller companies in their immigration matters, including those in the financial services, medical, pharmaceutical, and technology sectors.
She is a member of Fragomen's national EB-5 committee as well as the firm's Global Private Client Practice group.