Chad Ellsworth

Chad Ellsworth is a Partner at Fragomen’s New York office, and has been with the firm for more than 15 years. His practice focuses on representing individual and business clients in a wide variety of corporate immigration, private client and related employment matters. Chad advises many high net worth individuals in their immigration related investments.

As investors from Asia are the largest users of global investor migration programs, including the U.S. EB-5 investor visa, Chad regularly liaises with Asian private clients to address their global entrepreneurial or investor citizenship or residency immigration needs.

Chad also advises human resource personnel, legal departments, managers, executives, professionals and multinational corporations on a variety of global immigration matters with an emphasis on the establishment and improvement of immigration compliant global mobility programs including jurisdictions with less formalized immigration processes and procedures.

He is a member of the firm’s Corporate Compliance and Private Client Practice Groups and a regular speaker at national and international immigration conferences including the American Immigration Lawyers Association, Council for Global Immigration (formerly ACIP), the China-US Business Alliance, EB-5 Investors, the Invest in America Shanghai Summit and Exhibition, and Immigration Lawyers on the Web (ILW). He is also the author of immigration related articles.

EDUCATION:

• Tulane University School of Law | J.D., 2002
• University of Southern California | B.A., 1998

Bar Admissions: New York, New Jersey

MEMBERSHIPS:

• Member, American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)
• Member, AILA National EB-5 Committee