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Visas En Vogue: Threading the Needle of US Immigration Law

Visas en Vogue: Threading the Needle of US Immigration Law for Fashion Designers & Models 
Tuesday, September 16, 2025 | Panel 5:30pm - 6:30pm | Fashion Show 6:30pm - 7:30pm | Reception 7:30pm - 8:00pm
 
Format: In Person
Registration Fee: $20 Members | $35 Nonmembers    
 
Description:
Join us during New York's Fashion Week as we highlight foreign national and immigrant fashion designers and models. This event will focus on the unique legal challenges these fashion designers & models face in the fashion industry, including Immigration & Nationality Law, the Non-Immigrant Visas process, the Immigration Permanent Resident and U.S. Naturalization process. The panelist will also discuss intellectual property matters, the Fashion Worker's Act, employment issues, navigating import regulations with custom brokers, determining tariff classification & valuation, politics of fashion & race, and branding, and more. Designers will discuss how they have integrated elements of their heritage into contemporary designs, and ways in which designers are responding to the needs of a new global population.
 
Following the panel, please join us for a reception and fashion show featuring foreign national fashion designers as they showcase their collection.
Speakers:
Christopher Gregorio, Fragomen, Del Rey
Amanda B. Agati, Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu, P.C.
Laurie Berke-Weiss, Berke-Weiss Law, PLLC
Kimberly M. Jenkins, Fashion scholar and Founder, The Fashion and Race Database and Artis Solomon Consulting

Moderator:
Evans J. Legros, Legros Law Firm, PLLC
 
Featured Designers:
Glenroy March, Chief Executive Officer/Founding Designer, D'Marsh Couture
Noel Calubaquib, Suigens
 
Sponsoring Committees:
Fashion Law, Amanda Agati & Sindy Ding-Voorhees, Co-Chairs
Immigration and Nationality Law, Dorian Rojas & Ludivine Van Der Heyden, Co-Chairs
Small Law Firm, Adam Weissman 
 
Thank you so much to the generous sponsors of the program and reception.

Gold Level 
Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu, P.C.
Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP

 


Where
New York City Bar Association 42 West 44th Street New York, NY 10036

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