Loan Huynh’s Story

Loan Huynh is a Shareholder at Fredrikson & Byron and chair of its Immigration Group. She has practiced immigration law for over 20 years. Loan focuses on employment-based immigration, corporate immigration compliance and global mobility solutions for employers, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to mid-size companies, entrepreneurs/investors, and family-owned farms by developing practical immigration policy and strategies to meet their global mobility and immigration goals.

Loan is chair of Fredrikson & Bryon’s Immigration Group and also leads its I-9 audit and corporate immigration compliance practice. This includes drafting corporate immigration policies; counseling on I-9 / E-Verify policy and procedures; defending employers in civil and criminal worksite enforcement actions; and conducting immigration due diligence in mergers, acquisitions and other corporate transactions. Loan has extensive experience in advising clients in the agricultural, hospitality, food processing, life sciences, biotechnology, energy, healthcare (healthcare systems, hospitals and individual physicians), software and other high-tech sectors, financial services and manufacturing industries. She partners with her clients in finding creative work visa solutions to meet their labor force needs including the use of the H-1B for specialty occupations, L-1 intra-company visas for multinational employees, E-1/E-2 investor / trader visas, B1/H-3/J-1 trainee visas, and temporary H-2A agricultural and H-2B temporary nonagricultural visas.

Loan is also a frequent speaker at national conferences and has written extensively on immigration issues. She is a member of the Board of Advocates for Human Rights, the Board of Trustee of the American Immigration Council and a member of the national American Immigration Lawyer’s Associations DOL Liaison Committee. She is also the Co-Chair of Fredrikson & Byron’s Inclusion & Diversity Committee.

REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE

• Drafts corporate immigration policy and compliance programs, including setting up immigration service models and processes for a Fortune 500 company.
• Represents companies of varying sizes in I-9 audits before the Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Security Investigation on I-9 audits and compliance, employer sanctions, E-Verify and in ICE/DOL investigations.
• Assists Fortune 500 company and small businesses on how to navigate the H-2B temporary non-agriculture visa program to meet their seasonal and/or peak load labor needs.
• Advises and represents healthcare systems, hospitals and individual physicians on waivers (Conrad, Hardship and Interested Government Agencies), nonimmigrant visas and lawful permanent options for physicians and other health care workers.
• Advises and strategizes with multi-national companies on global immigration options for international workforce.

EDUCATION

• University of Houston Law Center, J.D., 1995
• University of Houston, B.A., Political Science & History, 1992, summa cum laude

BAR ADMISSIONS

• Minnesota, 2002
• Texas, 1995
• U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, 2007

LANGUAGES

• Vietnamese

HONORS

• Diversity and Inclusion Award, Minnesota Lawyer, 2021
• Best Lawyers’ Immigration Law “Lawyer of the Year” in Minneapolis, 2021
• The Best Lawyers in America, Immigration Law, 2020-present
• Lawyers of Color, Nation’s Best List, 2019
• Hennepin County Bar Association’s Excellence Award, 2019
• Who’s Who Legal: Thought Leaders – Corporate Immigration 2020, 2022
• The International Who’s Who of Corporate Immigration Lawyers, 2010, 2012, 2013
• American Bar Foundation – Fellow, 2013
• Minnesota State Bar Association, North Star Lawyer, 2012, 2017-2019
• The Business Journal, “Top 40 Under 40,” 2002