Sweekrutha Shankar

Sweekrutha Shankar serves as a founding partner at Shankar Ninan Law Firm in New York, New York, where she leads the immigration law practice and manages a team of paraprofessionals. Her practice focuses on immigration matters for businesses and individuals across numerous industries.

Ms. Shankar assists companies ranging from startups to large corporations in securing various visa types for foreign professionals. Her firm processes over 850 H-1B petitions annually, including transfer and lottery cases. She works with clients in finance, pharmaceuticals, IT, retail, engineering, health care, hospitality and nonprofit sectors, providing guidance through the complexities of U.S. immigration law.

For corporate clients, Ms. Shankar obtains H-1B, TN, L, E-3, O-1, P-3 and R-1 visas, along with employment-based green cards. She also advises on EB-5 investor visa applications. Her individual practice includes family-based immigration and naturalization matters. Her interest in immigration law began during her high school years when she worked as a document clerk. 

Throughout her career, Ms. Shankar has represented more than 300 employers in labor certification and visa matters and over 5,000 individuals seeking various immigration benefits. She has successfully handled numerous PERM applications, nonimmigrant visas and green card petitions.

A graduate of Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, Ms. Shankar earned her B.S. in finance cum laude from Temple University. She has published articles on immigration topics on Forbes.com. She is admitted to practice in New York and New Jersey. She maintains active memberships in the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the ITServe Alliance, the South Asian Bar Association of New York and the New York State Bar Association. She has spoken at conferences and on podcasts about immigration matters, including H-1B denials and the EB-5 program.