Hadeel M. Abouhasira

Hadeel Abouhasira is a business immigration attorney in Holland & Knight's Nashville office. Ms. Abouhasira partners with international corporations and U.S. employers to address immigration needs, providing practical strategies that support hiring, workforce management and regulatory compliance. She assists organizations with expanding U.S. operations, onboarding foreign professionals and relocating employees efficiently to minimize risks and avoid delays that could impact business objectives.

Ms. Abouhasira advises clients across a variety of industries, with a focus on healthcare, technology, manufacturing, transportation and financial services. Her practice includes B‑1/B‑2 visitor visas; H‑1B specialty occupation visas; O‑1 visas and EB‑1A green cards for individuals with extraordinary ability; E‑1 treaty trader and E‑2 treaty investor visas; EB‑2 National Interest Waiver petitions; EB‑5 Immigrant Investor petitions; employment-based green cards; J‑1 waivers for physicians; L‑1 intracompany transfers; R‑1 religious worker visas; and TN visas under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). She also counsels on consular processing, Program Electronic Review Management (PERM) labor certification, family-based immigration, corporate immigration due diligence, and I‑9 and E‑Verify compliance. In addition, Ms. Abouhasira provides complex travel guidance and strategies to navigate visa backlogs and restrictions. Clients rely on her to identify the appropriate visa category, prepare documentation and manage immigration issues that often arise during mergers, acquisitions and other corporate transactions.

Beyond individual filings, Ms. Abouhasira helps clients anticipate and mitigate immigration-related risks tied to growth. She conducts immigration due diligence for corporate deals, advises on foreign direct investment and supports companies opening new offices or launching U.S. operations. She also delivers targeted training for human relations teams and in-house counsel on I‑9 and E‑Verify procedures, equipping stakeholders with tools to maintain compliance and streamline onboarding.

Prior to joining Holland & Knight in Nashville, Ms. Abouhasira represented clients across diverse industries as a business immigration associate in the New York office of a global immigration law firm and at a regional law firm in Richmond, Virginia.