Elvira J. Rodriguez

Elvira Rodriguez is a business immigration attorney in Holland & Knight's Nashville office who focuses her practice on employment-related immigration law.

Ms. Rodriguez serves as a strategic business partner to employers in healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, automotive and other industries, assisting with a wide range of immigration matters required to build and manage competitive workforces. She helps clients with applications and required filings, including J-1 waivers for physicians subject to the foreign residence requirement, H-1B visas for specialty occupation professionals and L-1 visas for intra-company transfers.

Previously, Ms. Rodriguez gained valuable experience as an Assistant District Attorney in the Office of the District Attorney General in Nashville, where she honed her litigation skills and developed a prosecutor's insight into regulatory compliance – experience that distinguishes her approach to immigration practice and risk management.

Before attending law school, Ms. Rodriguez acquired more than eight years of experience as an immigration paralegal. Her experience includes employment-based, family-based and humanitarian-based immigration. As a paralegal, she focused on filing L-1 visas for intra-company transfers, EB-1 extraordinary ability petitions, H-1B visas for specialty occupation professionals, O-1 visas for foreign nationals of extraordinary ability and PERM labor certification applications. She also focused on applications for residency, tourist/work visas, U-visas and family-based residency petitions.

Ms. Rodriguez is deeply committed to serving vulnerable populations in her community. She regularly provides pro bono representation to domestic violence survivors in Davidson County, assisting them by obtaining orders of protection. She is also dedicated to supporting Nashville's creative community. As co-chair of the Nashville Bar Association Young Lawyers Division's annual arts immersion event, she helped raise funds for the Arts and Business Council of Greater Nashville's Volunteer Lawyers and Professionals for the Arts program, which has provided nearly $4 million in pro bono legal services to Nashville's arts and entertainment sector.