Advisory Board Member & Chair of Corporate Relations and Fundraising
Salomon Chiquiar-Rabinovich, Of Counsel to Moreno Law, is an attorney licensed in Massachusetts. Salomon has over 20 years of experience specializing in providing employers and professionals with temporary and long-term immigration solutions for furthering business and employment objectives in the U.S. He advises multinational corporations in both their inbound and outbound immigration management and staffing solutions of a global workforce.
Salomon’s specialty in U.S. Immigration Law and procedures includes expertise in processing employment-based immigration visas H-1Bs, L-1s, E-2s, O-1s, outstanding researcher petitions, investor immigrant petitions, national interest waiver petitions, extraordinary ability petitions, family-based immigration, naturalization and asylum.
In addition to his immigration law professional experience, Salomon served in state and federal government positions: Monitor of grants at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Ombudsman for the H-2A Visa Program of the Office of Foreign Labor Certification of the U.S. Department of Labor, Regional Equal Employment Opportunity Counselor (for New England and Puerto Rico) for the U.S. Census Bureau and Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of International Exchange and Technical Cooperation of the Government of Puerto Rico.
Salomon practiced law in the Boston office of Seyfarth Shaw, from 2002-2009, and was a member of the International Labor and Employment Law Group of the firm. In addition, he served as Co-Chair of the International Immigration Law Practice Group of Ius Laboris, an alliance of law firms specializing in Labor and Employment Law in 43 countries.
In addition to his experience as a business immigration attorney, Salomon has developed customized EEO Compliance and Corporate Social Responsibility Workforce Trainings. He designed and provided EEO trainings for managers of over 40 local offices during the 2010 US Census Decennial, throughout New England and Puerto Rico. Prior to this training experience Salomon translated to Spanish the core compliance courses of Seyfarth Shaw at Work (a workforce training subsidiary of the firm, Seyfarth Shaw) and led interactive diversity and harassment prevention trainings for managers and Spanish-speaking workforces in U.S., and subsidiaries of U.S., multinationals in Mexico. He developed customized training solutions for attorneys in law firms outside the U.S. teaching how foreign counsel can harmonize their best practices in serving common clients in collaboration with their U.S. law firm or inhouse counterparts.
Salomon has played a leadership role in professional organizations advocating for the advancement of diversity and inclusion. He is a board member of the Diversity and Inclusion Steering Committee of the Boston Bar Association. In 2015 Salomon served as the President of the Massachusetts Association of Hispanic Attorneys (“MAHA”), Regional President of the Hispanic National Bar Association (“HNBA”) for New England (2007-2009) and was appointed the first National Co-Chair of the HNBA International Law Section in 2008. He was the President in 2007 of the New England-Latin America Business Council and was a board member of the Political Asylum and Immigration Representation Project (“PAIR Project” from 1999-2009).
Prior to relocating to Boston in 1998, Salomon practiced law in Puerto Rico as Special Counsel to the law firm McConnell Valdes and served as the Vice President of the International Division of McConnell Valdes Consulting.
