Roy J. Barquet is a partner and immigration lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP, where he focuses his practice on immigration litigation and labor and employment. He has experience with business-related immigration issues, audits of employers' compliance with immigration and labor regulations, employment-based immigrant visa petitions, investment and professional visas, labor certifications and family-based immigrant visa petitions. Mr. Barquet is particularly skilled in addressing legal issues confronting multinational companies in the transfer of U.S. and foreign workers between worldwide affiliates with varying labor and employment laws. He is chair of the firm’s Immigration, Nationality & Consular Law Practice and a member of the Government & Public Policy, Labor & Employment, International, and Latin America Practices.
Mr. Barquet has represented Fortune 500 companies, Olympic athletes, foreign heads of state, investment firms, executives and international entertainment celebrities before the U.S. Department of Labor and U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services.
Before joining Foley, Mr. Barquet was a shareholder in a large international law firm based in Miami.
Mr. Barquet also served as an assistant state attorney (prosecutor) for the State Attorney’s Office in Miami-Dade County from 1991-1996. While there, he was responsible for aspects of litigation in the prosecution of first-degree felonies, including drafting arrest and search warrants, grand jury indictments, discovery, legal motions, jury instructions and appeals.
