Robert Ian Goodman is a practicing lawyer focusing on business immigration and international commercial law. He is currently immigration counsel to Sharma & Deyoung LLP, and a principal attorney of C-G Immigration and Commercial Law Affiliates. He is global immigration counsel to several multinational companies and regularly provides to small to midsized businesses advice on a range of immigration-related issues concerning investment based and employment based U.S. immigration. He is vice chairman of the board of governors of the World Trade Council of the Westchester County Association, a member of the immigration committee of the Westchester Bar Association, and a member of the American Immigration Lawyers’ Association. Mr. Goodman graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Tufts University, Medford Massachusetts, with a BA in International Relations in 1986 and in 1990 graduated from the Columbia University School of Law. Mr. Goodman is admitted to practice law in the State of New York and the District of Columbia as well as in the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. He is a sponsor of the award winning educational and research website-- InternationaLawHelp.com.