Courses Offered:

Immigration Law
Advanced Immigration Law

Professional Biographical Information:

Charles H. Kuck has taught at the University of Georgia School of Law for seven years as an adjunct professor in the field of immigration law.

He currently serves as the managing shareholder of Kuck, Casablanca & Howard in Atlanta, with offices in Gainesville and Dalton, GA, and Miami, FL. He concentrates his practice on U.S. immigration and nationality law, and international migration matters. His practice includes assistance in business and professional visas; labor certifications; immigrant visas; consular representation and citizenship matters for foreign executives, managers, professionals and lesser skilled workers. He maintains an active federal court practice focusing on immigration issues and also advises employers on compliance procedures in verifying the work eligibility of all new employees as required under the I-9 "employer sanctions" provisions of federal law. His major clients include technology firms, manufacturers, multinational corporations and individual investors and entrepreneurs as well as individual immigrants and asylum seekers.

Kuck is the elected national second vice president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). Very active in the association, he has served on the national executive committee, on the board of governors, as one of 21 elected members of the national board of governors, as chair of the Atlanta Chapter, as first national chair of AILA's Young Lawyers Division and as the president of the Georgia-Alabama Chapter.

He is the author of the AILA Litigation Toolbox as well as numerous articles on various U.S. immigration law subjects. Kuck has testified before Congress on immigration matters and has spoken at various legal, industry, business and civic organizations on a broad range of immigration topics. He is frequently quoted in the press and has appeared on CBS, FoxNews, CNN, MSNBC as well as numerous radio stations. Additionally, he has been quoted in several prominent newspapers including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Miami Herald and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

He was again named a Georgia "Super Lawyer" in the field of immigration law by Atlanta Magazine in 2005 and was named in the International Who's Who of Immigration Lawyers. Kuck is a founding fellow of the Academy of Business Immigration Lawyers (ABIL), for which he currently serves as national secretary.

Kuck sat for seven years on the board of the Latin American Association. He is the former president of the Immigration Section of the State Bar of Arizona. He was awarded the Joseph F. Minsky Young Lawyer Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Practice of Immigration Law in 1999 and the Benjamin Landey Pro Bono Award by Catholic Social Services in 2000. His active federal litigation practice has resulted in seven precedent decisions published by the federal District and Circuit Courts of Appeals.