Bushra A. Malik is a Senior Attorney practicing in Butzel Long’s Detroit Office. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School (J.D., 1998) and Michigan State University’s James Madison College (B.A. in International Relations with High Honors, 1996; and an additional major in Japanese and Certificate of Asian Studies).
Ms. Malik practices in the area of immigration law, focusing her practice on the representation of multinational and domestic clients’ inbound and outbound immigration needs. Ms. Malik’s experience includes Employment based (Extraordinary Ability, Outstanding Researcher, Multinational Manager, and PERMs) and Family based Permanent Residence Petitions; Non-Immigrant Petitions (H-1B/Specialty Occupation, J-1/ Exchange Visitor, L-1/Intracompany Transfers, O-1/Extraordinary Ability, TN/ NAFTA); Employer Compliance (I-9 Audits and H-1B Public Access File Audits); J-1 waivers; waivers of inadmissibility for DUI/DWI for entry into Canada; Compliance under the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiate (WHTI); U.S. Passports; and complex naturalization matters.
Bushra A. Malik is a Senior Attorney practicing in Butzel Long’s Detroit Office. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School (J.D., 1998) and Michigan State University’s James Madison College (B.A. in International Relations with High Honors, 1996; and an additional major in Japanese and Certificate of Asian Studies).
Ms. Malik practices in the area of immigration law, focusing her practice on the representation of multinational and domestic clients’ inbound and outbound immigration needs. Ms. Malik’s experience includes Employment based (Extraordinary Ability, Outstanding Researcher, Multinational Manager, and PERMs) and Family based Permanent Residence Petitions; Non-Immigrant Petitions (H-1B/Specialty Occupation, J-1/ Exchange Visitor, L-1/Intracompany Transfers, O-1/Extraordinary Ability, TN/ NAFTA); Employer Compliance (I-9 Audits and H-1B Public Access File Audits); J-1 waivers; waivers of inadmissibility for DUI/DWI for entry into Canada; Compliance under the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiate (WHTI); U.S. Passports; and complex naturalization matters. Ms. Malik has extensive experience in securing work and residence permits for numerous countries around the globe, including: China, India, Canada, Japan, Australia, the United Kingdom, Germany, Russia, and Belgium. Ms. Malik also routinely represents clients at U.S. Ports of Entry, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services District Office, as well as various Foreign Consulates.
Prior to joining Butzel Long, Ms. Malik was a Vice Consul for the United States Foreign Service, Department of State in Seoul, South Korea. She also worked with the Executive Office of Immigration Review at the Chicago Immigration Court; and had externships with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in New Delhi, India, and the legacy Immigration and Naturalization Service, Office of the General Counsel in Washington, DC.
Ms. Malik is a member of the State Bar of Michigan, the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the American Bar Association, the South Asian Bar Association, the Michigan Muslim Bar Association, and the Japanese Business Society of Detroit. Ms. Malik currently serves as the Chair of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service Liaison Committee for the Michigan Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and on the Steering Committee of the Global Migration Action Group for the American Immigration Lawyers Association. She previously served as the Treasurer and on the Executive Committee for the Michigan Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.
Ms. Malik speaks Hindi, Japanese and Urdu.