About Jeffrey Moeller

Jeffrey Moeller is an attorney at the law firm of Hermann Cahn & Schneider, located in Cleveland, Ohio. Hermann, Cahn & Schneider specializes in legal representation demanding aggressive advocacy skills and creative approaches to legal problem solving. Our firm's clients range from Fortune 500 companies to individuals.

Jeffrey's years of experience in the immigration field allow him to see the big picture, and plot the best course for a foreign national from beginning to end. Jeffrey is an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), the national immigration lawyers' bar association, and had been selected by them to lecture at their annual national convention.

Jeffrey graduated in the top 5% of his class from the University of North Carolina School of Law (1989), where he served on the North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation and was elected to the Order of the Coif. Following his graduation, he served a judicial clerkship with the Alaska Supreme Court (1989-90) and then entered private practice in Alaska before returning home to Ohio in 2001. Jeffrey is admitted to practice law in Ohio, Alaska, the Sixth and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeal, and the U.S. District Courts for Northern Ohio and Alaska. He is an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers' Association. His practice areas include effectively serving the needs of foreign investors, professionals and entrepreneurs; university researchers and faculty; and technical personnel including the IT and heavy/chemical manufacturing fields.


Jeffrey’s authorships, lectures and reported legal opinions include:

  • Authorship of an amicus curiae brief at the invitation of the American Immigration Law Foundation in Arreola-Calderon v. I.N.S., No. 99-71464 (9th Cir.);
  • Book Review, H. Zheng, Legal Structure of the International Textile Trade, 14 N.C. J. Int'l L. & Com. Reg. 519 (Fall 1989);
  • Gallo-Alvarez v. Ashcroft, 266 F.3d 1123 (9th Cir. 2001);
  • Meng Li v. I.N.S., 259 F.3d 1132 (9th Cir. 2001);
  • Andrade v. State of Alaska, Dept. of Revenue, 23 P.3d 58 (Alaska 2001);
  • Said v. Eddy, 87 F.Supp.2d 937 (D. Alaska 2000);
  • Hinojosa-Perez v. Eddy, 55 F.Supp.2d 1001 (D. Alaska 1999);
  • Neal & Company, Inc. v. City of Dillingham, 923 P.2d 89 (Alaska 1996);
  • Katmailand, Inc. v. Lake and Peninsula Borough, 904 P.2d 397 (Alaska 1995);
  • City of Dillingham v. CH2M Hill Northwest, Inc., 873 P.2d 1271 (Alaska 1994);
  • Panel Member, "Habeas Corpus and Other Remedies in Federal Court," 2000 American Immigration Lawyers' Association National Conference (Chicago, IL);
  • Speaker, "Alternative Routes to Employment-Based Permanent Residency; Are the Service Centers Adjudicating Petitions According to the Same Philosophy?" 2001 Northeast Ohio Federal Bar Association Immigration Conference (Cleveland, OH);
  • Panel Member, "Update on Removal Defense and Federal Litigation," 2001 Northeast Ohio Federal Bar Association Immigration Conference (Cleveland, OH);
  • Speaker, "2001-02 Changes to Immigration Policies and their Effect of the Flow of International Trade," Ohio Foreign Commerce Association (2002) (Cleveland, OH);
  • Author, Transnational Movement of People in a Post-9/11 World, World Trade Center (Cleveland) Quarterly Newsletter (2002) (Cleveland, OH).

Personal: Four children. Interests: Running, published fiction author, volunteer at women’s shelters, pro bono immigration clinics and disabled children’s (Special Olympics) events.


Examples of Immigration cases handled by Jeffrey Moeller:

  • Corporate formation and subsidiary formation with a view toward qualifying business owners or key technical personnel for appropriate visa categories.
  • Start-to-finish E visa business plans for large and small business owners and investors, including entity selection, formation, business plan drafting and support, and visa applications.
  • Extensive experience in all types of employer-side immigration matters, including hiring practices investigations and troubleshooting visa difficulties for critical foreign employees.
  • Successful and creative problem solver with respect to the immigration issues effecting scientific researchers, university faculty, technical personnel and entrepreneurs and investors.
  • Testified as expert witness as to standard of care in immigration legal malpractice case.
  • Successfully brought benefits discrimination class action, as first chair, against the state, involving over 1000 immigrant plaintiffs and several million dollars annually. Achieved summary judgment and successfully defended result on appeal. Case received national press attention.
  • Drafting personnel policies and procedures to comply with immigration laws and regulations respecting the hiring, retention and termination of employees.
  • Representation in difficult naturalization cases, including administrative appeals and federal court challenges to citizenship denials or revocations.
  • Analysis of potential immigration consequences of criminal proceedings in conjunction with criminal defense counsel.
  • Defense of the most complicated removal proceedings, including legal challenges to the asserted grounds of removal;
  • Waivers of J-visa foreign residency requirements, including for persecution, hardship, no objection, and interested government agencies.