Attorney

Gary Endelman

LOCATION
Houston (Downtown)
 
EDUCATION

University of Houston, School of Law (J.D. summa cum laude 1984)

University of Delaware (Ph.D. 1977)

University of Delaware (M.A. 1972)

University of Virginia (B.A. 1970)

 
LEGAL/COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

Board Certified-Immigration and Nationality Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization

Appointed to the Immigration Board Certification Examinations Committee, Member and Chair (1996-2003)

American Immigration Lawyers Association’s Senior Editor of the National Conference Handbook, (1996-2006)

State Bar of Texas

Admitted to practice in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas

Admitted to practice in the U.S. Supreme Court

 
PUBLICATIONS

Authored several hundred articles in leading immigration publications including Interpreter Releases, Immigration Briefings, Bender’s Immigration Bulletin through “My Answer Man” columns, and National Conference Handbooks of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

Gary Endelman and Cyrus D. Mehta. Do We Still Need Perm Labor Certification? An Analysis of The Merits-Based Points System in BSEOIMA. May 13, 2013.

Gary Endelman and Cyrus D. Mehta. Workable or Unworkable? The H-1B and L-1 Visa Provisions in BSEOIMA, S. 744. May 6, 2013.

Gary Endelman. Show Me The Money: Why DOL Can No Longer Determine Prevailing Wages for H-2B – Is PERM Next?. April 8, 2013.

Gary Endelman and Cyrus D. Mehta. The Way We Count. March 25, 2013.

Gary Endelman and Cyrus D. Mehta. WANTED: Great STEM and Tandoori Chicken. March 4, 2013.

Gary Endelman and Ignacio Donoso. What’s In It For Me? February 27, 2013.

Gary Endelman and Cyrus D. Mehta. "A House of Many Rooms: The Different Paths to Citizenship." February 8, 2013.

Gary Endelman. "Answer Man: Assisted Reproductive Technology and U.S. Immigration Law." January 1, 2013.

Gary Endelman and Cyrus D. Mehta. "The Sweet Smell of Success: H-1B Visas for Entrepreneurs." December 9, 2012.

Gary Endelman and Cyrus D. Mehta. "Where Do We Go From Here: The New Face of Comprehensive Immigration Reform." November 16, 2012.

Gary Endelman. "Milestones Along the March: What Congress Can Do on the Way to Comprehensive Immigration Reform." November 13, 2012.

Gary Endelman and Cyrus D. Mehta. “Obama Wins and So Does Immigration Reform.” November 9, 2012.

Gary Endelman and Cyrus D. Mehta. “Issues Ripe For Rulemaking: Some Modest Proposals.” November 5, 2012.

Gary Endelman and Cyrus D. Mehta. “Yes He Can: A Reply to Professors Delahanty and Yoo.” October 28, 2012.

Gary Endelman and Cyrus D. Mehta. “The Taxman Cometh: When Taking a Foreign Earned Income Exclusion on Your Tax Return Can Hurt Your Ability to Naturalize.” October 1, 2012.

Gary Endelman. “Will I-94 Automation Cause More Headaches for U.S. Employers?” August 30, 2012.

Gary Endelman and Cyrus D. Mehta. “They Still Have Their Dream: Law Suit Against Dreamers Will Go Nowhere.” August 27, 2012.

Gary Endelman and Cyrus D. Mehta. “Through the Looking Glass: Adventures With Arrabally And Yerrabelly In Immigration Land.” August 12, 2012.

Gary Endelman. “The Enigma of Disruption: What Continuity of Residence in Naturalization Really Means.” July 19, 2012.

Gary Endelman and Cyrus D. Mehta. “The Ties That Bind: Can Family Unity Co-Exist with Maintenance of Lawful Permanent Resident Status?” July 9, 2012.

Gary Endelman and Cyrus D. Mehta. “Dreaming In Arizona: Can Prosecutorial Discretion Co-Exist with Show Me Your Papers?” June 27, 2012.

Gary Endelman and Cyrus D. Mehta. “Deferred Action: The Next Generation.” June 19, 2012.

Gary Endelman and Cyrus D. Mehta. “Hidden Treasure: How States That Want Immigrants Can Take Advantage of Arizona v. USA.” May 6, 2012.

Gary Endelman. “Is It Still A Federal Case? An Unintended Consequence of Arizona v. USA.” April 29, 2012.

Gary Endelman and Cyrus D. Mehta. “From Madison to Morton: Can Prosecutorial Discretion Trump State Action in Arizona v. USA?” April 24, 2012.

Gary Endelman and Cyrus D. Mehta. “Justice Ginsburg’s Observation on Piepowder Courts in Vartelas v. Holder.” April 15, 2012.

Gary Endelman and Cyrus D. Mehta. “FLEUTI LIVES! The Restoration of a Constitutional Decision.” April 8, 2012.

Gary Endelman and Cyrus D. Mehta. “Will The Revised USCIS Q&A On Establishing The Employer-Employee Relationship In H-1B Petitions Save Staffing Companies?” March 18, 2012.

Gary Endelman and Cyrus D. Mehta. “Working H-4 Spouses Get to Take a Step Forward, But is it a Giant One?” February 5, 2012.

Gary Endelman and Cyrus D. Mehta. “Why We Can’t Wait: How President Obama Can Erase Immigrant Visa Backlogs with the Stroke of a Pen.” February 2, 2012.

Gary Endelman. “The Answer Man: False Claims to Citizenship.” February 1, 2012.

Gary Endelman. “The Answer Man: H-1B Adjusters and Advance Parole.” December 1, 2011.

Gary Endelman. “Where Do We Go From Here: How Can We Improve the H-1B?” November 26, 2011.

Gary Endelman. “Beware of What You Wish For: Is “The Fairness for High-Skilled Immigration Act” Really A Good Idea?” November 9, 2011.

Gary Endelman. “Can Martinez v. Mukasey survive a Supreme Court decision in Vartelas v. Holder?” October 27, 2011.

Gary Endelman. “Remembering Fleuti: New Developments in the Law of Admission.” October 23, 2011.

Gary Endelman. “Sometimes You Can Go Too Far: How to Avoid Citizenship Status Documentation And Document Abuse.” September 16, 2011.

Gary Endelman. “The Ice Man Cometh: What You Can Do After the Notice of Inspection But Before the I-9 Audit Starts.” July 13, 2011.

Gary Endelman. “Old Myths and New Realities: The Tender Mercies of I-9 Re-verification.” June 22, 2011.

Gary Endelman. “EB-2 India: The Great Leap Forward.” May 31, 2011.

Gary Endelman. “First Do No Harm: How to Correct I-9 Mistakes the Right Way.” May 25, 2011.

Gary Endelman. “To Copy or Not to Copy: Is that the Question?” May 2, 2011.

Gary Endelman. “Beware of Khamooshpour.” April 25, 2011.

Gary Endelman. “Can you improve your I-9 ‘IMAGE’?” April 15, 2011.

Gary Endelman. “Through the Looking Glass: I-9 Compliance from In-House Counsel Perspective.” April 4, 2011.

Gary Endelman. “Hard Times: Will They Help in The End?” April 4, 2011.

Gary Endelman. “Want A New Passport ? Adopted Children Need Not Apply.” April 3, 2011.

Gary Endelman. “No Visas Comrade!” March 13, 2011.

Gary Endelman. “Civil War Within the GOP.” March 4, 2011.

Gary Endelman and Cyrus D. Mehta. “Working: H-4 Spouses Get To Take A Step Forward, But Is It A Giant One?” February 5, 2011.

“Keeping Track: Select Issues in Employer Sanctions and Immigration Compliance” Bender’s Immigration Bulletin 16. February, 1, 2011.

Gary Endelman and Cyrus D. Mehta. “Keeping Track: Select Issues in Employer Sanctions and Immigration Compliance.” December 28, 2010.

Gary Endelman and Cyrus D. Mehta. “Keeping Hope Alive: President Obama Can Use His Executive Power Until Congress Passes the Dream Act.” December 18, 2010.

Gary Endelman and Cyrus D. Mehta. “Don’t Get Too Comfortable: Status After the Grant of an H-1B Extension Under AC 21.” November 13, 2010.

Gary Endelman and Cyrus D. Mehta. “Indian Immigration Policy and the Transnational Prevailing Wage for IT Workers.” October 24, 2010.

Gary Endelman and Cyrus D. Mehta. “BIA Continues To Reaffirm Broad “Sought To Acquire” Standard Under CSPA.” October 17, 2010.

Gary Endelman and Cyrus D. Mehta. “The Enigma of Bokhari v. Holder: Work Authorization is Not Lawful Status.” October 10, 2010.

Gary Endelman and Cyrus D. Mehta. “Boomerang: The Mosque Controversy and Other Immigration Excesses.” August 29, 2010.

Gary Endelman and Cyrus D. Mehta. “Follow the Money: What the OES Counts That You Can’t.” August 26, 2010.

Gary Endelman and Cyrus D. Mehta. “The World According to Senator Schumer: If it’s Not a Chop Shop, it’s a Body Shop.” August 15, 2010.

Gary Endelman and Cyrus D. Mehta. “Silence in a Time of Torment: Throwing Indian IT Firms Under the Bus.” August 11, 2010.

Gary Endelman and Cyrus D. Mehta. “Helping Those Who Help Themselves: How USCIS Can Stop Going Broke and Do the Right Thing.” July 30, 2010.

Gary Endelman and Cyrus D. Mehta. “No Room at the Inn: S.B. 1070 and the Constitutional Right of Interstate Travel.” July 21, 2010.

Gary Endelman and Cyrus D. Mehta. “Naturalizing in a Flat World.” July 8, 2010.

Gary Endelman and Cyrus D. Mehta. “An Uncertain Trumpet: Terrorism and the Loss of American Citizenship.” May 26, 2010.

Gary Endelman and Cyrus D. Mehta. “Making Comprehensive Immigration Reform Possible.” May 2, 2010.

Gary Endelman and Cyrus D. Mehta. “Save the Children.” April 18, 2010.

Cyrus D. Mehta. “The Tyranny of Priority Dates.” Bender’s Immigration Bulletin (April 1, 2010), also appears in Legal Briefs on Immigration Reform from 25 of the Top Legal Minds in the Country. Editors, Deborah Robinson & Mona Parsa, 2011.

Gary Endelman and Cyrus D. Mehta. “Two H-1B Spouses and One Labor Certification: Both Spouses Should Be Able to Seek Seventh-Year H-1B Extensions Under AC21.” March 24, 2010.

Gary Endelman and Cyrus D. Mehta. “Walking the High Wire without a Net: The Lawyer’s Role in the Labor Certification Process.” Bender’s Immigration Bulletin 14 (February 9, 2009).

Gary Endelman and Cynthia Lange. “The Perils of Preemption: Immigration and the Federalist Paradox.” Bender’s Immigration Bulletin 13 (October 1, 2008).

Gary Endelman and Cyrus D. Mehta. “Home is Where the Card Is: How to Preserve Permanent Residents Status in a Global Economy.” Bender’s Immigration Bulletin 13 (August 2008).

Gary Endelman and Cyrus D. Mehta, Numerous articles posted on Bender’s Immigration Daily on – line edition http://www.bibdaily.com.

Gary Endelman. “E Pluribus Unum: Well Maybe Not Everybody--Towards a Re-Examination of Birthright Citizenship.” Apr. 1, 2006, 11-7 Bender's Immigr. Bull. 1 (2006) (a/k/a 11 Bender's Immigration Bulletin 307).

Gary Endelman. "Why Immigration is Good for America." 86 Essays, e-book, 2004. http://www.ilw.com/articles/2004,0604-endelman.pdf.

Gary Endelman. “The Lawyer’s Guide to Section 21 (1) (5) (A): Labor Certification.  From 1952 to PERM.” Parts I and II, Interpreter Releases 81-38 and 39 (October 4 and 11, 2004).

Gary Endelman. “Go as Far as You Can: How Negotiated Rulemaking in Immigration Benefits America.” Bender’s Immigration Bulletin 8 (July 1, 2003).

Gary Endelman. “Perils of Pragmatism: Outsourcing, Not the Cap, is What America Should Fear.” Bender’s Immigration Bulletin 8 (June 1, 2003).

Gary Endelman and Asher Frankel. “Go North Young Man, Go North: Working Temporarily in Canada from an American Perspective.” Interpreter Releases 77-3 (January 14, 2000).

Gary Endelman. “Through the Looking Glass: the Impact of GAL1-97 and the Future of Labor Certification.” Interpreter Releases 74-37 (September 29, 1997).

Gary Endelman and Juan P. Osuna. “Labor Certification at a Crossroads: How GAL 1-97 Has Changed Labor Certification Policy and Practice.” Immigration Briefings 97-8 (August 1997).

Gary Endelman. “Renunciation of U.S. Citizenship: An Update.” Immigration Briefings 96-07 (July 1996).

Gary Endelman. “Saying Good-bye to Uncle Sam: Formal Renunciation of U.S. Citizenship.” Interpreter Releases 73-21 (May 24, 1996).

Gary Endelman and Robert Mautino, co-eds. A Nationality of Citizenship Handbook. AILA. 1996 (reissued several times).

Gary Endelman Bill Coffman. “The Changing Face of Equal Protection: Gender Bias in U.S. Citizenship Law.” Immigration Briefings 95-03 (March 1995).

Gary Endelman and Robert Loughran. “The Reality of Reliance: Immigration and Technology in the Age of Global Competition.” Immigration Briefings 93-7 (July 3, 1993) Cited in Wall Street Journal editorial on July 4, 1993.

Gary Endelman. “Looking Back at IMMACT 90:  An Overview of Employment-based Non-immigrant Visa Categories.” Corporate Counsel Review 11 (November 1992).

Gary Endelman and Jeffrey Hardy. “Uncle Sam Wants You: Foreign Investment And the Immigration Act of 1990.” San Diego Law Review 28-3 (Summer 1991).

Gary Endelman. “You Can Go Home Again: How to Prevent Abandonment of Permanent Resident Status.” Immigration Briefings 91-4 (April 4, 1991).

Gary Endelman. “How to Prevent Loss of Citizenship, Parts I & II.” Immigration Briefings 89-11 &12 (November and December 1989).

Gary Endelman. "Solidarity Forever: Rose Schneiderman and the Women’s Trade Union League." Arno Press. Dissertations in American Biography Series, Columbia University, 1982.

 
SPECIAL HONORS

Chair of the Examinations Committee in Immigration and Nationality Law for State Board of Legal Specialization, State Bar of Texas.

Testified before Senate Judiciary Committee on comprehensive immigration reform, July 26, 2005. http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/hearings/testimony.cfm?id=e655f9e2809e5476862f735da10951ff&wit_id=e655f9e2809e5476862f735da10951ff-2-3.

Named Texas Super Lawyer by Texas Monthly, 2005 and 2008.

Senior Editor, National Conference Handbook, AILA, 1996 – 2006.

Examinations Committee, Board Certification, Immigration and Nationality Law, Member 1996-2003, Chair 2003- 2006.

Recommended in The Legal 500 United States 2013's editorial for Labor and Employment law.

 
LANGUAGES

English

 
 

Gary Endelman

Senior Counsel

Main Phone
713.229.8733

Direct Phone
713.625.9227

Main Fax
713.228.1303

Email
gendelman@fosterquan.com
 
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