Sara Hastings

Overview

Sara Hastings is an attorney in Gunster’s Immigration practice group. Sara focuses her practice on employment, business, investment, and talent-based immigration matters. She has represented multinational organizations, investors, and professionals in navigating a diverse range of nonimmigrant and immigrant matters. Sara’s experience encompasses a wide range of immigration processes, including L-1A/L-1B visas for multinational executives, managers, and specialized knowledge professionals, the Blanket L Petition program, O-1A and O-1B visas for individuals of extraordinary ability, H-1B visas for specialty occupation professionals, E-2/E-1 treaty visas, and EB-1A, EB-1C, and National Interest Waiver pathways to permanent residence. Sara also has ample experience in family-based and humanitarian immigration processes, including U visa petitions, hardship waivers, and applications for Temporary Protected Status and humanitarian parole.

Sara is committed to providing exceptional legal guidance and building strong, trusted partnerships with her clients. Passionate about helping clients achieve their goals, she strives to offer thoughtful and comprehensive immigration strategies tailored to their specific needs. Sara favors a proactive approach to navigating the complexities of the immigration process, seeking to ensure that both immediate concerns and future aspirations are addressed with effective, customized legal solutions.

Prior to joining Gunster, Sara managed a broad range of employment and family-based immigration matters at an international global mobility firm. She has successfully represented individuals in removal proceedings before the U.S. Immigration Courts, as well as those applying for adjustment of status and citizenship before USCIS. As a graduate student, Sara interned at the USCIS Office of Citizenship in Washington, DC, where she reviewed grant proposals from immigrant-serving organizations seeking to expand the availability of high-quality citizenship preparation services. In addition, as a law student, she worked for a transnational organization in Mexico City that provides legal assistance to migrant workers.