Shirley Tang has more than 15 years of experience in immigration and nationality law. Her expertise includes employment-based petitions, family-based petitions, immigration litigation, and asylum and refugee law. Shirley represents a broad spectrum of corporate clients in the pharmaceutical, financial, information technology and healthcare industries in securing visas for foreign nationals. She provides guidance to Human Resource managers on Labor Condition Applications, I-9 compliance and enforcement issues. She also counsels private educational institutions on compliance with the Student Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS), which operates under the auspices of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

From 1995 to 1998, Shirley served as an Assistant District Counsel for the Immigration and Naturalization Service in Newark, New Jersey. There, she handled immigration litigation, employer sanctions, IRCA compliance cases and denaturalization cases.

Shirley is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. She has  lectured on immigration topics for the Federal Bar Association at seminars in the District of Columbia, New Jersey, Florida, Georgia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands and has authored articles on immigration law developments for various journals.