Listed in Best Lawyers in America since 2008, Attorney with AV Rated Borene Law Firm, P. A. - U.S. & Global Immigration

Scott Borene is Senior Attorney with the Borene Law Firm, a global immigration firm based in Minneapolis. He has had more than 30 years experience handling employment-based immigration matters. Scott Borene has been repeatedly recognized as one of the Top 20 Corporate Immigration Lawyers in the World “most highly regarded” by other lawyers and general counsel - Who’s Who Legal. Scott Borene was selected by other lawyers as 2016 and 2018 Lawyer of the Year in Immigration Law in Minnesota as noted by The Best Lawyers in America.

Borene Law Firm is listed in Tier 1 of U.S. News national ranking of Best Law Firms. Scott Borene is Editor-in-Chief of several AILA reference books including, The Global Immigration Guide: A Country-by-Country Survey, Immigration Options for Academics and Researchers, and The Global Immigration Guide: Crossing Borders for Business and author of Dr. Yes-Immigration Options for Doctors. He is a past national Director of AILA and chaired AILA’s Global Immigration Summit conferences in 2002 and 2004. He recently completed a two-year term as worldwide Co-Chair of the International Bar Association (IBA) Immigration Committee, the world’s largest global bar association based in London. He served two terms as AILA Chapter Chair and was Conference Chair of the 1996 AILA National Conference. He is a past Chair of the NSC Liaison Committee and past Chair of the INS Headquarters Adjudications Liaison Committee. In 2000, he was selected to receive a President’s Commendation Award “For Setting a New Standard in INS Headquarters Liaison.”

He is a graduate of Harvard University and Minnesota’s William Mitchell Law School.