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Attorneys and staff discussing a case

Central Asian Business Expo 2024

German American Chamber of Commerce – event – June 11, 2025

German American Chamber of Commerce event, June 11, 2025 – sponsored by Birg Law at Goose Island Beer Company facilities. Yuri Birg – speaker, topic: business-based immigration and the growing demand for business visa in Chicago, IL for international executives and companies expanding into the U.S.

Yuri Birg and Susana A. Mendoza (Illinois State Comptroller) discussing issues of business-based immigration and business investments in the United States from Central Asia at the 2024 Central Asia Expo. Also featured in the photograph are the U.S. Ambassador from the Republic of Kyrgyzstan, other members of the Kyrgyz Embassy, members of the Central Asian community in the U.S. wearing traditional Kyrgyz national hats, and members of the BIRG Law team.

Members of the BIRG Law team at the Central Asian Expo 2025

Yuri Birg and Susana A. Mendoza (ILLINOIS State Comptroller) discussing investment from Central Asia into the State of Illinois as it pertains to business-based immigration opportunities.

Susana A. Mendoza (ILLINOIS State Comptroller), Yuri Birg, and Bolotbek Borbiev, General Consul of the Kyrgyz Republic in Chicago, discussing investment and business opportunities in the State of Illinois.

Yuri Birg (Founder of BIRG Law), Susana A. Mendoza (Illinois State Comptroller), and Bolotbek Borbiev, Consul General of the Kyrgyz Republic in Chicago (with staff), at the Central Asian Expo 2025.

Yuri Birg and team headed to a meeting at the Central Asian Expo 2025.

At the Central Asian Expo 2025

Yuri Birg (Founder of BIRG Law) and Sherzod Shermatov, Minister of Technology of Uzbekistan

Yuri Birg giving a speech at the Central Asian Expo conference, April 16–17, 2025, on the topic of business and employment-based immigration. Birg Law was the primary sponsor of the Central Asian Expo 2025.

Yuri Birg giving a speech at the Central Asian Expo conference, April 16–17, 2025, on the topic of business and employment-based immigration. Birg Law was the primary sponsor of the Central Asian Expo 2025.

Yuri Birg giving a speech at the Central Asian Expo conference, April 16–17, 2025, on the topic of business and employment-based immigration. Birg Law was the primary sponsor of the Central Asian Expo 2025.

BIRG Law staff, Brian Kholodovsky (attorney) and Utkir Khidirov, LLM (senior legal analyst), at the Central Asian Expo conference, April 16–17, 2025

BIRG Law stand at the Central Asian Expo 2025, held in Schaumburg, IL.

BIRG Law team members at the Central Asian Expo conference, 2025, attending on behalf of the firm’s experienced immigration lawyer Northfield, IL team.

Client found our stand at the Central Asian Expo, 2025

Utkir Khidirov from Birg Law with visitors at the Central Asian Expo, 2025.

BIRG Law team: Brian Kholodovsky, attorney; Teodora Cvetanoska, LLM, compliance legal analyst; and Sandra Kozel, paralegal, having a discussion with a Central Asian Expo visitor.

Utkir Khidirov, LLM, a former business attorney from Uzbekistan and currently a senior legal analyst with Birg Law, having a discussion with Sherzod Shermatov, Minister of Technology of Uzbekistan, at the Central Asian Expo, 2025.

BIRG Law team at the Central Asian Expo 2025

Yuri Birg speaking at the Central Asian Expo conference, 2025

Birg Law attorneys Yuri Birg and Cesar Contreras at the Illinois Hispanic Chamber of Commerce event, 2024

Attorney Cesar Contreras, IHCC Conference 2024

Yuri Birg presenting at the German American Chamber of Commerce event, 2025, at the Goose Island Salt Shed.

Happy birthday, Yuri Birg

BIRG Law staff and family members at the Highwood 5K Family Run, Walk and Stroll.

BIRG Law sponsoring the Highwood 5K Family Run, Walk and Stroll.

Valerie Salcido, a senior associate attorney at Birg Law handling business immigration, representing BIRG Law at the HNBA (Hispanic National Bar Association) as a moderator at the “Navigating Corporate Immigration, Compliance, and Business Strategy” event
on October 22, 2025.

BIRG Law attorneys Yuri Birg, Valerie Salcido, Brian Kholodovsky, and Cesar Contreras at the IHCC (Illinois Hispanic Chamber of Commerce) Conference at Navy Pier, Chicago. Birg Law was one of the sponsors of this event and one of the exhibitors. Mayor Brandon Johnson, Susana A. Mendoza (Illinois State Comptroller), and many others
attended the event as key speakers and participants.

Valerie Salcido at the HNBA (Hispanic National Bar Association) conference on “Navigating Corporate Immigration, Compliance, and Business Strategy,” October 22, 2025.

German American Chamber of Commerce members at the Goose Island Salt Shed – European Professionals Networking event sponsored by Birg Law, with Yuri Birg as presenter.

German American Chamber of Commerce event sponsored
by BIRG Law