Dagmar Butte is a Shareholder at Parker, Butte & Lane, PC in Portland, Oregon, and one of the nation’s most respected authorities on employment-based immigration and USCIS adjudications. Ranked Band 1 for Immigration in Oregon and Band 2 nationwide by Chambers USA, Dagmar has spent more than three decades representing employers, universities, hospitals, and technology companies before USCIS — and, through her long-standing leadership on the American Immigration Lawyers Association’s USCIS liaison committees, has been at the table with the agency itself as it reshaped its Request for Evidence practices, service center operations, and vetting protocols. Few practitioners in the country bring a more informed view of how USCIS actually adjudicates, and how to respond when it does not follow its own rules.