Chief Executive Officer

As Chief Executive Officer of VISANOW, Robert Meltzer leads his company in the pursuit of revolutionizing immigration and employment compliance process management and improving the legal services experience. After practicing law for 15 years, he realized the potential to streamline the immigration process by using technology and founded VISANOW. For over a decade, VISANOW has helped guide thousands of clients navigate the immigration process in the U.S. and abroad in more than 95 countries.

Robert began his career at the legal office of the United Nations World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, concentrating on public international law, international contracts, and international copyright. Upon returning to the U.S. he entered private practice, continuing to focus on international business law, and then expanding his practice to include immigration law, representing clients on a broad range of immigration issues. Robert has experience in all appellate processes of immigration law and has represented clients before the United States Supreme Court on immigration law issues.

Robert was awarded a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a Juris Doctor from Northern Illinois University College of Law. He furthered his international legal education by receiving certificates and diplomas from the Henri Dunant Institute in Geneva, Switzerland; The Institute de Internationale Droits de L’homme in Strasbourg, France; and the University of Salzburg/McGeorge School of Law in Salzburg, Austria.

Robert is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and the International and Immigration Law Section of the Illinois State Bar Association (of which he has served as Chair). He is also an author, lecturer and a recent Adjunct Professor of International Law at Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago-Kent College of Law.