Zhu "June" Cheng

June helps foreign investors and Chinese and American companies achieve global mobility, with the focus on EB‑5 and other investment-based immigration, employment-based immigration, and immigration services in global relocation matters.

June is a trusted advisor for businesses, entrepreneurs, and investors in employment-based and investment-based immigration and global mobility matters. June partners with businesses ranging from Fortune 500 companies, global enterprises, to mid-size employers, start-up companies, and individual investors across a wide range of industries such as life science, technology, food and agriculture, energy, and education. She works with her clients in developing practical and compliant immigration policy and solutions to achieve talent acquisition and retention.

June is also the primary attorney on global immigration matters, guiding U.S. companies and multinational corporations through complex and ever-changing immigration processes for their expatriate employees around the world. She is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.

• Manages foreign visas, work and residence authorization for multinational corporations’ expatriate employees in China, India, Taiwan, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Poland, and provides advice to corporate clients on global immigration issues involving countries in South America and the Middle East.
• Helps Chinese investor and family member secure EB‑5 conditional green card.
• Helps outstanding researchers, managers and entrepreneurs secure U.S. lawful permanent residence.
• Helps extraordinary musicians, sculptors, acrobats and other artists secure permanent residence status or temporary O‑1 visas.
• Helps families reunite by obtaining approvals in waiver petitions.

Education

• University of Minnesota Law School, J.D., 2010
• East China Normal University, B.S., 2007

Admissions

• Minnesota, 2011
• California, 2010
• U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, 2011

Languages

• 40 Under 40 Honoree, Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal (MSPBJ), 2025 
• North Star Lawyer, Minnesota State Bar Association, 2012, 2014-2015
• Recognized Volunteer, Minnesota Justice Foundation

Professional Activities

• American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), Business Steering Committee, Member
• Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD), Fellow, 2021
• Minnesota State Bar Association
• Hennepin County Bar Association
• National Asian Pacific American Bar Association
• California State Bar Association
• American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), MN/Dakotas, Member
• American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), Bangkok Chapter, Member
• American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), Mexico Chapter, Member
• American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), Global Migration Section, Member
• IIUSA—Association to Invest In the USA
• Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD), Pathfinder, 2017
• MNAPABA, Outreach Committee Member
• Twin Cities Diversity In Practice, Professional Development Committee Member

Community

• Yaya Foundation for 4H Leukodystrophy, Co-Founder, Board Member, 2017-Present
• International Institute of Minnesota, Board Member
• Tubman Legal Services, 2010-2012
• Legal Services of Northern California, 2009
• Minnesota Justice Foundation, 2007-2010
• Hong Kong Breakthrough Foundation & ECNU Consulting Center, 2006-2007