Christina Wilkes Lawyer Reviews & Ratings - Takoma Park

Ms. Wilkes is an immigration attorney with over 14 years of experience successfully handling family, humanitarian based, and business immigration cases before the US Immigration Service and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as well as deportation defense matters before the Immigration Courts and the Board of Immigration Appeals. She also appears regularly before the Superior Court for the District of Columbia and Maryland Circuit Courts on behalf of immigrant children.  Ms. Wilkes has successfully assisted many hundreds of clients in securing their status and building stable and permanent futures in the United States.. Prior to opening Wilkes Legal, Ms. Wilkes represented clients from all parts of the globe at Grossman Law, LLC, a full service immigration law firm. She joined Grossman Law in 2012 and became a partner in 2014. In those positions, she offered comprehensive immigration solutions and strategies for families, children and youth, survivors, workers, professionals, and people facing deportation.. From 2008-2012, Ms. Wilkes served as legal director of Ayuda, a Washington, DC based non-profit organization that provides legal, social, and language access services to low-income immigrants. Before that, she founded Ayuda’s Children’s Project and served as its Director from 2005-2008. In that capacity, Ms. Wilkes was an early advocate for unaccompanied immigrant children and a pioneer for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) cases in the region.