Top Immigration Lawyers Near Me in Chicago Area

Xavier Borjas is an Immigration and Nationality Law attorney in Chicago, IL.

William Schiller represents individuals, corporate, and university clients in a broad array of immigration matters. Many of the clients he represents are professors, researchers, scientists and post-doctoral scholars who apply for permanent residence as outstanding researchers and professors, and via national interest waiver and extraordinary ability immigration petitions. In addition, Wiliam's law practice involves the representation of highly-skilled professionals and individuals in a wide range of non-immigrant visa matters, as well as family-based immigration involving applications for permanent residence in the United States, asylum matters, removal, naturalization, consular processing, and other complex areas of immigration law.. As universities, medical centers, international students, faculty and postdoctoral scholars face increasingly complex and evolving immigration policies, William also leads Hinshaw’s Higher Education Immigration Team.. William lectures and publishes extensively on immigration law, and his client base is national and worldwide. He is an adjunct professor at Northwestern University, where he teaches a senior-level course on international human rights and U.S. refugee law.

We have a strong practice focussed on deportation / removal defense work.  We represent clients before the Immigration Courts, Federal District Courts and U.S. Appellate Courts throughout the United States.

Tristan Gunn is a practicing attorney and partner at the law office of TAPIA-RUANO & GUNN, PC. (TRGPC). He focuses his practice in the area of removal defense before the Chicago Immigration Court and Family-Based immigration. His practice includes applications for permanent residency in the US and through consular processing abroad. His practice also includes waivers of inadmissibility, U visas, applications for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), and Naturalization.. Mr. Gunn has been named by Illinois Super Lawyers as a Rising Star for 2018. He has also been recognized as an “Emerging Lawyer” by the Leading Lawyer’s Network in 2017 and 2018. Mr. Gunn was also named a “Top Lawyer” by Chicago Lawyer Magazine in 2017.. Tristan attended law school at Depaul University College of Law and graduated with his Juris Doctorate in 2011. Tristan became a member of the Illinois Bar in 2012 and has been practicing immigration law ever since. Tristan is bilingual in English and Spanish. Tristan is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and has been an active particiapnt in the Chicago Chapter.. At TRGPC virtually all areas of immigration law are practiced with few exceptions. Attorneys primarily provide services relating to applications for Legal Permanent Residency through Adjustment of Status and Consular Processsing, Naturalization, U Visas, VAWAs, preparing inadmissibility waivers, DACA applications, non-immigrant visas, defense in removal proceedings, and asylum. Attorneys also handle a variety of employment based applicaitons.

The opportunity for a new life in the United States brings hope and thoughts of a better tomorrow for many immigrants. But that joyful feeling can quickly be lost when they encounter delays, confusion, and frustration while working with U.S. immigration officials to gain lawful entry or residence. Attorney Julia Sverdloff has seen first-hand how difficult these struggles are, and she also knows how immigration can positively transform lives. It has motivated her to devote her legal career solely to immigration law and resolving tough legal challenges for clients throughout the greater Chicagoland region and all across the globe.. As the founder and owner of Sverdloff Law Group, Ms. Sverdloff provides knowledgeable legal counsel and continued support to those seeking immigrant and non-immigrant visas, green cards, and relief from removal proceedings, among other immigration-related issues. An immigrant herself, Ms. Sverdloff has a unique ability to understand the obstacles many families face when seeking a better life in the United States. This drives her to deliver exceptional advocacy throughout every step of the legal process and fiercely protect her clients' rights and best interests. Deeply respectful of her client’s time and resources, Ms. Sverdloff works to find the most efficient and cost-effective solution for each immigration issue, while still achieving favorable outcomes in cases that other attorneys labeled as hopeless. Her practice is global and serves all 50 states.. Julia Sverdloff is the founder of the law firm Sverdloff Law Group, P.C. which concentrates its practice in immigration law.. Julia is a member of the immigration community, by birth and by profession. She has first-hand experience with U.S. immigration laws and procedures having immigrated to the United States from Odessa, Ukraine when she was eleven years old. Being an immigrant herself, Ms. Sverdloff is in a unique position to understand what one may be going through and experiencing as an immigrant. She has an understanding of the fears and frustrations of the complex immigration process as well as the rewards for achieving ‘green card’ status. This experience, its challenges and complications, became the main reason why Ms. Sverdloff chose to pursue an immigration law career. Helping others pursue their American dream is a lifelong goal of Ms. Sverdloff.. Ms. Sverdloff has a diverse work background that adds depth and understanding to her practice of law. Prior to starting her own law firm, Julia was an associate and outside counsel at two prominent law firms in New York and New Jersey. She has also clerked for a well-respected Chicago immigration law firm and is a founding board member of the American Association of Russian-Speaking Attorneys.. Julia received a Juris Doctorate from The John Marshall Law School, Master’s Degree in International Relations from C.W. Post University and Bachelor of Arts in Government and Politics from St. John’s University. Ms. Sverdloff also served as an Adjunct Professor for her alma mater The John Marshall Law School in Chicago, Illinois as an immigration law adjunct for the Domestic Violence Clinical Advocacy Program (DVCAP).. Julia is licensed in Illinois, New York and New Jersey. U.S. District Court for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York, U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and the U.S. Supreme Court.. Ms. Sverdloff is also a licensed mediator and is frequently retained to mediate various disputed issues. Julia is a member of the American Bar Association, the Nassau County Bar Association and the New York State Bar Association. Ms Sverdloff is an active member of American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA).. Julia has been an avid artist since she was a child and continually works on her art. Julia’s artwork was showcased on the mainstream TV show 'Prison Break.' Ms. Sverdloff stays active in her community by guest speaking on school bullying and juvenile access to justice.

The immigration system is enormously complex, but Vicario Law Group, LLC. aims to make immigration concerns less intimidating and anxiety-inducing. Learn more about the firm and request a consultation by getting in touch with the firm today.

Taher Kameli has been a founding partner of the Kameli Law, P.C. (in the past Law Offices of Kameli & Associates, P.C.) since 1996 and focuses on immigration and corporate law. He is also a strong advocate for international business. Mr. Kameli has devoted himself over the course of his career to the problems of our contemporary era of globalization. He is a member of the bar of Washington D.C., New York, the U.S. Supreme Court, and Illinois.. Since 2009, Mr. Kameli has been facilitating the creation of sustainable jobs in the United States with over 100 million foreign investments by the designated USCIS Regional Centers, under the EB-5 program. With creative solutions, he remained in the front line of the EB-5 Program to solve complex business immigration issues and engagement with USCIS.

Susan Fortino-Brown has practiced in the field of Immigration Law exclusively since 1987.  Ms. Fortino-Brown has served in several leadership positions with the National American Immigration Lawyers Association (“AILA”), including the Chair of the AILA Field Operations Liaison Committee to the United States Citizenship & Immigration Services (“USCIS”). She has also served on the following National AILA committees: Nebraska Service Center (“NSC”) Liaison Committee, USCIS Benefits Committee, National Benefits Center (“NBC”) Liaison, AILA National Ethics Committee, and the AILA Board of Governors, while simultaneously serving as Chapter Chair of the Chicago AILA chapter.  In addition, Ms. Fortino-Brown acted as a member of the American Immigration Council (“AIC”) Board of Trustees, and she is presently the Co-Chair of the Leadership Council of the National Immigration Justice Center (“NIJC”) of Heartland Alliance in Chicago.  Ms. Fortino-Brown is currently  on the Chicago AILA District Director Liaison committee. She has been a contributing author for past AILA Immigration & Nationality Law Handbooks, and speaks frequently at regional and national Immigration Law conferences. Her clients are diverse within the immigration field, and include individuals and owners of businesses, a nationally prominent University and its faculty members, professional baseball players, competitive figure skaters, fashion designers, as well as individuals in family-based immigration, naturalization, asylum and deportation/removal matters.  Ms. Fortino-Brown hosted a weekly Spanish radio program on Immigration Law and has appeared on national and local television and radio as an expert on the topic.  She has been recognized by the Women's Bar Association of Illinois, receiving the “Women with Vision" award. Ms. Fortino-Brown has been featured in the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun Times and Chicago Lawyer Magazine. Ms. Fortino-Brown speaks Italian and is fluent in Spanish.

Stephen Berman practices in his firm's Chicago and Milwaukee offices where he concentrates his work in the area of immigration and nationality law and handles all aspects of immigration law including employment and family based, temporary visa processing, investment and trade visas, applications for permanent residence and naturalization, humanitarian applications, removal defense, and both immigration court and federal court litigation, criminal aliens and appeals.  He assists corporate clients in maintaining compliance with U.S. immigration laws and he works with foreign investors, entrepreneurs and executives to facilitate entry to the U.S. Stephen also works with individuals and families to secure legal status and U.S. citizenship.

Since beginning in the practice of immigration law more than 30 years ago, the most important thing I have learned is to not predict or anticipate a negative outcome to a case.  I will not accept a legal matter that I think is frivolous or not supported by law, but there are many cases in which hard work, study of the law and creative advocacy can influence the interpretation of a difficult issue, or gain favorable exercise of discretion of an  immigration official or judge. As a colleague taught me a long time ago, if something is not prohibited, it is permitted.  Immigration lawyers occupy a peculiar space where, often, government practices are not policies, policies are not rules, rules are not law, and both rules and law seem to be dispensed with, with hardly a second thought.  We are persuasive advocates when we bring whatever authority we can muster to bear on a given situation.  The adjudicator or IJ will say, "what? there is a rule or a law to apply?"  And that can make all the difference in a given case.

Since 2001, I have been representing clients at The Law Offices of Kameli and Associates in all aspects of business law, corporate law, and family-related immigration, including employment and employment-creation (EB-5) immigrant visas. In various employment matters, including labor litigation and avoidance, wrongful cancelation and contractual dispute, discrimination, equal employment, and wage and overtime claims, he also represents employers and employees.. I have experience in corporate management, contract disputes, franchise issues, start-ups, and many corporate and company law businesses. I have also represented clients in U.S. federal and state courts as well as several federal, state, and local authorities.. I have appeared and argued before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. While in law school, I served as a judicial intern to the Hon. Patrick E. McGann of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois. I also was a member and co-editor of The Seventh Circuit Review Honors Journal. I published the article: Seeking Asylum in a Hostile System: The Seventh Circuit Reverses to Confront a Broken Process (2006).

Rebecca Rangel,  Founder and Lead Attorney at Rangel Legal. Law Office & Freelance Legal Service. As a law office, Rangel Legal is a team of attorneys who represent individuals, families and businesses on inbound U.S. immigration, nationality and visa matters before the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, the National Visa Center, Customs and Border Protection, the Department of State and U.S. Embassies and Consulates worldwide.. We are bilingual in English and Spanish and often advise clients who require consular processing and visa interviews at the U.S. Embassy in Quito, Ecuador and the U.S. Consulate in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Rangel Legal also counsels non-Ecuadorians residing or seeking to live, work or invest in Ecuador and Ecuadorians residing in the United States on a number of other cross-border legal issues.. The freelance service at Rangel Legal offers busy law firms and sole practitioners the ability to contract our firm to perform substantive legal work on "as needed" on a temporary or project basis. We can lighten your caseload and provide your office with greater workload efficiency and profitability.. Rangel Legal maintains unique network of skilled freelance attorneys who are educated and trained in U.S. Law and who hold a license to practice in at least one of the 50 states. Our freelance attorneys work remotely, on a project or hourly basis, and are knowledgeable and experienced in a variety of practice areas.

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Our firm focuses on all areas of immigration law. We work with businesses and individuals to solve all of their immigration related needs. We look forward to assisting our current and future clients.

One of the things that separates me from other attorneys is my ability to look at the big picture and see how a case may start out as one type of case but has effects in other areas of the law. Many attorneys have only a narrow perspective and cannot identity the other possible issues.

Nancy M. Vizer concentrates her practice in immigration law. She is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association., where she has served on several committees.  Her mission as an attorney is to provide employment and family sponsored immigration, with personalized service, to clients worldwide.. Ms. Vizer has experience in most aspects of immigration law, and is a frequent speaker about immigration topics at community and legal events. She has prepared and submitted numerous applications for business-related visas for immigrants and nonimmigrants. Her clients have included both small and large business enterprises in many fields, including universities, high tech, hospitality, marketing and healthcare. She has also assisted many clients to sponsor family members for permanent residence.. In addition to her law degree, Ms. Vizer has a masters in business administration, which assists her in understanding and working with the unique needs of her corporate clients.. As an immigration attorney licensed in Illinois and Virginia, Ms. Vizer is authorized to represent clients anywhere in the United States and internationally.

My name is Martin Perez. I became a lawyer to help individuals and families fight against a legal system that is often stacked against them. My entire legal career has evidenced a passion for seeking justice for my clients, giving a voice to those who have been silenced. I value and serve them, regardless of background. I grew up on the south side of Chicago, as the son of immigrant parents. Through their hard work and sacrifice, I learned a host lessons that have shaped the person I am today. Hard work, fighting with integrity and taking advantage of valuable opportunities have all been the building blocks for my work.. In over 17 years as an attorney, I have successfully represented thousands of individuals. I have successfully fought to reunite families and keep individuals in the United States to care for their children, spouses or parents. I help victims of Domestic Violence and other serious crimes remain in the United States with their families and to obtain lawful permanent residency and citizenship. I have traveled throughout the United States to fight for my clients. I consider it an honor to represent people from all corners of the world in pursuit of their American Dream.. I’m not just a lawyer. I’m a father, a husband and an active member of my community. I’m a trustee for my local church, a coach, and a mentor. I volunteer my time and service to numerous worthy causes. In keeping with my passion for service, I am not afraid to work with my hands and do a bit of heavy lifting. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” John Maxwell

Mr. Dixler specializes in immigration, visa law, citizenship and related matters since 1993. He is a 29 year member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. He now serves on the AILA Chicago Chapter’s liaison committee between prosecutors and private attorneys practicing in the Chicago Immigration Courts. Mr. Dixler was nominated and named a Thomson Reuters Super Lawyer in immigration for the last nine consecutive years. Many are marriage-based and family immigration clients. However, he is experienced in all aspects of immigration and visa law. He has exceptional insight on cancellation of removal and waiver work.. Mr. Dixler represents those in Immigration Court facing asylum referrals, criminal deportation and challenging family matters, among other issues. Criminal defense attorneys contact him about the immigration consequences of a criminal record for their foreign born clients. He has significant experience with waivers of inadmissibility for crime, J-1 visas, misrepresentation, and unlawful presence. He has served as a speaker and writer for AILA on these topics, among others. Mr. Dixler successfully defends clients in the Immigration Courts, Board of Immigration Appeals and Federal Courts. He has filed successful lawsuits against the U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Service in Federal Court to challenge unreasonable delays with adjudication, naturalization denials, and name checks. He is also functionally bilingual in Spanish. Mr. Dixler is a Native Chicagoan, who is originally from the Central Rogers Park neighborhood.

Maya Flores is an associate Immigration Attorney with the Jarecki Law Group. She primarily represents clients in employment-based matters and provides support on all other immigration matters, including family-based, DACA, naturalization, and asylum.. Maya recently graduated law school and practices immigration law in Chicago. During law school, Maya interned with Jarecki Law Group, where she worked on complex family-based immigration cases, and with Beyond Legal Aid, a Chicago-based nonprofit that focuses oncommunity activism lawyering. She also worked as a student attorney at her law school’s Asylum & Immigration Legal Clinic as well as the Criminal Appeals Legal Clinic. Maya was selected as PILI funded legal intern at the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, where she researched policy issues that affect the Latinx community throughout the Midwest. Previously, Maya served as a Judicial Extern for Chief Judge Rebecca R. Pallmeyer, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Matthew Kriezelman is an Partner at Kriezelman Burton & Associates, LLC. He regularly practices Immigration law before the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services, Department of Homeland Security, Immigration Courts, Board of Immigration Appeals, Federal District Courts and Courts of Appeals.. Matthew has traveled extensively throughout the country to represent immigrants before USCIS, ICE and various Immigration Courts.. He has extensive experience litigating Immigration related issues before the Federal District Court.  Matthew has filed numerous claims under the Administrative Procedures Act to ask that the District Court force the Department of Homeland Security to make a final decision in a case.  Often this has resulted in immediate decisions in cases which had been pending well beyond normal processing times.  Matthew has also filed numerous actions to ask that the District Court review denials of final administrative decisions.. Matthew currently serves as a co-chair of the American Immigration Lawyers Association’s Liaison Committee with the Chicago USCIS District office.  Matthew maintains offices in Chicago and Waukegan.. Matthew is currently an instructor at Loyola University Chicago, Insitute of Paralegal Studies, teaching a course in Immigratoin Law.

Kendra H.M. Scheuerlein is a Partner with Hughes Socol Piers Resnick & Dym, Ltd. She concentrates her practice in the areas of immigration and nationality matters. These include family-based immigration issues, waivers, naturalization, asylum, consular processing, and appeals. Ms. Scheuerlein represents clients in removal proceedings before the Department of Homeland Security, including clients with various criminal issues.. Ms. Scheuerlein is the vice president of the executive board for Centro Romero, a non-profit organization dedicated to serving the immigrant community in Chicago. She is also active in the Chicago Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, serving as a member and co-chair of various committees since her graduation from the DePaul University College of Law in May 2013. Ms. Scheuerlein is dedicated to serving her community, regularly speaking at Know Your Rights and other community presentations. In her free time, she is an avid yoga practitioner and rescue dog lover.

Kelli A. Fennell is an Partner at Hughes Socol Piers Resnick & Dym, Ltd. She concentrates her practice in the areas of immigration and nationality matters. These include family-based immigration issues, naturalization, asylum, U visa, and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival applications. Ms. Fennell represents clients in removal proceedings before the Department of Homeland Security, including clients with various criminal issues. Her practice also encompasses a wide breadth of business-related immigration topics, including nonimmigrant work visas, and employment based permanent residence applications.. Ms. Fennell currently serves as a co-chair of the American Immigration Lawyers Association’s Advocacy Committee.  She previously served as a co-chair of the Chicago Bar Association’s Immigration and Nationality Law Committee. She has provided volunteer services to women and children refugees detained in Dilley, Texas through the CARA Probono Project and is an advocate for comprehensive immigration reform.

Keith Southam is the founder and principal of Southam Law. Keith has built a career around helping immigrants. Keith worked as an international student advisor and an ESL teacher before law school. In law school, Keith focused on immigration law, including an internship at the Chicago Immigration Court and a clerkship with a solo practitioner of immigration law. After law school, Keith worked for five years as an associate attorney for a boutique immigration firm in Chicago where he handled a range of immigration law matters, including family-based green cards, non-immigrant work visas, DACA, asylum, deportation defense, and many other areas. The skills as a student advisor and ESL teacher give Keith a unique approach to immigration law. This approach is centered on providing easy-to-understand and accurate information so that every client can make fully-informed decisions.

Kalman Resnick is a shareholder with Hughes Socol Piers Resnick & Dym., Ltd. Mr. Resnick’s almost 40 years of experience as an immigration law practitioner and his vast knowledge of a multiplicity of immigration practice areas contributes to his ability to advocate for and counsel his clients in the field of immigration law. In addition to immigration law, Mr. Resnick practices in the areas of labor and employment law, civil rights and constitutional law.. Mr. Resnick has practiced immigration law since 1973. He has extensive experience in virtually every area of immigration practice, including business immigration, family unification, asylum and refugee matters, nationality and citizenship issues, employer sanctions and other employment related immigration matters, the defense of foreign nationals under removal proceedings, and federal immigration matters.. He has litigated immigration cases before the U.S. Courts of Appeals, the U.S. District Court, and the Board of Immigration Appeals.. His clients include multinational corporations, medium and small-sized businesses, universities, medical centers, and individual foreign nationals and their families. He counsels corporations, unions, universities, and other non-profit organizations concerning institutional immigration policies and practices, including employment-related immigration issues.. Mr. Resnick has decades of experience representing clients in the fields of labor and employment law. He has extensive experience in collective bargaining negotiations, labor arbitration, wage and hour matter, and the litigation of labor and employment matters.. Upon graduation from law school in 1973, Mr. Resnick received a Reginald Heber Smith Fellowship to work at the 18th Street Neighborhood Legal Services Office of the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago. In 1976, he obtained private foundation funding to open the Legal Services Center for Immigrants, one of the nation’s first legal services advocacy centers for immigrant rights, which continues in operation today.

JEELANI LAW FIRM, PLC is an immigration law practice which provides legal services to individuals and businesses throughout the U.S.  With regard to immigration matters, our firm  can represent you no matter where you are located.  We handle all immigration matters including family based adjustment of status/green card cases, citizenship filings, representation of businesses and employees when filing L1A/B Petitions, H1B petitions, and Permanent Labor petitions.  In the case of investors who wish to receive status as an E1/E2 Treaty Trader/Investor or an EB-5 Investor, our office can help you structure a qualifying investment.  Our firm also litigates immigration cases dealing with delayed adjudications as well as appellate matters before the U.S. Federal Courts, U.S. Immigration Courts, USCIS and the BIA.  Given the complex nature of immigration law, inexperience can lead to many mistakes which may result in delays, denials, and loss of filing fees and valuable time.  Contact our office so that we can help you make sense of what can and needs to be done.  We will be there to represent you throughout the entire process.