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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.

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.

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.

I focus on guiding my clients through the labyrinthine immigration system and helping them achieve their immigration goals. My approach is client based; meaning, I provide my clients with all their options, walk them through the pros and cons and, together, we decide on the best course of action.. My practice consists largely of removal defense, family based immigration and protection based claims. I regularly practice before the Immigration Court, Board of Immigration Appeals, U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services and the Department of State.  I am an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers Assocation.. Prior to joining Kempster, Corcoran, Quiceno & Lenz-Calvo, Ltd., I had the privilege of serving the Chicago immigrant community as a supervising attorney at the National Immigrant Justice Center, a non-for-profit legal service provider.. I have studied in Rome and Oxford.  After law school I accepted an internship position with Al Haq, a legal human rights organization in Ramallah, Palestine.

I began working with immigrant communities in 1999 as a VISTA Volunteer  at the Political Asylum Project of Austin in Texas (now American Gateways).. I have been an attorney with Kempster, Corcoran, Quiceno & Lenz-Calvo, Ltd. (formerly Kempster Keller & Lenz-Calvo, Ltd.) since 2006 and practice exclusively in immigration and nationality law. I assist families, employers and individuals with a wide array of immigration processes from obtaining 'green cards' to citizenship. I also focus on employment-based immigration, including labor certification, researcher petitions, H-1Bs and other less common nonimmigrant visa types (O-1, P-1/3, etc.). I also work closely with investors to obtain nonimmigrant (E-1, E-2) or immigrant status (EB-5).. I am an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) having appeared as a featured speaker at conferences and contributed to articles on employment- based immigration topics.. .

I am a founding partner of Valdez & Vilim, LLP and of my previous firm, Valdez Vilim & Wunrow, LLP. I focus my practice in the area of immigration and nationality law, including family-based immigration, humanitarian immigration (asylum, VAWA, U Visas, T Visas and SIJS), naturalization, immigration appeals, and removal defense. I represent clients with cases before the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of State, and the Department of Justice. I have been selected to the 2019, 2020 and 2021 Illinois Rising Star list by Super Lawyers, an honor that is received by no more than 2.5% of attorneys within Illinois.. In addition to maintaining my own private practice, I am a Practitioner in Residence with the Asylum & Refugee Law Clinic at DePaul University’s College of Law. In that role, I mentor immigration practitioners at community-based organizations in the Chicago area and gives presentations on removal defense. During the 2017-2018 school year, I was an adjunct professor at Valparaiso University School of Law, where I taught and supervised the immigration law clinic.. Prior to co-founding Valdez & Vilim, LLP, I practiced immigration law at a private firm in Chicago. I also served a 2-year term as an Attorney Advisor through the U.S. Attorney General Honors Program at the Chicago Immigration Court, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Department of Justice. I have a background in human rights and advocacy work, which I gained by working at Amnesty International before I became an attorney.. I speak Spanish. I am a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and sit on the AILA EOIR Liaison Committee and Midwest Regional Conference Planning Committee. I have been invited to speak at events sponsored by the Chicago Bar Association’s Immigration and Nationality Committee as well as community organizations such as the Albany Park Community Center, Southwest Organizing Project, and Latinos Progresando. I obtained my J.D. cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center with a Certificate in Refugee and Humanitarian Emergencies. I obtained my B.A. magna cum laude in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame. I am admitted to practice law in Illinois.

Giovanna Valdez is a founding partner of Valdez & Vilim, LLP and of her prior firm, Valdez Vilim & Wunrow, LLP. She focuses her practice in the area of immigration and nationality law, including family-based immigration, humanitarian immigration (asylum, VAWA, U Visas, T Visas and SIJS), naturalization, immigration appeals, and removal defense. She represents clients with cases before the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of State, and the Department of Justice. She was selected to the 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 Illinois Rising Star List by Super Lawyers.. Ms. Valdez is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) where she served as the co-chair of the USCIS District Director committee and Ethics committee. As District Director co-chair, Ms. Valdez spoke at the 2018 Fall Family and Removal Conference and the 2019 AILA Annual Conference on Immigration Law. Ms. Valdez is also on the board of directors for Latinos Progressando, a nonprofit organization in Chicago.. In law school, Ms. Valdez was an active member of the Society of Asylum and Immigration Law. In addition, for three years she was a volunteer student attorney at the DePaul College of Law Asylum and Immigration Law Clinic focusing on Removal Defense and U non-immigrant visas. Throughout law school, Ms. Valdez interned for influential Chicago non-profit organizations providing immigration services for underserved communities.. Prior to co-founding Valdez Vilim & Wunrow, Ms. Valdez practiced immigration law at a private firm in Chicago for 5 years. Ms. Valdez received her B.A. in Marketing with a Concentration in Professional Sales from Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois. She earned her J.D. from DePaul University College of Law with a certificate in Public Interest Law. Ms. Valdez is fluent in Spanish and is admitted to practice law in Illinois.

Customized U.S. immigration and visa representation for businesses, individuals and families (fiancé(e)/marriage). Temporary work visas; Green cards; U.S. citizenship; Asylum; I-9 compliance; Deportation defense; Immigration litigation in federal court. Michael is an elected director of the American Immigration Lawyers Association Board of Governors and is a past Chair of the AILA Chicago Chapter.

Attorney Scott M. Beller has more than 30 years of experience practicing immigration law, assisting hundreds of business, individuals and family members of USA immigrants reach their immigration goals, and has successfully processed hundreds of Family Based Petitions, visas, green cards and other naturalization cases. Areas of practice include Immigration and Naturalization, Family-Based Visas, Business Law, PERM/Labor Certification. Our law firm offers efficient, full service immigration services with extensive knowledge in Immigration Law Practice.

Experienced Immigration attorney serving clients in Chicago and surrounding areas.

Experienced Immigration attorney serving clients in Chicago and surrounding areas.

Experienced Immigration attorney serving clients in Chicago and surrounding areas.

Experienced Immigration attorney serving clients in Chicago and surrounding areas.

Experienced Immigration attorney serving clients in Chicago and surrounding areas.

Experienced Immigration attorney serving clients in Chicago and surrounding areas.

Experienced Immigration attorney serving clients in Chicago and surrounding areas.

Experienced Immigration attorney serving clients in Chicago and surrounding areas.

Experienced Immigration attorney serving clients in Chicago and surrounding areas.

Experienced Immigration attorney serving clients in Chicago and surrounding areas.