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Angeline Chen represents employers, employees, investors, students, and individuals in family-based immigration matters, and represents victims of certain crimes (U visa) and victims of domestic violence (VAWA). She works with businesses and employees in obtaining temporary work visas (H-1B, O, E-2, L-1, TN) and permanent residence for individuals such as professionals (EB-2, EB-3), executives (EB-1), investors (EB-5), entertainers, registered nurses, and individuals with extraordinary ability, including those in the sciences, arts, education, business, and athletic fields. Angeline also assists permanent residents in becoming US citizens, including application preparation and representation at the interview with the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).. Prior to joining Clark Hill, Angeline worked with the Shusterman group for over 4 years. Prior to that, she was a solo practitioner for 11 years in San Marino and Pasadena, CA. She has been interviewed on CNN, CTV, radio shows and featured on an article in for her pro bono work at the border as the co-founder of Rise to Reunite.. Angeline is also the President of the Board of Directors of YWCA Pasadena and a Board member of El Rio Community School. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), and the Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA).. She earned her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and received a Certificate of Study from the School of Business and Public Policy at Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania School of Business. Angeline graduated cum laude from the University of California, Irvine, where she earned a B.A. in Sociology, with a minor in Philosophy and Criminology, Law and Society.

Angel Lalama is an immigration lawyer based in Los Angeles who serves the immigrant community throughout the United States and abroad. Angel’s experience with immigration law began in 2013, when he represented victims of domestic violence, human trafficking, and persons in ICE custody, as a law clerk with the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles and his law school’s Immigration Clinic. Angel was raised by his parents who came to the United States from Ecuador in the late 1970’s. It is because of his upbringing that Angel can now bring to every one of his cases a unique understanding as to the many obstacles faced by immigrants in this country, whether it is a recent arrival fleeing their home country, someone living in the United States for decades without any legal status, or a foreign-born worker looking for employment opportunities in the U.S. Since attaining his law license in 2014, Angel has successfully represented hundreds of clients in family & employment-based immigration, waivers, naturalization, U Visas, VAWA, DACA and in immigration courts throughout the United States, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, New York, among others. Angel speaks English and Spanish and has been admitted to the State Bar of California, United States District Court of California Central District, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.. I do not check avvo direct messages. Please call my office to schedule a consultation.

Andrew Knapp is an adjunct professor at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles, California and Western State College of Law in Irvine, California, where he teaches both law schools’ Ninth Circuit Appellate Litigation Clinics. In that capacity, he regularly serves, along with his law students, as appointed pro bono counsel for immigration cases assigned through the Ninth Circuit’s law school clinic pro bono program. Andrew and his law students have won most of their pro bono Ninth Circuit appointed immigration cases, including Chavez Garcia v. Sessions, 871 F.3d 991 (9th Cir. 2017), Dimaya v. Lynch, 803 F.3d 1110 (9th Cir. 2015), Muniz Alvarado v. Lynch, 603 . 637 (9th Cir. 2015), Gomez Ponce v. Holder, 571 . 528 (9th Cir. 2014), and Hernandez v. Holder, 738 F.3d 1099 (9th Cir. 2013). The clinic’s big win in Dimaya v. Lynch was affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court in a 5 to 4 decision, Sessions v. Dimaya, 138 S.Ct. 1204 (2018), in which Justice Kagan, writing for the majority, affirmed the Ninth Circuit’s invalidation of a criminal removal provision as unconstitutionally void for vagueness. Andrew also successfully moved the Ninth Circuit in Marinelarena v. Sessions, 886 F.3d 737 (9th Cir. 2018), to reconsider, before an 11 judge panel, the only case he and his Southwestern Appellate Litigation Clinic lost in a published decision (Marinelarena v. Sessions, 869 F.3d 780 (9th Cir. 2017). Subsequently, the 11 judge en banc panel, ruling 8 to 3, flipped this decision in Marinelarena v. Barr, 930 F.3d 1039 (9th Cir. 2019).. Andrew also serves as the Chief Financial Officer and lead volunteer attorney for Immigrant Access to Justice Assistance (“IAJA”), a charitable nonprofit which provides pro bono representation before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to disadvantaged noncitizens who would otherwise go without legal representation. Andrew’s last full time employment was as a staff attorney for the Board of Immigration Appeals in Falls Church, Virginia, from 2010 to 2011, drafting decisions for three Board member panels. Before that, he practiced immigration law in Los Angeles for over 10 years with Cifuentes Knapp & Associates, and for nearly 4 years in Orange County as a solo practitioner. Prior to that, he worked for the former U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service as an asylum officer in the mid 1990’s.. For over the past 25 years, Andrew has successfully represented numerous noncitizens before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. In all of his published cases, his clients have prevailed both before the Ninth Circuit, and, on remand, before the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) and the Immigration Court. Andrew’s BIA wins include Matter of Ordaz, 26 I&N Dec. 637 (BIA 2015), abrogated in part on other grounds by the U.S. Supreme Court in Pereira v. Sessions, S.Ct. , 2018 WL 3058276 (June 21, 2018) (holding that a notice to appear that was served but never resulted in the commencement of removal proceedings does not have “stop time” effect for purposes of establishing eligibility for cancellation of removal). Andrew’s published Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals wins include: Chavez Garcia v. Sessions, 871 F.3d 991 (9th Cir. 2017) (holding that the Immigration Judge’s failure to inform Chavez-Garcia that his departure from the United States would constitute a waiver of his previously reserved right to appeal rendered his purported appeal waiver constitutionally invalid); Dimaya v. Lynch, 803 F.3d 1110 (9th Cir. 2015) (striking down a criminal deportation statute as unconstitutionally void for vagueness); Hernandez v. Holder, 738 F.3d 1099 (9th Cir. 2013) (holding that the Board of Immigration Appeals’ “place of filing” rule – mandating that a motion to reopen must be filed with the Immigration Judge after the Board dismisses a direct appeal on timeliness grounds – is not a jurisdictional bar to the Board’s authority to reopen removal proceedings); Mejia Hernandez v. Holder, 633 F.3d 818 (9th Cir. 2011) (finding a motion to reopen filing deadline equitably tolled for nearly seven years and that the petitioner’s waiting for his wife’s application to be adjudicated first was reasonable under the circumstances and did not show a lack of due diligence); De Rodriguez Echeverria v. Mukasey, 534 F.3d 1047 (9th Cir. 2008) (remanding where the Immigration Judge “erred in determining that Rodriguez was not under arrest at the time she gave her incriminating statement”); Recinos De Leon v. Gonzales, 400 F.3d 1185 (9th Cir. 2005) (where the Immigration Judge’s opinion was “literally incomprehensible” and the BIA summarily affirmed without opinion, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals could not review the substance of the decision and was required to remand); Reyes Melendez v. INS, 342 F.3d 1001 (9th Cir. 2003) (remanding where the Immigration Judge was “aggressive,” “snide,” and accused the noncitizen of moral impropriety, and where the Judge’s bias precluded full consideration of the noncitizen’s relevant hardship factors); Guadalupe Cruz v. INS, 240 F.3d 1209 (9th Cir. 2001) (holding that the BIA erred by not correcting the due process violation committed by the Immigration Judge’s erroneous application of the newly enacted “stop time” rule before its April 1, 1997 effective date).. Andrew’s accolades include the Alumni Achievement Award he was conferred on November 5, 2016 by his alma mater, Western State Law School, and the Ninth Circuit Distinguished Pro Bono Award, he and his supervising professor, Professor Gowri Ramachandran, were awarded by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit at a ceremony at the Ninth Circuit’s Pasadena courthouse on September 26, 2018.. Andrew has participated as a panelist on many immigration law conference programs presented by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and local and national bar associations, including the June 15, 2018 American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) Annual Conference seminar entitled “Preventing the Demise of Due Process,” the June 23, 2017 AILA Annual Conference seminar entitled “Void for Vagueness: How to Apply Johnson in the Immigration Context,” the January 14, 2016 United States Court of Appeals “Immigration Law Training,” the December 13, 2014 Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA) seminar entitled “Practicing Immigration Law before the Ninth Circuit and U.S. District Court,” the November 9, 2012 AILA California Chapters Conference seminar entitled “The Modified Categorical Approach in the Ninth Circuit,” the November 13, 2009 AILA California Chapters Conference seminar entitled “ICE Update - The ICE Storm,” the March 11, 2008 National AILA audio seminar entitled “TPS: What Kind of Status Is It?,” the October 24, 2012 AILA Southern California Chapter (SoCal AILA) seminar entitled “Beyond the Master Calendar Hearing: An Introductory Overview of Removal Defense for Newer Practitioners and Refresher Course for Existing Practitioners,” the March 17, 2010 SoCal AILA seminar entitled “Ninth Circuit Update,” the July 22, 2009 SoCal AILA seminar entitled “Nuances of Unlawful Presence,” the August 28, 2008 SoCal AILA seminar entitled “Immigration Court Practice Manual,” the July 20, 2006 SoCal AILA seminar entitled “Reinstatement of Removal and I 212 Waivers After Fernandez Vargas,” the May 27, 2004 Mexican American Bar Association (MABA) seminar entitled “Fighting Back Against the Unauthorized Practice of Law,” the May 15, 2003 SoCal AILA seminar entitled “Asylum/NACARA Update,” the June 27, 2002 MABA seminar entitled “How to do a Successful Motion to Reopen Before the Immigration Court,” and the November 3, 2001 AILA California Chapters Conference seminar entitled “KUTV New Channels for Victims of Crimes and Lonesome Spouses.”. Andrew’s articles and publications include:. “Void for Vagueness: How to Apply Johnson in the Immigration Context,” published in the 2017 American Immigration Lawyers Association Annual Conference Handbook. Editor, 2013 American Immigration Lawyers Association California Chapters Conference Handbook. “The Modified Categorical Approach in the Ninth Circuit,” published in the 2012 American Immigration Lawyers Association California Chapters Conference Handbook. “ICE Update The ICE Storm,” published in the 2009 American Immigration Lawyers Association California Chapters Conference Handbook. BIA Finds Service Of OSC On Two Year Old Defective For Failure To Serve The Child’s Mother (,0927 ). Reopening Deportation Proceedings: A Look At Applicable Exceptions To Motions To Reopen (,0214 ). Andrew’s unpublished BIA victories are available on the internet at:. Hugo Alvarado Cortez A070 781 971 BIA Mar 10 2014 (vacating the denial of an I 130 step-parent, post-divorce, visa petition because the “case law does not require proof of active parenting and continuing financial support by a step parent.”). Daniel Nava A099 317 368 BIA March 30 2012 (reducing the bond set by an immigration judge from $20,000 to $7,500 for a criminal noncitizen with a pending Ninth Circuit appeal under Casas Castrillon v. DHS, 535 F.3d 942 (9th Cir. 2008)). Maritza Santos Ardon A073 904 816 BIA Aug 27 2013 (reopening proceedings for a single mother to apply for suspension of deportation as the parent of a U.S. born child who was battered by the child’s other, lawful permanent resident parent). (finding the service of the deportation charging document on a two year old defective for failure to serve the child’s mother)

Alan Diamante is the founding attorney at Diamante Law Group. A skilled Los Angeles immigration lawyer, he brings nearly 25 years of legal experience to the firm. Mr. Diamante has handled and taken part in numerous notable cases throughout his expansive legal career. Among these were several immigration cases that ultimately changed public opinion, DHS regulations, and federal immigration laws. In 2002, Mr. Diamante successfully defended a Salvadorian immigrant who was facing deportation largely due to his outspoken beliefs regarding corruption in the Los Angeles Police Department’s Rampart Division.At the firm, Mr. Diamante handles a broad range of immigration matters, ranging from employment- and family-based immigration to deportation defense to detention release to political asylum. He has helped immigrants seeking naturalization/citizenship, green cards, and safety in the United States. Above all else, Mr. Diamante is passionate about protecting the rights of all people, including immigrants and their families.

Admissions. United States Supreme Court. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. United States District Court for the Central District of California. United States District Court of the Northern District of California. All California State Courts. Memberships. Los Angeles County Bar Association. American Immigration Lawyers Association. Education. Georgetown University Law Center, J.D.. Georgetown University, B.S.F.S.

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