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Valentine A. Brown is a partner at Duane Morris LLP in the Employment, Labor, Benefits and Immigration Practice Group. She serves as global immigration law counsel to a diverse group of multi-national and domestic corporations and their employees, providing advice, compliance audits and representation to help navigate the intricacies of US and foreign immigration laws. Ms. Brown also represents individuals in all types of immigration proceedings, including persons of extraordinary ability; spouses, fiancées and children of US citizens; naturalization and political asylum applicants; as well as respondents in deportation and immigration appellate proceedings.. Ms. Brown is an instructor for the Duane Morris Institute, which provides training in all areas of employment law for human resource professionals, in house counsel, benefits administrators and managers through classes in Philadelphia, client-site trainings and webinars. Ms. Brown’s courses include, I-9 Compliance Basics; E-Verify for Everyone; E-Verify for Federal Contractors, Electronic I-9s: The Pros, the Cons and the Requirements; and H-1B Public Access Files: What Employers Need to Know.. Ms. Brown is a former law clerk to the Honorable John. J. Gossart, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Baltimore, Maryland, a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Baltimore School of Law and a graduate of the University of Delaware. She is fluent in Spanish and conversant in French.

Rosa has been practicing law since 2006 after graduating from Rutgers School of Law.. Rosa's primary focus is on Immigration Defense and Family Petitions.  Prior to law school, Rosa served as a Deportation Officer for 4 years, involved in the detention and release procedures of ICE (then INS), which gave her invaluable experience.  Rosa has been successful in defending clients in removal proceedings, bond hearings, motions to reopen and appeals.  Rosa also provides representation in family and employment based petitions, visas, applications for permanent residence and citizenship.  She provides representation nationwide.. Rosa is proficient in Spanish and Italian.. Rosa represents clients in criminal matters throughout the State of New Jersey and in Federal Court.  This experience allows her to assess matters that involve both criminal and immigration issues.

Katelyn joined Gian-Grasso, Tomczak, & Hufe, P.C. as a partner in June 2015. She is a member in good standing of the Pennsylvania Bar and the New Jersey Bar. She is also admitted to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. Katelyn focuses her practice exclusively on immigration law but also has experience in the area of family law.. Katelyn focuses a significant portion of her practice on deportation defense, litigation, appeals, and protecting clients with final orders of removal. She focuses largely on complex litigation cases. She has successfully litigated cases before the Board of Immigration Appeals, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. She has experience successfully representing clients in Immigration Court in Philadelphia, Newark, New York City, Minnesota, Buffalo, and Arlington. Katelyn handles various types of litigation cases including asylum, cancellation of removal, adjustment of status, waivers, motions to reopen and motions to suppress evidence. In the detained setting, she has successfully obtained bond, parole, and stays of removal for clients. She has succeeded in reopening final orders of deportation before the Board of Immigration Appeals and the Immigration Courts.. Katelyn has also brought to GTH Law her knowledge and experience in the business immigration sector. She helps companies with various types of business immigration petitions such as L-1 visas for intra-company transferees, E-2 investor visas, E-1 trade visas, H-1B visas, and national interest waivers. Katelyn is an active member of the Italy America Chamber of Commerce of Greater Philadelphia and has a particular interest in working with start-ups and entrepreneurs.. Katelyn also has extensive experience with humanitarian-based relief. She has experience assisting victims of crimes and victims of domestic violence to obtain legal status through the U-visa program. She also has experience advocating for domestic violence victims through applications under the Violence Against Women Act (“VAWA”). She has represented clients at marriage interviews, asylum interviews, and naturalization interviews and has experience with various other immigration applications including fiancé visas, F-1 student visas, B1/B2 visitor visas, applications for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, and applications for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (“DACA”).. Katelyn is an active member of the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (“AILA”) and has attended the annual conference in 2013, 2014, and 2015. She served as the Conference Committee Co-Chair in 2014, planning the Philadelphia AILA Annual Conference. Currently, Katelyn in serving as the Philadelphia Ambassador for the American Immigration Council (“AIC”). She is also a member of AILA’s Pro Bono Committee, the Berks County Pro Bono Collaborative Committee, and has mentored non-immigration attorneys in pro bono asylum cases.. Katelyn is currently the director of the Federal Litigation and Appeals Clinic at Drexel University’s Kline School of Law. In the clinic, Professor Hufe supervises students handling cases on behalf of immigrants in federal and state courts, in accordance with local student practice rules.. Katelyn is an active member of the Philadelphia Bar Association and serves as the Immigration Law Liaison for the Young Lawyers Division. Katelyn has served as a speaker at Temple University and Villanova University School of Law. She has also presented on a Waivers Panel at the Welcoming Center for New Pennsylvanians.. Katelyn received her BA from the University of Delaware’s Honors Program, and graduated cum laude from the Earle Mack School of Law at Drexel University in 2011. During her time at Drexel, she focused her coursework in areas such as Immigration Law, Refugee and Asylum Law, and Immigration Litigation. After majoring in Foreign Languages & Literature and completing study abroad programs in Spain and Italy, she is proficient in Spanish and Italian. After graduating from the University of Delaware in 2007, Katelyn worked as a bilingual paralegal at Doroshow, Pasquale, Krawitz, and Bhaya in Wilmington, Delaware. She worked with Spanish-speaking clients in the Workers Compensation and Personal Injury departments.. Throughout her final year at Drexel, Katelyn interned for the Executive Office for Immigration Review at Philadelphia Immigration Court. She drafted decisions for the immigration judges on topics such as asylum, fraud, I-601 waivers, crimes involving moral turpitude and adjustment of status. She had the opportunity to work with each immigration judge and the Court’s judicial law clerk.. After graduating from Drexel, Katelyn was accepted into the 2011-2012 Law Clerk Program at Berner, Klaw, and Watson, LLP in Philadelphia. She worked primarily on family law cases involving divorce, support, custody, and protection from abuse orders. She presented on the subject of the applicability of the I-864 Affidavit of Support in spousal support cases at a joint meeting of the Family Law Section and the Immigration Law Committee of the Philadelphia Bar. Following her time at Berner, Klaw, and Watson, Katelyn practiced immigration law for three years prior to joining Gian-Grasso, Tomczak, & Hufe, P.C.

I represent clients before the Immigration Court (EOIR), USCIS, and other sub-agencies of the Department of Homeland Security such as Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs & Border Protection (CBP).  I have over a decade of experience within the immigration law field in matters such as, but not limited to: family-based permanent residency, employment-based permanent residency (PERM, I-140, EB1), deportation defense (cancellation of removal, asylum, adjustment of status, litigation), VAWA, nonimmigrant work visas (H-1B), naturalization, U visas, P visas and other speciality nonimmigrant visas. I am licensed to practice law in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

I have extensive experience with family-based immigration and naturalization cases, non-immigrant visas, deportation defense, and appellate work. I obtained my Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania in 2001.  I earned my J.D. from Villanova Law School in 2006, During my time at Villanova, I participated in the Clinic for Asylum Refugee and Emigrant Services Clinic (CARES). Through CARES, I had the opportunity to travel to Malta to prepare and represent unaccompanied minors from the Horn of Africa for asylum hearings before the Maltese Refugee Commission. I am admitted to both the Pennsylvania and New Jersey State Bars. I am also admitted to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the District Court of New Jersey, and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.  I am the past Chairman of the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA).

Attorney Alex Isbell is one of the founding partners of Palladino, Isbell, and Casazza, LLC with offices in Philadelphia and Media, PA. Prior to that he was a founding member of Solow , Isbell & Palladino LLC, one of the leading immigration only firms in the Delaware Valley. Prior to co-founding Solow, Isbell & Palladino LLC he was a senior attorney at a boutique immigration law firm in suburban Philadelphia, PA where he worked as a law clerk from 2004-2005 and as an attorney from 2005 until 2008. Attorney Isbell is experienced in representing individuals in immigration court and before USCIS in a variety of matters. Types of cases that Mr. Isbell has handled in immigration court in the past include asylum, withholding of removal, protection under the Convention Against Torture, adjustment of status, and cancellation of removal. Mr. Isbell also has significant experience with appellate immigration matters such as appeals to the Board of Immigration Appeals, the USCIS Administrative Appeals Office (AAO), the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He is admitted to practice before the US Supreme Court, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He is also a member of the bar of the US District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the Northern District of Illinois, and the District of Columbia.. In addition handling family-based immigration matters and immigration litigation/appellate matters of all types, Mr. Isbell represents individuals and corporations related to non-immigrant employment-based immigration benefits such as H-1B visas; P-1 visas for athletes and their support staff; O-1 visas for athletes, business people, and artists; TN visas for professionals and academics; and students with complex F-1 student visa issues, such as reinstatement of status. He has also successfully helped individuals obtain U.S. permanent residency through the EB-1, EB-2 processes, and EB-2 special recruitment processes.. Mr. Isbell received his J.D. from Villanova University in 2005 and was a member of Villanova’s competitive Environmental Law Journal from 2003-2005. He was also a member of Villanova’s CARES clinic where he successfully represented several clients in removal proceedings, and performed independent research related to trafficking in men and boys around the world in at the request of Catholic Relief Services. In 2005 Mr. Isbell received the Villanova Alumni Association’s Award for Pro Bono Service in recognition of the 185 hours of pro bono legal assistance he provided while in law school, and he was selected by Villanova University School of Law’s Legal Writing Faculty to act as a Legal Writing Teaching Assistant in 2004-2005. Prior to attending Villanova University School of Law, Mr. Isbell received a B.A. in Political Science from Boston College in 1999 and was a Fulbright Grantee at the University of Helsinki in 1999-2000.