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Beata Leja is a Partner at the law firm of Minsky, McCormick & Hallagan, P.C. Beata's practice includes both employment-based and family-based immigration law. She is an active member of the Chicago Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), where she has served on the LGBT Committee, the Customs & Border Protection (CBP) Liaison Committee, the Illinois Department of Employment Security (IDES) & Department of Labor (DOL) Liaison Committee, as well as many others. She is also a member of the Federal Bar Association, the Women's Bar Association, and the Advocates Society for Polish lawyers. In 2015, 2016, and 2017, she was named an Emerging Lawyer in Immigration Law by Leading Lawyers, a distinction given to only 2% of lawyers licensed to practice law in Illinois. She has also been recognized as a Rising Star in Immigration by Super Lawyers Magazine in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017, and awarded the Pro Bono Guardian award by AILA for her pro bono services to the immigrant community. Beata has conducted seminars about immigration law for students, employers, employees and attorneys. She is admitted to practice law in the State of Illinois and in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.. Beata is a 2007 graduate of Loyola University Chicago School of Law, where she was a member of the Niagara International Moot Court Team (3rd Best Oralist). Prior to law school, she was a teacher in the Chicago Public Schools as a corps member of the national service corps Teach for America. She has a Master of Education from National–Louis University and two Bachelor's degrees in Spanish and International Relations from the University of Southern California. She is fluent in Polish and conversant in Spanish.

Erin practices immigration law exclusively. She focuses her practice on removal defense, family-based immigration, protection-based relief -- including VAWA, U visas, and asylum -- and federal court work, including mandamus actions as well as appellate work at the Courts of Appeals. She worked with immigrants even before obtaining her law degree, as an ESL teacher in Chicago and abroad.

Attorney Iskra Panteva is a skilled immigration attorney who established Panteva Law Group, LLC to help businesses and families achieve their goals. Offering a wide range of immigration services – including business, employment-based, family immigration, and citizenship – Attorney Panteva strives to help clients make important decisions that can affect their lives deeply. Before founding Panteva Law Group, LLC, Attorney Panteva practiced immigration at various private practices. She earned her J.D. at Loyola University Chicago School of Law and is an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, CVLS, and AILA National Pro Bono Liaisons.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Trusted and compassionate pro bono and public interest attorney with extensive leadership experience on access to justice issues for immigrants and consumers over two decades. Excel at listening and crafting strategy in sensitive and intricate cases across family immigration, consular practice, removal defense, and refugee and asylum law. I started my immigration practice out of necessity during law school as a limited-means and first-generation college student in immigration proceedings, confronting significant and unexplained delays. As a previous international student and international worker in three countries, I am committed to humane global migration.

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.

I am a partner in the immigration and nationality law practice of Davidson & Seseri, LLC. It was my own immigration to the United States as a ten-year-old child, and my experience as my husband's immigration sponsor that attracted me towards a career in immigration defense.. I joined Davidson and Schiller as a case manager in 2009 and stayed on as an attorney following my graduation from Chicago-Kent College of Law in 2010. In February 2017, I had the great privilege of creating a new legal practice alongside my long-time colleague and mentor, Mark Davidson.. As an attorney with Davidson and Seseri, I concentrate on family based immigration, removal defense, and asylum. Additionally, I have extensive experience with Religious Worker petitions, VAWA, U visa, J-1 waivers and INA 212(e) issues, Waivers of Inadmissibility, and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.. Outside of work, I love to spend time with my husband, daughters, and extended family.

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.

I am a founding member of the Law Firm of Khalaf & Abuzir, LLC. I have been practicing primarily immigration law for more than 18 years covering all aspects of immigration law, with a particular concentration on litigation in Federal District Court and matters that come before the Executive Office of Immigration Review (Immigration Court). I hold a J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology and a B.S. in Political Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago.. I have represented clients in or facing deportation and/or removal proceedings due to a wide variety of circumstances. I have also represented hundreds of clients seeking some form of immigrant or non-immigrant status or relief from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service. I am a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Assocation and member of the the Illinois State Bar and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. I am fluent in English, Arabic and Spanish.