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Michele Franchett is a partner at Stone Grzegorek & Gonzalez LLP.  She is admitted to the California Bar, and is a Certified Specialist in the practice of Immigration and Nationality Law.  She has over twenty years of experience in the field, and holdes the highest, preeminent "AV" rating from Martindale Hubbell.  Her current practice is focused on investor and entrepreneurial immigration, with particular emphasis on EB-5 capital group representation. She provides counsel to a number of regional centers seeking to obtain or amend regional center designations and exemplar petition approvals. Ms. Franchett serves on the EB-5 committee of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (“AILA”), the Public Policy Committee of Invest In the USA (“IIUSA”),  and is a former chair of the AILA Southern California Chapter.  Having started working in the area of U.S. immigration in 1986, Ms. Franchett has since accumulated experience encompassing virtually every area of business-based immigration. She has represented multinational corporations, research hospitals, universities, investors, entrepreneurs, academicians, artists, and entrepreneurs from around the globe.  Ms. Franchett has also represented clients applying for visas at U.S. Consulates in Toronto, Halifax, and Ciudad Juarez, and at the U.S. Embassy in Seoul. In more recent years she traveled to China to provide EB-5 training for licensed immigration consultants.

I am a Certified Specialist in Immigration and Nationality Law with 18 years of experience in the field.  I practice immigration law exclusively, including deportation defense for lawful permanent residents, cancellation of removal for nonresidents, fraud waivers, and applications for asylum. I handle complex matters involving family-based petitions, unlawful presence waivers, citizenship and naturalization matters.. In addition to my practice before the USCIS and Immigration Courts,  I have extensive experience litigating immigration cases before various U.S. District Courts, Circuit Courts of Appeal and the U.S. Supreme Court. I am admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of the United States, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth and Fourth Circuits, and the United States District Courts for the Central and Eastern Districts of California and the District of Columbia.. I am an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), the Executive Committee for the Immigration Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA), and a member of the advisory committee for the Los Angeles Office of Kids in Need of Defense (KIND).

I am committed to providing clients with personalized, accessible, and creative immigration law representation. Like most areas of law, not to mention life in general, immigration law practice and interactions with government agencies are increasingly standardized.  My response to the bureaucratic nature of the world is to focus more on a personal approach to immigration law because, ultimately, immigration decisions are intensely personal and often very stressful. My goal as an attorney is to achieve my clients’ goals while limiting the stress of the immigration process.. Located in the Mile High City of Denver - Colorado, in Lincoln Center, Bakken Law - Law Firm of Timothy R. Bakken, P.C. has provided comprehensive legal services in U.S. immigration and naturalization matters since 1996. While our emphasis is on employment-based immigration, we also represent individuals and families. We dedicate ourselves to helping you achieve your dream of living and working in the United States.. We provide responsive and diligent representation in all aspects of employment- and family-based immigrant (green card), nonimmigrant, and naturalization and citizenship matters.  We have extensive experience with PERM labor certification applications, National Interest Waivers, permanent residence petitions for professionals and multinational transferee managers and executives, Extraordinary Ability petitions for immigrant and nonimmigrant artists, musicians, and scientists, H-1B visas, L-1 visas, E-2 visas, O and P visas, and all aspects of family-based immigration including same-sex marriage petitions and family matters related to waivers of inadmissibility.  We also represent individuals in removal (deportation) proceedings in Immigration Court and provide evaluation of possible immigration consequences of criminal convictions.. Bakken Law is located in Denver, Colorado and represents businesses and individuals throughout Colorado, the U.S., and around the world.. Timothy R. BakkenFounder

Experienced Immigration attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.

Experienced Immigration attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.

Attorney Michael Shane practices exclusively in the area of Immigration and Nationality law.  Michael Shane is an inaugural member of the Immigration and Nationality Law Certification committee. The committee was founded in 1995. As an inaugural member, Michael Shane was among the first Immigration attorneys in the state of Florida to become a Florida Bar Board Certified specialist in Immigration. The prestigious distinction of being a certified specialist in Immigration places Michael Shane in an elite category among his fellow Immigration attorneys.. After Michael Shane graduated magna cum laude from State University of New York in 1974, he attended the University of Miami School of Law. He graduated from Miami with his Juris Doctor in 1977 and was thereafter admitted to practice law in Florida and the United States District Court, Southern District of Florida.. From 1986 to 1987, Michael Shane was President of the American Immigration and Lawyers Association (AILA). He maintains an active role on the Board of Directors of AILA.. Since 1984, Michael Shane has been a contributing author and speaker during the Florida Bar and AILA annual seminars on Immigration Law. Also, Michael Shane has been a Chairman of the Continuing Legal Education Committee since 2000.. Michael Shane was also recently named 2018 Lawyer of the Year by Best Lawyers for immigration law in Fort Lauderdale.

Experienced Immigration attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.

Experienced Immigration attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.

Experienced Immigration attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.

Married to an immigrant, I have gone through the immigration process by sponsring my husband as well, and I know that stressful feeling. Committted to dealing fairly with clients and making the process easier and more streamlined. I have downsized my practice in 2014 to exclude immigration court cases, which allows me to be present in the office and have direct contact with clients and their cases. I love my clients like family. Always there to help.

Experienced Immigration attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.

Experienced Immigration attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.

Dustin is the principal attorney at Dyer Immigration Law Group, P.C., a full-service immigration law firm founded in 2001 that today has offices in Richmond and Fredericksburg. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and Spanish from the University of Richmond in 1994 where he was recognized for his outstanding scholarship by the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures. He received a Juris Doctorate degree from the Temple University School of Law in 1997 where he was a member of the Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review.. While in law school, Dustin clerked for the Supreme Court of Argentina and the largest law firm in Mexico. Prior to joining the firm, he served as an Assistant District Defender with the Louisville-Jefferson County Public Defender in Louisville, Kentucky and worked as a Managing Attorney with the Central American Resource Center in Washington, DC, where he provided low-cost legal services to the local immigrant community.. Dustin has distinguished himself as an expert in the field of United States immigration law. He has worked as an Adjunct Professor of Legal Studies at South University in Richmond, and regularly serves as a point of contact for local news media seeking his immigration expertise. Dustin has testified before the Virginia General Assembly in support of amending state laws to the benefit of immigrants and the Commonwealth of Virginia as a whole, and has shared his knowledge with other attorneys by presenting at state and nationally-sponsored bar events. Dustin recently presented at the 2015 American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) National Conference on a panel entitled "Overcoming Challenging Bona Fides Issues.". Dustin can be heard every Thursday on Radio Poder Richmond 1380AM from 11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. where he hosts a live call-in immigration radio show in Spanish.. Areas of Practice: 100% Immigration & Naturalization. Bar Admissions: Kentucky, 1997 Virginia, 2000 U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, 2004 U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia, 2012. Education:University of Richmond, B.A., 1994Temple University School of Law, J.D., 1997. Cited Cases: A Cut Above Ceramic Tile, 2010-PER-00224 (Mar. 8, 2012) en banc decision of the Board of Alien Labor Certification Appeals (BALCA).. Languages:Fully bilingual (Spanish and English written and spoken)

Past National President/Past General Counsel, American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), Washington, D.C.; Cleveland, Ohio based immigration attorney; blogger; photographer; educator; world traveler.

Experienced Immigration attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.

I try to understand my clients' issues from their point of view. I strive to earn my clients' trust by putting their needs first. I believe in providing quality attention to my clients.. A Florida native, I graduated from Florida International University with a Bachelor in Science in 1998 and later obtained my law degree from Barry University in 2006. I am a member of the Florida Bar and a member of the Bars of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida and the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida and a member of the Broward County Bar Association.. Prior to opening my firm, I was employed at a prestigious law firm in Miami.  Since 2007, I have handled thousands of cases involving State and Federal Issues. Currently the focus of my firm is on consumer bankruptcy cases involving Chapter 7 and Chapter 13, debt management and family cases.

Experienced Immigration attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.

Experienced Immigration attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.

Multilingual attorney, immigration specialist, Board of Certified in Immigration and Nationality Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization since December 2003, with personal and professional experience in the immigration process. Abogada plurilingüe, Certificada en Ley de Inmigración y Ley de Nacionalidad por la Junta de Especialización Legal de Texas desde diciembre 2003 con experiencia personal y profesional en el proceso de inmigración.

Experienced Immigration attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.