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Prior to founding what is now Surowitz  Immigration, PC  in 2004, the clientele Joshua Surowitz serviced consisted primarily of business employers, ranging from large enterprises to small start-ups, with a heavy concentration in the high technology and biotechnology fields. Today, Mr. Surowitz manages the firm's business and corporate immigration practice and is primarily responsible for advising the firm's business clientele concerning a wide-array of permanent and temporary employment-related immigration options. Mr. Surowitz also manages the firm's family-based, naturalization, and consular immigration matters and oversees many of the firm's complex immigration cases including immigration appeals, motions, and cases requiring waivers of inadmissibility.. Joshua Surowitz has personally been retained for consultation and representation by nationals of over 90 different countries, and regularly represents clients at U.S. Embassies and Consulates on every continent of the world. Mr. Surowitz speaks frequently about immigration legal matters to legal, community and philanthropic organizations, and has authored articles on the subject. Mr. Surowitz was named a "Rising Star" in Super Lawyers Magazine for Northern California in both 2009 and 2010. He is also a former Professor of Immigration Law at East Bay Law School in Oakland, CA.. Josh Surowitz received his Juris Doctor degree, with high honors, after completing his studies at Golden Gate University School of Law in 2002. As a law student, he served on the Moot Court Board, as well as his law school's Law Review Journal of Law and Social Change. In 2002, Mr. Surowitz received the Cali. Award for excellence in Immigration Law. He also earned a Specialization Certificate with Distinction in International Law. Mr. Surowitz served as a Judicial Extern for the Honorable Claudia Wilken, in the Federal District Court for the Northern District of California, and studied international law in Bangkok, Thailand, and Tokyo, Japan. Mr. Surowitz also previously worked in Tokyo for the Japanese Law Firm of Nakada, Matsumura and Tajime and studied at Middlesex University in London, England.. Mr. Surowitz is an active member of the State Bar of California, the Contra Costa County Bar Association, and the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

Certified as Immigration Law Specialist by the California Board of Legal Specialization of the State Bar of California.

Mr. Becker is a founding partner at Becker & Lee LLP and is certified as a specialist in immigration and nationality law by the State Bar of California’s Board of Legal Specialization. He is a graduate of Tulane Law School in New Orleans and also holds a bachelor's degree in Spanish and Psychology from the University of Montana-Missoula. Mr. Becker previously worked with three immigration law firms in the San Francisco Bay Area where he practiced all areas of immigration law. Mr. Becker represents a number of companies and individuals in the employment-based immigration context, including mid- and small-sized businesses, researchers and scientists and IT professionals. He also has litigated numerous cases before Immigration Courts and has successfully argued before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He has experience in all areas of immigration law, including removal defense, employment-based immigration, waivers, consular processing, asylum, adjustment of status and naturalization. He has been invited to speak on immigration law panels regardinginadmissibility waivers, the Defense of Marriage Act, Prosecutorial Discretion and LGBT asylum issues.

Ms. Lee is a founding partner at Becker& Lee LLP. She received her law degree, Juris Doctor, from King Hall, UC Davis School of Law in 2003, and her university degree, Bachelor of Arts in Economics, from Barnard College, Columbia University in 1999. Ms. Lee has worked with three immigration law firms in Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay Area focusing on all areas of immigration law. She has represented clients in removal proceedings before the Immigration Court, the Board of Immigration Appeals, and the Ninth Circuit. She has also represented many clients in Federal District Court filing mandamus lawsuits against the U.S. government. Including removal defense, Ms. Lee has experience in asylum, employment based immigration, family based immigration, naturalization applications, hardship and criminal waivers, consular processing, and representing victims of abuse, crimes and human trafficking. Ms. Lee served on the American Immigration Lawyer's Association (AILA) Northern California Council from 2005 to 2011—where she was the Young Lawyer's Division co-coordinator and then the Advocacy co-coordinator where she organized local and national meetings with Congressional representatives to advocate for immigration reform. She is currently a council member of the UC Davis School of Law Immigration Law Clinic Alumni Council (ILCAC). Ms. Lee is a mentor attorney for the pro bono asylum program of the Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights (LCCR), and a volunteer attorney with Centro Legal de la Raza, the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) and the Asian Law Caucus. During the summer of 2001, Ms. Lee studied international human rights law at the International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France and interned at the World Organization Against Torture in Geneva. Prior to attending law school, she worked as a community advocate at the Asian Law Caucus, a legal services organization in San Francisco. Ms. Lee is the daughter of Korean immigrants - she is fluent in conversational Korean.

My law practice emphasizes representation in the following areas of U.S. immigration and citizenship law:

I am a principal immigration attorney and founder of CSM Law Office My main focus is in the areas of immigration law, privacy and business law. Prior to this, I worked with different firms on immigration and family matters. I am licensed to practice law in California. I speak Russian, Turkish and Azerbaijani languages.

Evelyn Moon, Founder and Principal Attorney at Evelyn Moon Law PC, is a compassionate immigration attorney with over 13 years of experience representing both corporate and individual clients from all over the world. Her passion for immigration law comes out of her own experience navigating the immigration process as she moved to the United States as an immigrant, bringing a unique perspective of personally experiencing the same process as her clients.. Having a full understanding of the complex immigration process, her goal is to help her clients expand into new opportunities, overcome obstacles, and ultimately achieve their immigration goals in the U.S. By making her clients’ immigration journey as simple, easy, and seamless as possible, she wants to make sure that her clients only have fond memories of going through their immigration process.. Evelyn enjoys working with companies, developers, and project developers that are creating social and economic benefits in the U.S. through investment and business immigration.. For individual clients, Evelyn focuses on designing a simple path to achieving their immigration goals through employment/family-based immigration, thereby helping them achieve their ultimate American Dream in the U.S.. Evelyn also has a deep passion for dealing with problematic cases with some of the most challenging and complex issues and is often referred to and recognized as the “best immigration strategist” by her clients for successfully resolving the issues raised. She has a great track record of using her own creative and unique strategy to successfully refile and obtain approvals on several denied cases, including L-1As, E-2s, and EB-1A/NIWs, which were previously filed by different law firms.. Evelyn has spoken at several conferences, seminars, and other speaking engagements, covering various immigration topics. She is licensed to practice law in California and the District of Columbia.. She is fluent in English and Korean and leads the firm’s Korean practice group while managing the entire firm.