Immigration lawyers in District Of Columbia Linchi Liang to Serge Bauer

Firm: L Law Firm PLLC

2001 L Street NW , Washington , District Of Columbia 20036 Zip code: 20036

Practice Areas: Immigration

Passionate and creative business immigration attorney with judicial clerkship experience and training in the entertainment industry. Eager to help talents from all over the world establish their career by obtaining immigration benefits to the United States. Received approvals for clients in diverse backgrounds, such as performing artists, STEM professionals, pilots, and entrepreneurs.

Firm: Pantz Immigration Law PLLC

800 Connecticut Avenue N.W. , Washington , District Of Columbia 20006 Zip code: 20006

Practice Areas: Immigration

My practice focuses on business immigration law matters with an emphasis on technology startup companies and entrepreneurs setting up operations in the United States. I am advising domestice and international corporation on retaining international talents as well on relocation of corporate executives, managers and key employees to the United States.. I have extensive experience representing domestic and international clients in all types of business nonimmigrant petitions and applications before the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) and the U.S. Department of State (DOS). I routinely counsel clients’ management teams and human-resource executives on non-immigrant work visas, employment-based immigrant visas, and employment visas based on bi-national treaties executed by the U.S. with respect to the exchange of trade (E-1 Treaty Trader) or investments in a U.S. business (E-2 Treaty Investor). I also advise entrepreneurs and high-tech start-up companies on non-immigrant work visas for foreign key-personnel.

Firm: Immigration Counsel PLLC

1150 Connecticut Ave NW , Washington , District Of Columbia 20036 Zip code: 20036

Practice Areas: Immigration

Firm: Benach Collopy, LLP

1333 H Street NW , Washington , District Of Columbia 20005 Zip code: 20005

Practice Areas: Immigration

Attorney Sarah B. Pitney was admitted to the Florida Bar in April of 2016, after graduating as one of the top 5 members of her class from the Florida International University College of Law. She is an associate attorney for Benach Collopy, LLP, a private immigration law firm in downtown Washington, D.C. Her practice focuses on family-based immigration, asyolum, removal defense, and LGBTQ+ immigration issues.. Admissions:Florida Bar - 2016U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida - 2016District of Columbia Bar - 2017. Education:Bachelor of Arts - American University - 2010Juris Doctor - Florida International University - 2015. Membership:American Immigration Lawyers Association - 2016Florida Bar Young Lawyers Division - 2016. Awards:FIU Carlos A. Costa Immigration and Human Rights Clinic award for outstanding service in the field of immigration law - 2016

Firm: Ishida Immigration Law PLLC

1725 Eye Street NW , Washington , District Of Columbia 20006 Zip code: 20006

Practice Areas: Immigration

Saori Ishida is the Founder and Managing Attorney of Ishida Immigration Law PLLC. She exclusively practices immigration and nationality law.Ms. Ishida has extensive experience managing various immigration cases affecting businesses, non-profits, entrepreneurs, individuals and families. She has successfully handled non-immigrant visa applications for professionals (H-1B, TN, E-3), inter-company transferees (L-1), treaty traders and investors (E-1, E-2), trainees (H-3, J-1), and persons with extraordinary abilities (O-1). Ms. Ishida has represented clients in PERM/Labor Certification process, immigrant visa petitions, and applications for legal permanent resident status ("green card"). She has also handled waivers of J-1 two-year home residence requirement, national interest waivers and removal defense. Ms. Ishida has a track record of taking on and delivering successful outcomes for matters that were previously denied or faced burdensome Request for Evidence (RFE) from the USCIS. Fluent in Japanese, she has helped Japanese clients navigate through the U.S. immigration system by advising on consular processing, regulatory compliance, as well as immigration consequences of corporate reorganization.Before establishing Ishida Immigration Law, she was an associate attorney at Barnes & Thornburg LLP in Chicago, where she provided strategic advice for corporate and individual clients in U.S. immigration matters. Prior to that, Ms. Ishida practiced immigration law at a boutique firm in Washington, D.C.  Ms. Ishida is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

Firm: Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen and Loewy, LLP

1101 15th Street NW , Washington , District Of Columbia 20005 Zip code: 20005

Practice Areas: Immigration

Firm: Bromberg, Kohler Maya & Maschler, PLLC

2011 Pennsylvania Ave. NW , Washington , District Of Columbia 20006 Zip code: 20006

Practice Areas: Immigration

Firm: Potomac Law Group, PLLC

1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW , Washington , District Of Columbia 20004 Zip code: 20004

Practice Areas: Immigration

Peter F. Asaad is a Partner in Potomac Law Group's Immigration Practice. The focus of Mr. Asaad’s practice is on employment-based immigration matters to secure nonimmigrant and immigrant status for individuals in various categories.Mr. Asaad has over 18 years of experience representing corporate clients and individuals on all business-related and employment-based nonimmigrant visas including H-1B, L-1, E-1/2, O-1 visas, as well as immigrant visas including EB-1, PERM, EB-2, EB-3, NIW, Adjustment of Status, consular processing, and other related matters.Mr. Asaad has been recognized by the American Bar Association (ABA) “as one of the nation’s leading litigators” in the field of immigration law and by the American Bar Foundation (ABF) as a top lawyer in the field among the “top one-third of one percent” of the lawyers in Washington, DC. He is ranked by AVVO, listed as a top Corporate Immigration Lawyer by Who’s Who, and ranked a top-rated AV lawyer by Martindale-Hubbell. He has also been recognized among Washingtonian Magazine’s “Top Lawyers” in immigration law since 2011 and listed in The Best Lawyers in America® 2020-2023: Immigration Law. Mr. Asaad has additional experience in advising individuals with employment and family-based immigration, asylum, deportation, and other immigration matters. Mr. Asaad served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at American University, Washington College of Law, where he taught and developed an advanced course on business immigration. Mr. Asaad is the past president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), DC Chapter, where he furthered the education needs of overtion lawyers. Prior to holding this position, Mr. Asaad served as Co-Chair of the American Bar Association (ABA) Immigration Litigation Committee for several years and served as Chair of the DC Bar Immigration & Human Rights Committee.Partnering with HR professionals and labor and employment law counsel, Mr. Asaad manages the employment eligibility needs of Fortunetions, nonprofit organizations and academic institutions, as well as other large, medium and small companies to develop, day-to-day manage, and effectively streamline immigration and compliance programs.Serving the needs of multinational companies seeking to expand foreign operations into the U.S., Mr. Asaad also focuses on forming subsidiary and affiliate entities and the intra-company transfer visas for executives, managers and essential personnel to lead and support the U.S. entity.Leading the way in the representation of foreign entrepreneurs and start-ups, Mr. Asaad is the architect of the IN2NYC program and former Special Counsel to New York City. On behalf of the Mayor of New York City and the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC), in partnership with the City University of New York (CUNY) and New York University (NYU), he developed and launched IN2NYC, the first municipal visa program in the nation designed to help international entrepreneurs create jobs in the United States. Serving the needs of immigrant entrepreneurs, start-ups, emerging companies and foreign investors, he works closely with individuals to create a pathway toward eligibility and approval for special H-1B cap exception, O-1A extraordinary ability, E-1/E-2 visas and L-1 visas for expanding foreign operations in the U.S., as well as permanent residence under the National Interest Waiver (NIW) and Extraordinary Ability (EB-1) categories.

Firm: Palma Yanni PC

2141 P Street NW. , Washington , District Of Columbia 20037 Zip code: 20037

Practice Areas: Immigration

Firm: Morris H Deutsch, formerly Deutsch, Killea and Eapen

1420 N St NW , Washington, DC , District Of Columbia 20005 Zip code: 20005

Practice Areas: Immigration

Ste 920 , Washington , District Of Columbia 20015 Zip code: 20015

Practice Areas: Immigration

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Firm: Deutsch, Killea and Eapen

1666 Connecticut Avenue, NW , Washington , District Of Columbia 20009 Zip code: 20009

Practice Areas: Immigration

Our immigration lawyers, located in Washington, DC, have more than 60 collective years of experience practicing immigration and nationality law.  We aggressively represent companies in I-9 compliance and in obtaining work authorization for their foreign employees.  We also enjoy working with individual clients, with their myriad life situations, routine or difficult, in need of immigration services.. We are known for being good communicators.  Our clients never have problems getting through to us in a reasonable time, to obtain answers to their questions or just their case status.  Clients have rated us highly in terms of our competence, professional demeanor and the level of care we provide.. Our approach is to schedule an initial consultation, for a minimal fee, to analyze the case, and to determine all available immigration options and possible problems.  We believe in informing clients of all risks and benefits, so they can make informed choices and not just rely on our judgment.  At this stage, we will offer a proposal for the work, detailing all fees and costs, and providing different payment plan options.  Once retained, we work with our clients to prepare and file their applications in the way most likely to succeed.  Most importantly, we do what we say we are going to do.. In the 26 years since Morris Deutsch created the firm, we have helped uncountable people from all walks of life to become permanent residents and later US citizens.  We have helped employers, large and small, with their foreign employees.  We have assisted asylees, refugees, crime victims and abuse victims to remain in the U.S. permanently.  And, we have helped people in trouble to avoid deportation from the U.S.

730 24th Street Nw , Washington , District Of Columbia 20037 Zip code: 20037

Practice Areas: Immigration

Firm: The Law Office of Miguel Palmeiro LLC

3300 Fairfax Dr , Arlington , District Of Columbia 22201 Zip code: 22201

Practice Areas: Immigration

Miguel Palmeiro is an Immigration Attorney Washington, D.C. and Maryland. He manages a firm that takes pride in working closely with clients like you to help you get the personalized justice they deserve in immigration.  He is fluent in Spanish, Portuguese, and French.

Firm: Maggio Kattar Nahajzer & Alexander PC

1800 Massachusetts Ave NW Ste 300 , Washington , District Of Columbia 20036 Zip code: 20036

Practice Areas: Immigration

Meredith Jolie is a Senior Associate at the Washington, D.C. office of Maggio Kattar. She provides strategic counsel to clients on all aspects of business immigration. Her clients range from Fortune 500 corporations to multinational companies to start-ups in a variety of industries such as technology, transportation, engineering, and healthcare. She works with clients to craft plans that ensure mobility of their executives, managers, and specialized knowledge workers. Furthers, she provides skillful and meticulous guidance on all facets of nonimmigrant (or temporary work visas) and immigrant visas (or permanent residency). Meredith has represented clients before the Department of Labor, U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services, Department of State, DHS Asylum Offices, and Federal Immigration Court.. Meredith also has extensive experience successfully representing individual clients in family-based immigration, waivers, asylum, extraordinary ability cases, and complex naturalization matters. Meredith has established herself as a hard-working and thorough attorney that clients can depend on for step-by-step navigation through the ever-changing and highly technical immigration system.. Her passion for immigration law arose out of her volunteer experiences working with children survivors of human trafficking and a genuine desire to help others. Through several non-profit organizations, she continues to provide pro bono legal services for humanitarian relief cases such as asylum and VAWA, advises at Naturalization Workshops, and also tutored students taking citizenship classes.. Meredith volunteers extensively in various roles for the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). For the national AILA organization, she was selected to serve as a Member of the AILA Department of Labor (DOL) Liaison Committee (2020 to 2022), and was a speaker for AILA’s “Blanket L Practice: 2020 Update” presentation. For the Washington, D.C. Chapter of AILA, she has served as a Member of the Washington Customs & Border Protection (CBP) Liaison Committee (2021 to 2022); Washington USCIS Liaison Committee (2018 to 2020); Co-Chair of Citizenship Day Committee (2018 to 2020); Member of the DC Bar Liaison Committee (2017 to 2019); Asylum Office Liaison Committee Member (2017 to 2018); and Co-Chair of Dinner Committee (2015 to 2017). Additionally, she received the Pro Bono Service Award in September 2019 and the AILA DC Chapter award for Pro Bono / Outreach Division Person of the Year in 2019. Finally, Meredith was recognized for her work and added to the "Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America" list.. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Rochester, wherein Meredith was awarded the Irene Grace Bunde Speech Award. This prestigious award is given annually to the most persuasive female speaker at the University of Rochester. Meredith obtained her Juris Doctorate from the University at Buffalo, School of Law. She is currently the Co-Chair of the D.C. Alumni Steering Committee for UB Law (2017 to 2019).

Firm: Clark Hill PLC

1001 Pennsylvania Ave NW , Washington , District Of Columbia 20004 Zip code: 20004

Practice Areas: Immigration

1946 New Hampshire Ave. , Washington , District Of Columbia 20009 Zip code: 20009

Practice Areas: Immigration

Firm: Garfinkel Immigration Law

3025 Daniel LN NW , Washington , District Of Columbia 20015 Zip code: 20015

Practice Areas: Immigration

After more than 15 years advocating and fighting for foreign nationals with full-service contracts, Lynn Garfinkel, has restructured her practice to serve more clients. She is now consulting, on an hourly basis, as needed to guide clients that are working on their own cases. Ms. Garfinkel will review forms, discuss and suggest evidence, and provide tips and guidance on immigration cases. She has experience with temporary and permanent visas (green cards), family and work/employment  based petitions, naturalization issues, waivers, asylum, and deportation defense (also called removal proceedings or immigration court). Ms. Garfinkel has also successfully represents foreign national survivors of abuse petitioning for benefits under the Violence Against Women Act clients and to obtain religious, political, and gender-based asylum for nearly a decade. Ms. Garfinkel has also been helping. Finally, Ms. Garfinkel also successfully represents foreign national survivors of abuse petitioning for benefits under the Violence Against Women Act.. For three years, Garfinkel served as Chair of the Asylum Office Liaison Committee for the American Immigration Lawyers Association, DC Chapter. She is also a member of the Maryland and District of Columbia bars. She previously served as the Vice Chair of the AILA Washington Immigration Court Liaison Committee. Ms. Garfinkel has engaged in volunteer human rights advocacy work for Amnesty International's Mid-Atlantic Regional Office. For five years, she served as the Representative to the Special Initiatives Grant Committee.. Previously, Ms. Garfinkel completed her undergraduate studies at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. Having studied abroad in France and South Korea, she self-designed her undergraduate degree in international development. After working at national organizations advocating for low-income families, she earned her law degree from Northeastern University School of Law in Massachusetts. During law school, she was a teaching assistant and participated in a prisoner's rights and death penalty cert. clinics. As part of her school’s program, she interned at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, the Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division and the Office of the Federal Public Defender for DC.

Firm: Alight Legal PLLC

1455 Pennsylvania Ave NW , Washington , District Of Columbia 20004 Zip code: 20004

Practice Areas: Immigration

I am a human rights activist turned attorney.. My firm represents people escaping persecution, victims of crime and violence, families trying to reunite or trying to keep their family together, and we also assist businesses and professionals achieve their immigration goals.. I am compassionate with my clients, but aggressive with the law while seeking innovative solutions and pushing boundaries in order to provide more protection and opportunities for my clients.

Firm: SERGE BAUER PC

2200 PENNSYLVANIA , Washington , District Of Columbia 20037 Zip code: 20037

Practice Areas: Immigration

Serge Bauer is a founding member of Serge Bauer, P.C with over 20 years of experience of providing immigration services to clients world-wide.  He is admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia, New York State, and New Jersey.  He is also certified to practice law with the U.S. Court of Appeals, the Federal Circuit Court, the U.S. Tax Court, and the U.S. Court of International Trade.  He is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, and he was selected by Washingtonian Magazine as one of the top immigration lawyers in Washington, D.C., "Big Guns: Washington’s Top 800 Lawyers."